SHOOT: Today's heroes don't wear Superman capes, or utility belts, they throw shoes. It's the least citizens can do to demonstrate their disgust for leadership that is self serving when it isn't completely impotent. Shoe throwers of the world unite, and perhaps sooner than later, politicians will feel more alert that what they do, or rather what they fail to do, has consequences with contituents and citizens. As it ought to be.
ISTANBUL – A student journalist threw a shoe at IMF Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Thursday and ran toward the stage shouting "IMF get out!" as the finance official answered questions at a university in Istanbul.
The white sports shoe bounced off another student's head but missed the IMF chief before landing beside him on the speaker's platform. Some students applauded. Strauss-Kahn moved to the side, and a security guard rushed to protect him.
Other guards quickly blocked the man — a student and a journalist with a small left-wing newspaper — from reaching the platform. They pushed him to the floor, covered his mouth with their hands and then dragged him from the hall.
It was the latest copycat shoe protest imitating the shoe attack last year directed at former President George W. Bush by an Iraqi journalist in Baghdad.
"I don't think throwing a shoe involves violence, it has become a symbol in a culture of protest," Aydin said.
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clipped from news.yahoo.com
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