Shoes thrown to protest Bush

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25204128-12377,00.html

THREE Canadians were arrested and others threw shoes in protest against George W. Bush today when he gave his first post-presidential speech in western Canada's oil patch.

The footwear was tossed at an effigy of the 43rd US president outside a Calgary conference centre where Mr Bush was to speak to 1500 people at a luncheon, said Colette Lemieux of the Canadian Peace Alliance.

Some 200 protesters from across the country had gathered for the demonstration against Mr Bush's invasion of Iraq and rendition of terror suspects, she said.

They traded insults with guests lined up around the building, and "three people were taken away by police", she said. "It was a heated rally, but not a violent rally."


Protests greet Bush's first speech as ex-president
"But it's this crowd that gratifies me even more," Ceci said of the demonstrators. "Just to see Calgarians interested, aware and just kind of speaking up, and speaking up for things anti-war."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090317/ts_nm/us_bush_canada

You can't throw shoes at an effigy?

It will never fly in court I would think.

I'm just sayin.