The Helpless Resistance
The Seoul Times
Saturday, November 26, 2005
By Thomas Omestad
And yet, the growing split between haves and have-nots has not generated any organized opposition, say visitors to the North. Informers and state security services see to that. Watching videotapes of South Korean TV soap operas has become popular but remains illegal. Police, according to several accounts, have taken to shutting off the power to apartment buildings at night to search for contraband videos; they go apartment-to-apartment, looking for VCR s with tapes trapped by the cutoff of electricity. The unlucky can expect prison time.
Does anybody give a shit about people going to jail for no reason?
Will this dictatorship laugh at the idea of freedom for decades more?
How can peace possibly be more important than stopping this oppression at all costs?
Saturday, November 26, 2005
By Thomas Omestad
And yet, the growing split between haves and have-nots has not generated any organized opposition, say visitors to the North. Informers and state security services see to that. Watching videotapes of South Korean TV soap operas has become popular but remains illegal. Police, according to several accounts, have taken to shutting off the power to apartment buildings at night to search for contraband videos; they go apartment-to-apartment, looking for VCR s with tapes trapped by the cutoff of electricity. The unlucky can expect prison time.
Does anybody give a shit about people going to jail for no reason?
Will this dictatorship laugh at the idea of freedom for decades more?
How can peace possibly be more important than stopping this oppression at all costs?
posted by KnightofGoodMrIronMan at 11:28 PM
14 Comments:
They're socialists which means they are allowed to arrest anyone for anything. We non-socialists are supposed to just sit down and shut up. Haven't you figured that our yet.
Remember, we are not even allowed to arrest those who really do threaten us.
i'm afraid that's not how socialism works. north korea is a very poor excuse for socialism.
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"north korea is a very poor excuse for socialism."
Perhaps you would be kind enough to point out an example of history's "communist paradise". The Soviet Union? China? Cuba? Where???
Shoprat.
"We non-socialists are supposed to just sit down and shut up"
Who the fuck said we have to, anyway?
I don't plan on it...
I don't plan on doing it either.
there never has been a "communist paradise". nor has there been a socialist one. all states have been deformed worker's states.
if any though, the paris commune.
there never has been a "communist paradise". nor has there been a socialist one." So why should we allow communism to exist on Earth?
"all (communist)states have been deformed worker's states." That need to be toppled...
"if any though, the paris commune."
You simply can't expect me to respect France...
"So why should we allow communism to exist on Earth?"
you do know that capitalism has killed more people? should we ban capitalism too?
"You simply can't expect me to respect France... "
how refreshingly open-minded.
you do know that capitalism has killed more people?"
Yea? Is South Korea a Good example? Or Japan?
"how refreshingly open-minded."
To bad nothing you have to say is refreshing. Or relating to North Korea.
p.s: Tell me what I SHOULD respect when it comes to France...
"Yea? Is South Korea a Good example? Or Japan?"
no, but how about africa, and south east asia?
"To bad nothing you have to say is refreshing. Or relating to North Korea."
well, whether it is refreshing is down to your opinion. i DO talk about north korea, i just reply to whatever is given to me.
and what should you respect about france? well, what should you respect about any country? just because france doesn't back up ridiculous unilateralist wars doesn't mean that it's a shit country all of a sudden.
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"well, whether it is refreshing is down to your opinion."
Yup. This was cool...
"you do know that capitalism has killed more people?"
No.
Here's some reading material for literates only...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47616
what does that prove? that people died in famine?
and what has that got to do with this debate?
"what does that prove? that people died in famine?"
Yea, like all of the people that died in a famine in North Korea, while South Korea was "magically" protected...
"and what has that got to do with this debate?"
All I can say is I promise you will see this comment posted before the end of the year. Simply on account of how dumb and unthoughtful it is.
"Yea, like all of the people that died in a famine in North Korea, while South Korea was "magically" protected..."
you like jumping from topic to topic. that article was about china, not korea. we WERE talking about capitalism vs. communism.
"All I can say is I promise you will see this comment posted before the end of the year. Simply on account of how dumb and unthoughtful it is. "
i laugh at the thought.
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