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| Your Thoughts on the Police and Laws. |
| Draconian. The Police are Jack Booted Thugs and the laws here consitute serious human rights violations. |
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| Anarchy in the ROK. What police? Whar Laws? This place makes Deadwood look like 1984. One big accident waiting to happen. |
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| This is Paradise. Why, just the other day I drank a bunch of soju and fired off roman candles at the playground and nothing happened. |
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| This is how it should be. People walking in step. Kids are still beaten. The Good ol' ways. |
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| Meh. Things are okay here. Tweak things here or there, but its alright. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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I enjoy the relaxed attitude to social vices here......Koreans seem to cherish the ways in which they blow off some steam and they don't want the cops to interfere there.....I'm talking about smoking, drinking, ladies of the night etc.....
I do wish the roads were more controlled.......one thing that would take a lot of effort and a long time, but is pretty badly needed, is to turn around this culture among Korean drivers that bus, taxi and motorcycle delivery drivers can do what the hell they like......they should follow the rules of the road without exception. A bus driver charging through a red light should be stopped and ticketed.
My only serious worry about living in Korea is that my wife and child will be hurt in a traffic accident........given that Korea is pretty much at or near the top spot every year in the OECD ranking for traffic deaths, it's a legit worry. |
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WadRUG'naDoo
Joined: 15 Jun 2010
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 3:09 am Post subject: |
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In Korea, the police can arrest you if you're "involved" in a fight. You could do nothing, brought to the police station, let go with no charge, and still get an official letter from the prosecutor's office telling you that a "judge" will make a decision whether you'll be fined or not. Without being charged with anything! Then you get a bill in the mail for at least 1 million won.
For doing NOTHING. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 4:26 am Post subject: |
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| Summer Wine wrote: |
| We won WW2 and still ended up introducing many of the same laws that the Gestapo created. |
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In Korea, the police can arrest you if you're "involved" in a fight. You could do nothing, brought to the police station, let go with no charge, and still get an official letter from the prosecutor's office telling you that a "judge" will make a decision whether you'll be fined or not. Without being charged with anything! Then you get a bill in the mail for at least 1 million won.
For doing NOTHING. |
Okay, I guess I'll be the first to ask. Can you provide a citation for these assertions? And I'm not talking about winning World War II. |
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WadRUG'naDoo
Joined: 15 Jun 2010
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 4:43 am Post subject: |
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| CentralCali wrote: |
| Summer Wine wrote: |
| We won WW2 and still ended up introducing many of the same laws that the Gestapo created. |
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In Korea, the police can arrest you if you're "involved" in a fight. You could do nothing, brought to the police station, let go with no charge, and still get an official letter from the prosecutor's office telling you that a "judge" will make a decision whether you'll be fined or not. Without being charged with anything! Then you get a bill in the mail for at least 1 million won.
For doing NOTHING. |
Okay, I guess I'll be the first to ask. Can you provide a citation for these assertions? And I'm not talking about winning World War II. |
I didn't do a thing and I got a fine for 1.4 million won in the mail. I wasn't even charged with anything. They just decided to fine me. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 11:50 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, right. You did nothing. And all those people in prison are innocent, right? Let's put the request for information in a different way: What was the legal basis declared for the government to levy that fine? |
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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Back home (NZ), the best that dude could hope for would be a face full of pepper spray or 10,000 volts. |
In the U.S., if you're resisting arrest and you happen to be a 17 year old black girl, you could expect a punch in the face, followed by national outrage, rallies led by Al Sharpton and/or Jesse Jackson and then eventually a multi-million dollar settlement:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts2638
Rodney King! Rodney King! (Notice all the fellow Americans videotaping the arrest for sharing with the media.) |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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| WadRUG'naDoo wrote: |
| CentralCali wrote: |
| Summer Wine wrote: |
| We won WW2 and still ended up introducing many of the same laws that the Gestapo created. |
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| WadRUG'naDoo wrote: |
In Korea, the police can arrest you if you're "involved" in a fight. You could do nothing, brought to the police station, let go with no charge, and still get an official letter from the prosecutor's office telling you that a "judge" will make a decision whether you'll be fined or not. Without being charged with anything! Then you get a bill in the mail for at least 1 million won.
