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Old 30th June 2008, 05:39 AM   #1 (permalink)
kismetcapitan
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schizophrenic political beliefs

I am an American. I am a diehard member of the American Libertarian Party. I hate government, taxes, and hope for a bright future in America where the police do not bother or hassle citizens, drugs are legal, abortion and gay marriage are free choices that all citizens can make, and that fat behemoth of power that has festered and grown from the 1930s until today in Washington DC gets pared down to pre-1900's size.

Yet for the first time, I've begun to consider how I'd vote if I could in Korea. And much to my surprise, I am a fascist, if I had a say in Korean politics. The left wing has seized upon a misstep by the conservative Korean government and has turned this mad cow idiocy with the Free Trade Agreement signed with the United States into huge daily anti-government protests. It's like Tiennamen Square almost two decades ago...except there's nothing to complain about. Korea is far more wealthy a country than ever, and the new president knows what he's doing. Left-wing media has overblown mad cow (a total of three cows, all of canadian origin, have ever been found with the disease on US soil), and if you ask an average Korean, particularly high school and college students, they are convinced that if they eat American beef, they will contract the disease.

I wouldn't go so far as my parents to say that the organizers behind these are North Korean spies, but....I support an immediate military crackdown on all these commie bastards clogging the center of the city and throwing garbage at the US Embassy. Send in the Special Forces and end it (this has been done before). Dissolve the National Assembly and give the president 5 years limited dictator powers - I didn't like him at first, but the more I've seen him and his policies, the more I've seen him as a guy who gets stuff done quickly and well - reminiscent of the president/dictator (1960-1979) who built Korea from a wasteland into what it is now.

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I know some guys who are riot police. Far from being the iron fist of the government, these are 19-20 year old kids who are just serving their mandatory military service just like every other male, and are just trying to finish out their two years so they can get back to college. Not a one of them are volunteers. I'll bet Kim Jung-Il is having a jolly good time watching the TV every night and seeing these commie bastards protesting over basically nothing. Stupid idiots - the FTA benefits Korea about twice as much as it does the US - it allows Korea to flood the US market even more with tax-free cellphones and flat-screen TVs, as well as have the 2% car tax removed on Hyundais, where US cars get their tariff reduced to 20% and get to export beef to Korea, where the price per kilo for beef is the highest in the world (until the US gets back into the game). I'm sick of beef costing 30 pounds sterling per kilo. I've eaten American beef for most of my life and it tastes just fine I smell the filthy stink of protectionism, of pointless anti-Americanism.

**** them. Call in the military, roll in the tanks, shut them down.
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