Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Shoe chucking - Terrorism at its finest

Pakistan's favourite President Asif Ali Zardari was recently the target of a shoe attack after his speech in Birmingham; the latest trend in protesting inefficient leadership. Authorities claim that it was not quite clear what the man appeared to be protesting, but if I had to wager a guess I'm thinking it was probably something like 'Get off the stage!'

The majority of Mr. Zardari's speech was peppered (as it always is) with realistic and impassioned remembrances to his lately departed wife Benazir Bhutto. Any other topic related to the countries state,
or its recent disasters would of course be an insult to his and his wife's memories. After half an hour of venting his frustrations ('I often ask myself why she had to go') he proceeded to express his explanation as to why he gave his son, a recent college grad, the position of Co-Chairman of the PPP.

Not much of the content in his speech gave an allowance to his behaviour of being on a trip to England while parts of the country was suffering from the floods. His disappearance caused unrest and anger in Pakistan and it might be possible that the shoe was thrown by a man disproving of Mr. Zardari's actions.

Shoe attacks are becoming popular as a way to protest against poor leadership. Though there was no footage of the actual throwing we can all vividly remember the shoe attack against Ex-President Bush during his conference in Baghdad.

With the state of affairs as they are, we might soon anticipate a policy disallowing people to wear shoes in conferences.

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