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Antiwar Protests Rock South Korea
More than 10,000 Korean antiwar protesters marched on the US embassy in Seoul Aug. 15, 2004, demanding an end to the US occupation of Iraq. They also called for the total withdrawal of all South Korean troops from Iraq as well as the resignation of South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun for having placed them there. The South Korean President has vowed to send up to 3,000 more troops to join the 600 already in Iraq. The South Korean government has placed a total news blackout on the story of sending additional troops to Iraq, citing a law to protect military secrets as justification. The government warned it would punish any media outlet that violated the ban.
The antiwar protestors were blocked from reaching the US embassy by 7,200 riot police, who used police buses to surround the embassy and barracade the streets. From atop the buses the police attacked the protestors with tear gas, and water cannon. "We oppose sending troops to Iraq," protesters shouted. "Withdraw U.S. troops from South Korea. President Roh Moo-hyun, Step down."
Demonstrators tore apart a huge US flag they held overhead near the U.S. embassy. After being drenched in police tear gas and water cannon, the anti-imperialist marchers scuffled with heavily armed police in hand to hand battles on the streets.
The antiwar rally also marked 59 years since the smashing of Japanese imperialism and the end of Japan's colonization of Korea. That fact was not lost on the demonstrators... who now see Japanese troops operating in Iraq as part of the so-called "coalition of the willing" (Photo by Lee Jae-Won/Reuters)
Demonstrators tore apart a huge US flag they held overhead near the U.S. embassy. After being drenched in police tear gas and water cannon, the anti-imperialist marchers scuffled with heavily armed police in hand to hand battles on the streets.
The antiwar rally also marked 59 years since the smashing of Japanese imperialism and the end of Japan's colonization of Korea. That fact was not lost on the demonstrators... who now see Japanese troops operating in Iraq as part of the so-called "coalition of the willing" (Photo by Lee Jae-Won/Reuters)
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Well done!
A staged event in which the police
(who are proven in Korea as elsewhere to represent not the rule of law and the equal rights of all humanity but rather the criminal oligarchian regime against the wishes of the Korean people)
are brought to situations of little benefit is critical to success.
The battle can, with signally satisfactory results, be taken TO the enemy as well as performed on ground of his choosing...with minimal advantage other than the media display, which can easily become a dangerous and difficult weapon to wield...
It is very important to continue these excellent demonstrations and they need to break out in every major capital around the planet. They need to be sustained, being repeated regularly and do not require any permits.
No free peoples require permits to speak.
No free peoples require permits to congregate.
No free peoples require permits to protest.
Now is the time for all Koreans to gather themselves, North and South, to remove the oligarchian mercenary army from Korea.
It is common knowledge that it serves no purpose Korean, it is there to keep you controlled, divided, and subjugated.
The activities of the rogue state regime are obvious to all, and if the Americans themselves do not not have the moral and civic courage to protect universal principles of justice, equal rights under law, and the sovereign dignity of all peoples, in their own nation (?!?) they can at least rest assured that in the rest of the world, there is going to be unrelenting hell to pay for the criminal oligarch and it´s lackies.
Well done!
A staged event in which the police
(who are proven in Korea as elsewhere to represent not the rule of law and the equal rights of all humanity but rather the criminal oligarchian regime against the wishes of the Korean people)
are brought to situations of little benefit is critical to success.
The battle can, with signally satisfactory results, be taken TO the enemy as well as performed on ground of his choosing...with minimal advantage other than the media display, which can easily become a dangerous and difficult weapon to wield...
It is very important to continue these excellent demonstrations and they need to break out in every major capital around the planet. They need to be sustained, being repeated regularly and do not require any permits.
No free peoples require permits to speak.
No free peoples require permits to congregate.
No free peoples require permits to protest.
Now is the time for all Koreans to gather themselves, North and South, to remove the oligarchian mercenary army from Korea.
It is common knowledge that it serves no purpose Korean, it is there to keep you controlled, divided, and subjugated.
The activities of the rogue state regime are obvious to all, and if the Americans themselves do not not have the moral and civic courage to protect universal principles of justice, equal rights under law, and the sovereign dignity of all peoples, in their own nation (?!?) they can at least rest assured that in the rest of the world, there is going to be unrelenting hell to pay for the criminal oligarch and it´s lackies.
Well done!
I agree! The US is now getting ready to move it's troops out of South Korea. Since the Korean people are so adamantly against us being there, I fully support removing our 37,000 troops. Since South Korea is one of the ten richest countries in the world, it can certainly afford to pay for it's own defense. If they want to reunify with the North, under the leadership of Don King or whoever he is, fine with me. Just don't whine later about eating grass and starving to death. Power to the people, dude.
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