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| The Twilight Zone (Do-do-do-do....) |
| 12.27.05 (10:33 am) [edit] |
There is still now place on earth quite as insane as Korea. The one thing I have never been able to fathom is that Kim Joe-blow can go on strike, still get paid and wail on cops with various deadly weapons and then go home like nothing happened. To whit;
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200512/kt200512 2717111310440.htm" title="http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200512/kt200512 2717111310440.htm" target="_blank"http://times.hankooki.com/lpa...
[b]President Apologizes for Farmers' Deaths[/b]
[b]Lee Kee-mook, chief superintendent general of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, resigned, taking responsibility for the violence inflicted on the activist farmers.[/b]
This is so absurd it hardly warrants a mention. Note what these idiot farmers even exproted their viloence to Hong Kong and then pulled their indignant routine on the police there, which will not work.
[b]``Had it not been for the violent protest that even involved iron bars, such a tragedy would not have occurred,’’ he lamented. ``The government will make efforts with civil society to map out proper measures to change the demonstration culture of the country[/b]
I wonder how this ever came to pass. If Korea does indeed wish to stop being the laughing stock of Asia it needs to deal harshly with people who arrive at demonstrations armed to the teeth. Being a "civil" society does not mean that you can attack anybody you feel like. What the Korean government has to do is make it public that violent protests will not be tolerated. It is not democratic in any way to try to enforce your agenda on anybody through wailing one some poor 19 year old conscript.
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