[Peace-discuss] Please please please let this be accurate...

[Robert Naiman]

I read somewhere in the last few days that when he got the assignment
to cover the press conference, he went home to change his shoes - so
that the shoes would be Iraqi shoes.

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Neil Parthun <lennybrucefan at gmail.com> wrote:
> While the shoe throwing was/is embarrassing for Georgie and the rest of his
> murderous cabal, I am disheartened by the glorification of increased graft
> present in this upsurge of potential sales.  Also, I'm left wondering about
> the labor conditions that the cobbler uses to make the shoes given such an
> increase in demand.
> I also find it hilarious from the article that some British and American
> companies have placed orders to make a profit off of people who will buy the
> shoes.  Show your resistance to the US by purchasing symbolic commodities
> that will further the profit margins of the imperial powers one resists?
> Live without dead time,
>      Neil
>  With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it;
> I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful because that's what
> really happens.
> [fannie lou hamer, 1917-1977]
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