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Greek Protester Throws Shoe at Prime MinisterPosted on Sep 11, 2010
Possibly taking a cue about resistance from the beloved Iraqi journalist who chucked his shoes at George W. Bush back in 2008, a 49-year-old doctor has thrown a piece of his own footwear at Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou in protest of the government’s economic austerity measures. —JCL
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By Shamemen, September 12, 2010 at 6:47 am Link to this comment
I hope you know what you are supporting. Papandreou’s government is a socialist government that inherited a budget crisis from decades of corruption and tax evasion by today’s loudest protesters: the medical doctors and the right wing party that calls itself “New Democracy”. Bribe-taking, collusion with pharmaceutical/medical manufacturers to overcharge the government and tax evasion run rampant and have been documented the last few months in the inernational press. Yet, if somebody appropriates a jesture associated with a justified protest (the Iraqi shoe thrower), you immediately assume that the usurper is also just!
Report thisBy Alfred di Genis, September 12, 2010 at 1:12 am Link to this comment
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That this silly non-event, Papandreou was blocks away when this right wing extremist “threw” his shoe, is a headline reduces Truthdig to a desperate corporate media wannabe. Pity.
Report thisBy Money is funny, September 11, 2010 at 8:51 pm Link to this comment
I hope they had steel tows like mine.
Report thisBy Robespierre115, September 11, 2010 at 1:15 pm Link to this comment
As Chris Hedges stated in a column here a few months back: “The Greeks get it!”
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