Comments on: Shoes, Snark, Suffering: Whatever Happened to Muntadar al-Zaidi?

By: gbsavatar

gbsavatar — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:50:38 +0000

“Oh, I’m never funny. Often the world is, though.”

The world is humorous almost exclusively in a very dark way.

By: acquarius74

acquarius74 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:55:07 +0000

Maybe a better idea would be to show a shoe-throwing logo in our e-mails to congress-critters when protesting proposed or passed legislation, i.e., the recent disgusting vote of support for Israel’s assault on Gaza; bail-outs and terms of same (or lack of); more aid and military arsenals to Israel; stationing of troops on US soil for crowd control; on and on…..

Is a picture in any way a chargeable offense? Gotta watch out for that…

By: acquarius74

acquarius74 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:43:04 +0000

pup34: We should follow the example of the London protesters who threw so many shoes at the American Embassy there. I’d like to see the steps to the U.S. capitol totally covered in shoes in protest of Congress’s overwhelming vote of support for Israel’s assault on Gaza which is inhumane as conducted.

By: lesserdevil

lesserdevil — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:27:33 +0000

Thank you for all your work, Thers.

As for me, I haven’t forgotten al-Zaidi. I’m working out legal details of my own situation in the hopes of going public with my story and my campaign against torture, without the comfort of anonymity. I was very much tortured here in the United States, and railroaded on felony charges as a result of my “confession.” I’ve been too frightened to use my own name, but I believe soon my situation will be safe enough to speak out. I can easily say that al-Zaidi’s courage contributed to my drive.

Fuck the people that made all these things happen. Fuck ‘em. I want to see them in jail. I want to see accountability. I want them to face the justice they denied so many innocent people. I pray I will live to see such a thing.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:35:10 +0000

pw upstairs

By: Loo Hoo.

Loo Hoo. — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:33:34 +0000

Rightio. We all need to send them on the same day.

Wasn’t it in March that the Iraq invasion began? National Shoe Day?

By: TexBetsy

TexBetsy — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:27:24 +0000

Sleep well Thers.

By: wobblybits

wobblybits — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:25:41 +0000

boa noite thers

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:25:37 +0000

g’nite thers

By: newtonusr

newtonusr — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:25:34 +0000

nite thers