Song Released Advocating Tearing Down MacArthur Statue
In preperation for the anti-American hatefest tomorrow at Freedom Park in Inchon, anti-American Korean folk singer Park Seong-hwan has released his latest hate song:
The song blames MacArthur for the massacre of Korean civilians in Jeju Island on April 3, 1948 and the slaughter of civilians at Nogeun-ri during the Korean War. It joins calls for the statue to be pulled down.
“I released the song ahead of protests planned for Sunday calling for the statue to be removed,†singer Park Seong-hwan told the Chosun Ilbo on Friday. “I wanted to teach people about the side of MacArthur ordinary people don’t know about.”
Asked if the lyrics might be too radical, Park said, “MacArthur is a war criminal who directly ordered massacres of civilians… As UN commander at the time, there are things he must take responsibility for.”
Between verses two and three, Park adds his own narration. “Seize Seoul. There are girls and ladies there. For three days, Seoul will be yours — UN Commander Douglas MacArthur, September 1950.” Park says historical records confirm that this is an authentic quote by the maverick commander.
Of course it isn’t an actual quote but if you repeat the lie enough times people will believe it. You see that tactic used over and over again here in Korea in regards to rewriting history. If you blame America and in this case MacArthur for every bad thing that has happened in Korean history over and over it becomes imbedded in the minds of the citizens here.
It isn’t just the hate groups that do this either. The Korean government as well, are masters at this tactic led none other by the master history distorter Unification Minister Chung Dong-young.
The Korean media is also well versed in this tactic. A perfect example of this is that the Korean media continuously pushes the notion that GI’s that commit crimes in Korea and not prosecuted in Korean courts because of the SOFA agreement, even though there are plenty of GI’s sitting in Korean prisons today that were prosecuted and sentenced in Korean courts.
So the rewriting of history by useful idiots such as Park Seong-hwan continues to be a extremely effective tactic by the North Koreans and their sympathisers who are behind many of these hate groups that preach anti-Americanism.
Here are some more good links to check out about the current General MacArthur controversy:
The Maehyang-ri/Koon-ni range is another example. I reviewed the incident a couple of days ago at the http://www.usinkorea.org site and I put up an extensive list of articles related to it.
At the time, the media did report where the bombs fell — on the range — and they told about the fact it was an emergency measure with a plane having engine trouble and needed to drop weight – even though they kept calling it an “accident” or “inadvertent” dropping of bombs. But, they also did the usual think of most often just repeating the claims of injuries and damage by the civic groups and when they did report USFK’s claims or the findings of joint commissions, they undermined the claims in favor of the civic groups.
After a year, however, the USFK were omitted altogether and former claims by civic groups became statements of simple fact.
The summation you get now is “about 11 people injured and hundreds of homes damaged” by an “accidently/inadvertent” release of bombs.
And the most interesting thing that is a part of the myth making process —-
at the time of the incident, even with the press saying repeatedly the bombs fell on the range, the reaction of the civic groups, media, government, and averae Korean was as if the bombs had hit right on top of homes.
The righteous raged drummed up could absorb fact at the moment without letting the nature of them interfere with the desire to vent —
and after the period of anger was well over —-
after a year —- what happens is the myth that is created fits the rage rather than the facts….
so, you get the Korea Herald in 2004 (4 years later) saying the bombs dropped “in the heart of the town” and the Joongang Daily reports the bombs dropped near the village — and everybody reports “injuring about 11 people and damaging several hundred homes.”
And I just found where the Korea Journal — a respected Korea focused academic source managed and contributed to by Korea specialists —-
who repeated everything I just wrote above about the bombs being an accident and landing near the village and the injuries and damage —– but the dip shit Western scholar also said the accident happened in 2002….
The 2000 water case is spoken of as if the amount of material dumped “directly into the Han” was a major amount that could have caused poisoning —- rather than the truth that it was some 20 gallons and dumped into the base sewer system — which was processed 3 times before it hit the Han — which everybody knows is deadly polluted to begin with….
Like I said, in Korea, when Korea feels like venting, they can pick up any issue of any size and run with it. Their sense of righteous outrage can withstand statements of fact, and as time passes, the rage itself is what is remembered, and facts are shifted to match more of that rage —- meaning the facts become exaggerated — at times very grossly exaggerated.