Student who threw shoe at Chinese PM cleared of any offence

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[SIZE=+1]Student who threw shoe at Chinese PM cleared of any offence[/SIZE]
China National News
Wednesday 3rd June, 2009
(ANI)

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London, June 3: Martin Jahnke the student who threw a shoe at Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has been cleared of any offence, after the Cambridge Magistrates' Court found him not guilty in a two-day trial.

The district judge said that there was insufficient evidence to prove Jahnke guilty of causing harassment or distress to the Chinese Prime Minister.

District Judge Ken Sheraton told Jahnke that the not guilty verdict should not be seen as an indication that the court condoned his behaviour.

"I am very pleased with the result. I would like to thank all those members of the public who have supported me, including the Chinese community. I hope now attention can move away from me to the real issue of human rights in China," Jahnke said after the hearing.

Jahanke a medical researcher at Cambridge University had disrupted a speech being given by the Chinese Prime Minister on April 2, 2009.

He had blown a whistle and termed the Chinese leader a "dictator", saying the university had "prostituted" itself by allowing Wen Jiabao to speak, he had then thrown his left training shoe towards the stage, The Telegraph reported.

 

[Niflmir]

Shoe throwing is the new scathing wit amongst reporters, apparently.

 

[Scott Free]

He should send a bill for the shoe to the state.

 

[SteveBee]

There are obviously better ways of voicing your opinion but at the same time at least he chose a relatively harmless projectile to fire at the stage! :lol:

 

[Scott Free]

There are obviously better ways of voicing your opinion

I hear this claim all the time but I would love to know the reasoning behind it. People say protest shouldn't be violent but ignore the fact that government is rule by force and routinely uses violence to enforce edicts. The only reason democracies and freedom exist (to the extent it does) is because of violence or its threat (see the French revolution).

So really what is the warrant for the claim? I'm really curious because it sounds like preprogrammed double think to me..

 

[YukonJack]

Throwing shoes is obvoiusly the best thing idiots are able to do.

No valid questions, no valid opinions, no valid and justifiable existence.

The best example Muslims can show to the decadent Western world.

 

[Cliffy]

I hear this claim all the time but I would love to know the reasoning behind it. People say protest shouldn't be violent but ignore the fact that government is rule by force and routinely uses violence to enforce edicts. The only reason democracies and freedom exist (to the extent it does) is because of violence or its threat (see the French revolution).

So really what is the warrant for the claim? I'm really curious because it sounds like preprogrammed double think to me..

...or brainwashing, which is after all the foundation of democracy. Every form of government relies on brainwashing (propaganda) to maintain its strangle hold on the population, just like religion.

 

[Scott Free]

Throwing shoes is obvoiusly the best thing idiots are able to do.

No valid questions, no valid opinions, no valid and justifiable existence.

The best example Muslims can show to the decadent Western world.

It is valid though because it demonstrates people are pissed off and next time it might be a bullet. It is up to the ruling elites to figure out what people are upset about if they don't want to lose their heads. It's the cost of wanting to be the boss of everybody.

 

[Cliffy]

Throwing shoes is obvoiusly the best thing idiots are able to do.

No valid questions, no valid opinions, no valid and justifiable existence.

The best example Muslims can show to the decadent Western world.

I thought strapping on a bomb was their preferred method of expressing their dislike of all things Western.:lol:

 

[Scott Free]

...or brainwashing, which is after all the foundation of democracy. Every form of government relies on brainwashing (propaganda) to maintain its strangle hold on the population, just like religion.

Absolutely!

Foucault calls it confinement technology.

 

[YukonJack]

"I thought strapping on a bomb was their preferred method of expressing their dislike of all things Western."

Throwing shoes is just an attempt by the murderous and homicidal Muslims to show that they have a gentle, human side.

 

[L Gilbert]

Whatever happened to the neat practise of mooning people you thought were not worthy of respect?

 

[Cliffy]

Whatever happened to the neat practise of mooning people you thought were not worthy of respect?

It appears to be a lost art form. There is also the pressed ham (pressing your butt against glass) or the waffle (pressing your butt against a screen). Classics from the sixties! :lol:

 

[YukonJack]

"Whatever happened to the neat practise of mooning people you thought were not worthy of respect."

Your question proves that even the most despicable Muslims who are ready and willing to kill innocent people are still above, morally, of those politically correct wretches, who think that America (or by extention, the West) is always the first to blame.

 

[Niflmir]

Whatever happened to the neat practise of mooning people you thought were not worthy of respect?

Anal sex caught on and it became more sensual than sensational.

 

[L Gilbert]

"Whatever happened to the neat practise of mooning people you thought were not worthy of respect."

Your question proves that even the most despicable Muslims who are ready and willing to kill innocent people are still above, morally, of those politically correct wretches, who think that America (or by extention, the West) is always the first to blame.

Please explain how my joke proves anything?

 

[L Gilbert]

Anal sex caught on and it became more sensual than sensational.

lol Oh right. Short term memory loss.

 

[L Gilbert]

It appears to be a lost art form. There is also the pressed ham (pressing your butt against glass) or the waffle (pressing your butt against a screen). Classics from the sixties! :lol:

hehehe