For doing NOTHING. |
Okay, I guess I'll be the first to ask. Can you provide a citation for these assertions? And I'm not talking about winning World War II. |
I didn't do a thing and I got a fine for 1.4 million won in the mail. I wasn't even charged with anything. They just decided to fine me. |
So you were just minding your own business and one day you got a fine in the mailbox for doing nothing? |
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NYC_Gal
Joined: 08 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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| I saw a traffic stop in front of my building a few months back. They stopped quite a few drunk drivers. I liked that. |
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Summer Wine
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: Next to a River
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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A recent Aussie Law.
http://www.ag.gov.au/agd/WWW/nationalsecurity.nsf/AllDocs/A41A86E81E52A0B2CA25710A001A7EEA?OpenDocument
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a) an extension of the definition of a terrorist organisation to enable listing of organisations that advocate terrorism;
b) a new regime to allow for �control orders� that will allow for the overt close monitoring of terrorist suspects who pose a risk to the community;
c) a new police preventative detention regime that will allow detention of a person for up to 48 hours without charge where it is reasonably necessary to prevent a terrorist act or to preserve evidence of such an act;
d) updated sedition offences to cover those who urge violence or assistance to Australia�s enemies;
e) strengthened offences of financing of terrorism by better coverage of the collection of funds for terrorist activity;
f) a new regime of stop, question, search and seize powers that will be exercisable at airports and other Commonwealth places to prevent or respond to terrorism; |
A understanding of past Gestapo rules
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Who would get arrested?
The list was intentionally expansive. Anybody considered to be a political threat was arrested; |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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| You seem to misunderstand the term political. |
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Summer Wine
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: Next to a River
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| Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 5:36 am Post subject: |
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| You seem to misunderstand the term political. |
Explain.
If a person has another political position and its considered criminal.
Do you know that my country trains to put down civil disobediance as much as it trains to defend against another country invading it.
Political is not an easy term, but Intelligence police officers watching and taking notes on a Green parties speech even when they didn't advocate violence in the speech would seem more in agreement with what the Gestapo might have done than what I would expect my government should.
I understand politics and political issues, I don't understand sports or give a damm, but politics I do understand. Please explain how I don't understand and please make it relevant to my country, not what your country would do.
I am not an American, so as long as they don't step on my turf I dont follow thier political style unless it makes sense, |
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Mariella713
Joined: 22 May 2010
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| Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 5:37 am Post subject: |
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| The Gipkik wrote: |
| Seems that becoming a police officer here doesn't have the same glamor and sex appeal that it has in some countries, which I like. |
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nzbradly78
Joined: 23 Mar 2009
Location: Czech Republic
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| Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 7:43 am Post subject: |
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I think, from what I've heard of the laws, that they aren't the problem, for the most part. The lax enforcement and the institutionalised aweful driving habits are what need to be turned around. I know all about New Zealand drivers, but we're not that bad!
Korean immigration law on the other hand...well, they're probably WAY too many threads floating around to bring that up. We're all aware how messed up they are. |
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WadRUG'naDoo
Joined: 15 Jun 2010
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:03 am Post subject: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| WadRUG'naDoo wrote: |
| CentralCali wrote: |
| Summer Wine wrote: |
| We won WW2 and still ended up introducing many of the same laws that the Gestapo created. |
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| WadRUG'naDoo wrote: |
In Korea, the police can arrest you if you're "involved" in a fight. You could do nothing, brought to the police station, let go with no charge, and still get an official letter from the prosecutor's office telling you that a "judge" will make a decision whether you'll be fined or not. Without being charged with anything! Then you get a bill in the mail for at least 1 million won.
For doing NOTHING. |
Okay, I guess I'll be the first to ask. Can you provide a citation for these assertions? And I'm not talking about winning World War II. |
I didn't do a thing and I got a fine for 1.4 million won in the mail. I wasn't even charged with anything. They just decided to fine me. |
So you were just minding your own business and one day you got a fine in the mailbox for doing nothing? |
Yup. Welcome to Korea. Luckily, I was leaving Korea anyway. I said, "Screw you" and left. |
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The Gipkik
Joined: 30 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 3:33 am Post subject: |
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| Mariella713 wrote: |
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| Seems that becoming a police officer here doesn't have the same glamor and sex appeal that it has in some countries, which I like. |
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Hmmm. Well, anyways, here's a small list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_police_television_dramas
You work it out. |
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