Most of us are familiar with having to pass through a metal detector to make sure no one is carrying a gun, or other lethal weapon, before going in to listen to a controversial speaker. Carry bags may even be confiscated to make sure you are not carrying any rotten tomatoes, eggs or fruit. The time has come though, when you will see rows upon rows of shoes lined up at the doorway, like outside a mosque, if the shoe-throwing fettish gets any further out of hand. Either people will begin carrying an extra shoe, or you will also see many one-shoed people hobbling home after a public meeting. Shoe shops will do a roaring trade either way.

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, while speaking at Cambridge University in England, was called a dictator, as an over enthusiastic protester flung his shoe at the visitor. “How can the university prostitute itself with this dictator?” was yelled from the back of the crowd. The police arrested the shoe-thrower on suspicion of a public order offence.

Mr Wen described the incident as ‘despicable’. China decried the event as deplorable.

This follows the incident of the irate Iraqi journalist who threw a shoe at United States President George W. Bush. Mr Bush later joked about the incident, while the journalist is facing a charge of aggression against a foreign head of state. If convicted he faces up to 15 years imprisonment.

A group of around 100 protesters assembled outside the White House on the last day of President Bush’s administration, armed with mountains of shoes. “Don’t hit me,” grinned one of the officers behind the White House fence, as shoes rained down around him. Thousands joined the protesters and stopped to pick up a shoe and throw it over the fence. “It’s not that we hate Bush, we just hate what he has done to the country,” one protester said. Many felt it was a great way to get the Bush era out of their system. It took a small truck to haul all the shoes away.

However, shoetime really began with Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev when in 1956 he pounded the podium with his shoe, declaring that the US economy would bury capitalism.

Krushchev followed this with another outburst at the United Nations when he got angry with the Philippine delegation calling them simply a stooge of the US.

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