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[Bondrock]

[archaeologist5]

But allow me to point out to you the smoking gun in my hand that supports my argument.

Most of you seem to promote and side with the CRC requirement and have done so for years and if you recall there was a lot of discussion in the issue and after that requirement was passed a very strange thing took place on almost all the discussion boards for western teachers.

Now I do not care if anyone here did or didn't do this but what took place was basically a travesty. We had westerners tell newbies how to side step the very requirement they supported.

NO ONE took the time, as I recall, to tell any of those newbies that what they were being old was wrong. They were told to keep it quiet. It was quite common for veterans of this amd other boards to lay it out for the newbies.

So don't come riding on some high horse like the self-righteous people you think you are and try to cram the 'you are better than me' speeches down my throat. You aren't.

As for me this discussion is over. Some people just do not know how to discuss like gentlemen nor can they be honest. In reading your posts I saw how you represented my words dishonestly and frankly none of you have any right to demand anything in Korea.

[archaeologist5]

One final word.

You guys lost and could not defend your position so you went to some minute nothing to do with the topic of discussion point that means absolutely zero.

You should be ashamed and embarrassed with yourselves. The tact that you took was childish dribble and you know it. You are just angry because you have had it pointed out to you that you backed the wrong horse.

But I am out of the discussion on CRCs because those with children are unrealistic and think they get to be dictators to everyone else. Discussing with such people is impossible for their emotions influence their thinking and lead them to say things they shouldn't.

People deserve second chances because that is the right thing to do even if it allows them to be in a classroom because not everyone with a conviction is a pedophile/kidnapper/thief/ murderer in hiding.

[knee-highs]

[archaeologist5]

[NYC_Gal 2.0]

Thou doth protest too much. Skeletons you'd like to keep hidden, Archie boy?

[PatrickBateman]

Sounds like a real piece of work.

Hopefully he gets some similar treatment in prison.

[Captain Corea]

Archie gets schooled, and then he bows out … talking about bananas and oranges. Typical.

Archie, you can't vote in Korea, right? I can. For some reason Korean law allows me to vote - thus I get to vote on education policy and the like.

You asked what right I have - the F5 gives me that right.

But you're welcome to keep stammering on regarding this topic - everyone is getting quite the chuckle out of you. But remember, if you can talk about this topic because "Korea has freedom of speech", then all foreigners here can do the same on a variety of topics.

It's a two way street. It flows both ways.

[knee-highs]

[sendittheemail]

Actually, the Korean media blowing this story up wouldn't help ANYONE avoid being molested, as the Korean media cannot name him in their reports ANYWAY due to their ridiculous anti-defamation laws. Remember, he has not yet been convicted of anything (yes, I know that he supposedly made an admission of guilt, and yes I personally think he is guilty).

Any Korean paper publishing this story would simply say "Former English teacher "A" was arrested in Cambodia for paying a child for sex". Meanwhile, instead of focusing their efforts on keeping Foreigner "A" out of the country, the media/klown citizens/interest groups/xenophobes are going to use the shotgun approach and push more ridiculous laws that squeeze the 99.9% who are not and have never been child molesters.

I know that some of you lifers and apologists would happily provide a DNA sample every 6 weeks (drrrrr uhhhh so sorry, we lost-uh the old one), and a weekly drug test, and a notarized, apostilled, stamped, certified, autographed by the pope holographic background check from interpol every 6 months just to keep your 2.0mil per month kindy jobs and further brown nose your klown overlords, but why encourage these things by trying to alert the Korean media every time a foreigner breaks the law (even outside of Korea)?

Why provide the Korean media with more fodder? Ask yourself this; what has the Korean media done to portray your minority group (foreigner, teacher, ethnic minority) in a positive or even neutral light? When has the Korean media shown itself to be fair and balanced when it comes to reporting on incidents involving foreigners or English teachers? Why provide them with leads? It's like giving bullets to the people who are shooting at you.

Other foreign ethnic groups in Korea have their own ways of dealing with problems within their own groups. Do you suppose ethnic Chinese Koreans go out of their way to attract attention to the small minority among them who commit crimes? Do you suppose the Mongolians do that? Do you suppose the Bangladeshi factory workers make a habit of turning eachother in to the police or media? They work things out among themselves. Enough people know this guy, and news about this story spread among the long term expat community within 24 hours of him being arrested. It is safe to say that everyone who knows him in Seoul, knew about this story before it was even posted on Dave's. It's highly unlikely that he would come back to Korea, and if he did, I have no doubt that someone (several people) would say something or do something about it without a bunch of E2 visa holders screaming for press attention on this story.

[TheUrbanMyth]

[archaeologist5]

[knee-highs]

[knee-highs]

[ThingsComeAround]

Thought this was about Simon (of Simon & Martina). The dude they caught grosses me out and I hope he rots under the jail