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http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200808/200808290026.html

Rallies Teem With Professional Protesters

An investigation of seven people arrested for throwing bottles of hydrochloric acid at police during a protest near Myeongdong Cathedral on Aug. 9 has revealed that only one of them had a stable job. Another of the seven was an itinerant laborer, and the other five were unemployed. They met during anti-U.S. beef protests in June and formed a group called Passionate Citizens and gave themselves the ranks of �chairman,� �advisor,� �spokesman� and �marksman.� The spokesman for the group was a homeless man living in a park in Yeoido and used a slingshot to fire ball bearings at police. If arrested, they conspired to make false confessions that they had been instructed to do so by the ruling party or a conservative group.
There are professional protesters who appear at each rally, clad in masks and wielding steel pipes as if they had been waiting for such an opportunity. It has been a mystery what kinds of jobs these people had; now the truth is gradually being revealed. On July 26, two riot police were dragged off to Boshingak Pavilion and beaten after being stripped. Police arrested four of the assailants and found that one was a university student, another was an employee at a boarding house, and the remaining two unemployed men in their 20s and 30s. The jobless man in his 30s had been arrested four times for assault at protest rallies since May, but had been released each time. Out of 23 violent protesters who had been arrested at demonstrations, 17 are said to have criminal records. Eight of them had more than five prior convictions. People are even saying that homeless people were no longer spotted in their usual haunts since the mad cow protests escalated.

Among the people who drove around in trucks with loudspeakers during the beef protests inciting the public to storm the presidential office were many leading officials of progressive civic groups that were created when pro-North Korean and leftwing factions joined hands. The co-leaders of these civic groups are people who have been rushing to each and every anti-U.S. rally -- over a U.S. firing range, the death of two schoolgirls under an armored U.S. vehicle, and the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement.

In the early stages of the beef protests, there were many people who were genuinely worried that the government had not done its job properly to protect the health of the public. In retrospect, these people with genuine worries were used by anti-U.S. and pro-North Korean factions that planned the protest rallies and by disgruntled homeless and jobless people and ex-convicts who stood in the front lines of the rallies to assault the police.

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Where's "too much E cat" guy, I liked him better.