Gabriele Zamparini is an independent filmmaker and freelance writer living in London. He’s the producer and director of the documentary series "XXI CENTURY" and author of American Voices of Dissent (Paradigm Publishers, Colorado, July 2005) (see: http://thecatsdream.com/ ).
Gabriele Zamparini on shoe-throwing Iraqi hero Muntazer al-Zaidi and “shoes for all” those complicit in the commission and denial of the Iraqi genocide (2008): “When Muntazer al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist, shouted, "It is the farewell kiss, you dog" to Bush and threw him his shoes durign anewsconfercvne in Baghdad, the curtain of hypocrisy fell and the ugly emperor stood naked in front of the world.
Those shoes however were not aimed only to a man who should be - by his own standards - hanged, together with his entire junta of mass murderers; the Iraqi hero hit to the face all those responsible for the Iraq genocide and its ongoing denial; an endless army of politicians, diplomats, generals, businessmen, journalists, intellectuals and pimps who've helped to carry out the crime of the century. Shoes for all!
Shoes for the United Nations that instead of protecting one of its members from the supreme international crime that organization has been founded to prevent, collaborated with the occupation and its crimes.
Shoes also for the lib-left intelligentsia, the anti-war movement's politburo, the human rights paladins and the court of eunuchs who have worked as gatekeeper of dissent and helped to sell the products of the crime of the century; the supporters of the "political process", of the sectarian Quisling government, of the militias of drillers and all those who rejoiced for the capture and lynching of Saddam Hussein and his government. Shoes for all!
Shoes for Human Rights Watch that contributed to the propaganda campaign that made possible the invasion of Iraq, rejoiced and praised the US occupation for the capture of its president and stil keeps denying the Iraqi genocide.
Shoes for Iraq Body Count that's made possible the denial of the Iraq genocide by its perpetrators and their propaganda apparatus.” [1].
[1]. Gabriele Zamparini, “Shoes for all!”, Global Research, 17 December 2008: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11424 .