I found this picture of a group of… protesters? … who were snapped walking around the World Trade Organization’s trade talks in Hong Kong yesterday. They’re from relief organization OXFAM. Apparently they are mimicking:
(From L-R) British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, U.S. President George W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and German chancellor Angela Merkel.
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(Bobby Yip/Reuters)
They were walking past the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, venue for the Sixth World Trade Organisation Ministerial Conferences, during an anti-globalization protest December 14, 2005.
But when you zoom-in on the Paul Martin head, he looks a little, well, “freaked-out”, almost as if he knows he’s in trouble in oh so many ways. So I was wondering if they were trying to “capture the moment”, as it were, and trying to make it representative of how he might look now, during, say, our elections.
It reminded me of this photo taken last summer during some contentious votes in the House, and another one during Halloween:
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