Lambut is all for shoes, personally. It was disappointing to hear of the three year sentence handed down to the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at George Dubya. The story was funny when we first heard it. An educated Arab bloke, with a press pass mind you, so overcome by frustration, that he took his shoes off and threw them at the world’s alpha male. But, three years in an Iraqi prison is no joke. Three years in one of our prisons wouldn’t do you much good, but, there? I doubt if many of us soft, well fed, air-conditioned, desk-driving, Kiwi occidentals would survive.We don’t know how much influence the US occupying forces could have had on the Iraqi court, probably none, but in any event, it’s a damn shame. Sadly, we have become accustomed to terrifyingly violent protest from that part of the world. So, any efforts by our Semitic brethren to release political frustration in symbolic and non-fatal protest should be heartily encouraged by politically mature peppercorn punishment.
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