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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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 Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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Were these people in question unknowing of the law? You are being vague at best, unless you have posted details on another thread.
If they knew the law, flaunted it and called the gov't's bluff, then they'll get what's coming to them. I see no nobility in going to jail just to make a point. But to each their own.
I don't agree with punishing any form of expression, but people need to use their heads. It's like the pot crusaders back in Canada smoking weed in public and getting angry when they're jailed or fined. DO IT IN YOUR HOUSE, BUDDY!!
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| jinju wrote: |
| Wasnt me who said they should be locked up. I dont have issues with punks or other subcultures. My issues have always been with the leftist administration. |
Alright then, not locked up but blacklisted and shut down. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Ilsanman wrote: |
Were these people in question unknowing of the law? You are being vague at best, unless you have posted details on another thread.
If they knew the law, flaunted it and called the gov't's bluff, then they'll get what's coming to them. I see no nobility in going to jail just to make a point. But to each their own.
I don't agree with punishing any form of expression, but people need to use their heads. It's like the pot crusaders back in Canada smoking weed in public and getting angry when they're jailed or fined. DO IT IN YOUR HOUSE, BUDDY!! |
The only real law broken was done by those two guys on that lame music show a couple years ago. There are also a few tattoo artists around, as well as the occasional misdemeanor. But do you really think a blacklist is about stopping crime? It's much more useful at quashing freedom of expression. I don't know how you can be for a blacklist and against punishing expression.
Also, I've mentioned before that my father-in-law is someone Jinju hates. He spent three years in prison in the '70s for owning books, and recently has exposed several high-profile Koreans who betrayed their country to imperial Japan, including Park Junghee who fought against his countrymen in China for the Japanese. If Park Geunhye ever becomes president, there's a real threat that she'd have him locked up again. |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 3:49 am Post subject: |
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Well if he has exposed the Japanese Collaberators, he has my support.
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| Ilsanman wrote: |
Were these people in question unknowing of the law? You are being vague at best, unless you have posted details on another thread.
If they knew the law, flaunted it and called the gov't's bluff, then they'll get what's coming to them. I see no nobility in going to jail just to make a point. But to each their own.
I don't agree with punishing any form of expression, but people need to use their heads. It's like the pot crusaders back in Canada smoking weed in public and getting angry when they're jailed or fined. DO IT IN YOUR HOUSE, BUDDY!! |
The only real law broken was done by those two guys on that lame music show a couple years ago. There are also a few tattoo artists around, as well as the occasional misdemeanor. But do you really think a blacklist is about stopping crime? It's much more useful at quashing freedom of expression. I don't know how you can be for a blacklist and against punishing expression.
Also, I've mentioned before that my father-in-law is someone Jinju hates. He spent three years in prison in the '70s for owning books, and recently has exposed several high-profile Koreans who betrayed their country to imperial Japan, including Park Junghee who fought against his countrymen in China for the Japanese. If Park Geunhye ever becomes president, there's a real threat that she'd have him locked up again. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 5:14 am Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| Also, I've mentioned before that my father-in-law is someone Jinju hates. He spent three years in prison in the '70s for owning books |
Nobody is put in jail just for books, it depends what kinds of books.
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| and recently has exposed several high-profile Koreans who betrayed their country to imperial Japan, including Park Junghee who fought against his countrymen in China for the Japanese. If Park Geunhye ever becomes president, there's a real threat that she'd have him locked up again. |
Why are people like your father in law unable to see that without PCH they would be living in squalor very much like in North Korea? |
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Xerxes
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Location: Down a certain (rabbit) hole, apparently
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| Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:44 am Post subject: |
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Amazing how Korea stayed on track economically even with an inept president as Roh (I mean, it could have been much much worse), but with the elections coming up, we have no idea what the candidates' platforms are (except for the dubious "7-4-7" wish list of LMB).
And then, the two scandals of this Kim Kyung-jun, LMB's alleged partner-in-crime, being extradited JIT literally days before the election and before any balanced view of the whole mess can be made and of the Samsung bribing most of the chief state prosecutors and most likely Samsung having donated illegal political funds to Roh Mu Hyun, Lee Hweh Chang, the whole of the GNP, probably many many more. Importantly, Samsung has (so far) not donated to LMB and the latter is using that to threaten Roh, just as Roh is threatening LMB with this extradition. Substantive political debate!
This Kim Kyung-jun fella refuses to be extradited for months and then suddenly decides that he wants to tell the world his story just weeks from the election. Sounds as if Roh Mu Hyun is playing his last of his many Aces up his sleeve to get another communist in the Blue House.
The debates between Park Gyun Hye and LMB were a series of accusations and nothing substantive on issues and their platforms.
Talk about a zero-sum game. I think I'll just go play a skins game with Chun Do-hwan for a couplla million...dollars. 
Despite Park Gyun Hye's doe-eyed ideology and political inexperience and shocking ignorance of issues, maybe she would have been the better candidate, after all. Korea certainly could do without another law man, like Roh and at the other end of the political spectrum, Lee Hweh Chang.
Slim pickin's. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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| jinju wrote: |
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| Also, I've mentioned before that my father-in-law is someone Jinju hates. He spent three years in prison in the '70s for owning books |
Nobody is put in jail just for books, it depends what kinds of books.
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Well obviously they were banned books.
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| and recently has exposed several high-profile Koreans who betrayed their country to imperial Japan, including Park Junghee who fought against his countrymen in China for the Japanese. If Park Geunhye ever becomes president, there's a real threat that she'd have him locked up again. |
Why are people like your father in law unable to see that without PCH they would be living in squalor very much like in North Korea? |
Actually, my father-in-law was living in squalor because of Park Junghee. He was in prison. My wife and her family were living in poverty, meanwhile. |
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