Shoes and Jokes
l AFP has reported from Costarica that the Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, joked to reporters Wednesday, ‘Don’t throw any shoes..He was talking to the media just three days after an Iraqi journalist became famous for launching his footwear at the US president, George W Bush, in Baghdad. Lula’s comment, delivered with a smile, prompted laughter from the press pack covering a Latin American summit in an exclusive beachside resort in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia. ‘It’s really hot here,’ Lula, a plain-speaking former union leader, went on. ‘If you take off your shoes, Bahia’s heat means you’ll stink up the place.’ Brazilian president was joking but in our view, it is no longer a matter of joke, it has become a real probability in future against dictators, corrupt and cruel leaders and human rights violators. It has become a new weapon for protest against leasers who are not within easy reach of the people. Shoe throwing is almost normal in street demonstrations . Such shoe missiles have never been used in press conferences of the presidents or prime ministers. Leaders should take lesson and should be more careful in future .They should not take our suggestion as joke -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.552 / Virus Database: 270.9.19/1857 - Release Date: 12/19/2008 10:09 AM -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
