Korean Activists Protest Camps Where Yankee Already Went Home
I am issuing an idiot alert in the Western Corridor after reading this in the Stars and Stripes:
The Yankees already had gone home or at least farther south when two buses carrying about ninety South Korean protesters arrived outside several U.S. bases near the Demilitarized Zone Tuesday.
The Western Corridor bases targeted by the protesters were vacated by 2nd Infantry Division units last year and soon will be returned to the South Korean government. So when the protesters mostly university students who were trailed by a few Korean National Police officers arrived, they found only empty buildings, rusting barbed wire and uninterested South Korean security guards.
Seth Robson hit that one on the head real well
Isn’t empty American bases what these people wanted to begin with?! That the Yankees go home, or in the case of the Western Corridor, go to Iraq?
Here is an idiot comment for you:
The lowest form of American culture spreads out from the bases,âsaid Lee Yongnam, 50, claiming that the soldiers bring crime and prostitution.
Okay, if the soldiers bring prostitution to Korea than how do you explain all the “barber shops” and “sports massage parlors” everywhere in Korea not to mention Paju? Shouldn’t have all these establishments in Paju closed down after the soldiers left? How come they are still there? Prostitution is a Korean problem not an American one. American MP’s cannot enforce Korean law. If this guy is so concerned about prostitution then get your own country’s police force to arrest the bar owners.
Here is another idiot comment:
Lee said the group was aware that the bases they visited had been vacated, but they chose to stage the protests to highlight their effect on the local community. The presence of the bases puts building restrictions on surrounding areas, he said, stunting industry and growth. The economies in areas outside the installations were fueled by bars and other businesses geared toward soldiers, so the soldiers departure had hurt the areas as much as their presence had, Lee said.
So does he want the US military to come back then? Plus the business owners in Dongducheon aren’t complaining about the soldiers. Just people like this.
These students came from Kyeonggi University and interestingly enough I met a student from Kyeonggi University when hiking up Pukhansan today. A good guy and former KATUSA who had obviously better things to do then hang out with idiots from his university at vacated camps.
I wonder if they visited the vacated camps because they got attacked by the business owners in Dongducheon the last time the idiots came up here?
I put up some backgrounder links on the issue of environmental crimes and anti-US promotion. This became one of their best tools in 2000, because it will never run out of ammunition. It is also one of the best tools for pointing out the utter Korean hypocrisy and how they can take even a tiny thing and run with it…. http://www.usinkorea.org
Assholes, yes. Idiots, no.
The point of this sho was to start turning public attention–and eventual outcry and demands for compensation for–to the oil left in the soil in the old motor pool, the chemicals left under the dry cleaners, and other infamous and notorious environmental "crimes" committed by the yankee devils.
The point is not to hold an empty protest at an emtpy camp not having known it was empty, but rather to begin the quest for US government dollars for new reasons.
Remember, after nearly three decades of screaming Yankee Go Home, they won. We're pulling out, slowly, but probably surely.
That endangers their continued existence as an organization. We're on the edge of a revolution in anti-American sentiment in Korea; the hate-wave following each closed camp as Green-Korea and other enviro NGOs follow along behind taking soil samples.
Stay tuned.
Haha I miss seeing those protests outside of Camp Casey. They got violent at times and got to drink from the fire hose. We knew the base was empty! We just chartered a bus with our parents money and came anyway without understanding what the US presence means for us. Ask your grandparents if the US Army has a reason to be here. I bet they know better. Go protest about saving Tibet or other self righteous things that noone has done before like save the whales. These students are nothing more than Emo kids who haven't learned that you have to cut yourself to get attention, up the road kids not across the street. You already have the haircuts!