Canadians throw shoes to protest Bush

Why, no, they don’t have anything better to do.

OTTAWA (AFP) — Three Canadians were arrested and others threw shoes in protest against George W. Bush on Tuesday 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 center where Bush was to speak to some 1,500 people at a luncheon, said Colette Lemieux of the Canadian Peace Alliance.

Lemieux had a message for Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Harry Reid:

“It doesn’t matter that he is no longer president,” she added. “A bank robber who stops holding up banks can and must still be prosecuted for his crimes.” The same applies for Bush, she said.

Pelosi and Reid shouldn’t just shrug the idea off: it would at least be a distraction from their banana-peel gyrations on the economy.