Korean Anti-US Protesters Try to Tear Down General MacArthur Statue On 9/11 Anniversary
|This is how 9/11 is remembered in South Korea:
Useful Idiots out in force in Inchon protesting the MacArthur Statue.
Riot police playing king of the hill by holding the high ground against the hate group protesters wielding bamboo poles trying to tear down the MacArthur Statue.
This is the scene from yesterday’s anti-American hate fest in Inchon. Notice that the hate groups are using the same tactics they used in Pyongtaek, a frontal assault with bamboo poles and metal pipes. This is what the Chosun Ilbo had to say about the protest:
Dozens were injured when groups calling for the removal of a statue of U.S. general Douglas MacArthur clashed with police in Incheon’s Freedom Park on Sunday. The clashes came four days ahead of the 55th anniversary of the Incheon Landing of UN forces led by MacArthur that marked a turning point in the Korean War.
Some 4,000 members of progressive groups who had gathered in Sungeui Stadium in Incheon’s Nam-gu started marching on the park at 1 p.m. to demand the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Korea and the removal of the monument to the U.S. general from Freedom Park.
Here is my first point of contention with the Chosun article; they try to make it out that this protest was held on Sunday because the 15th is the 55th anniversary of the Inchon Landing. This is incorrect. The hate groups specifically held it on the anniversary of 9/11 to rub it in the USA’s face the terrorist attack that killed 3,000 Americans. My second point of contention is that the newspaper dignifies these people by calling them a “progressive group”. They are a hate group. If you exchanged the words they say about Americans to Koreans the media would have no qualms calling them a racist hate group. If tomorrow I had a protest demanding that every statue in tribute to Koreans in America should be torn down, my group would be labeled a hate group. These people are no different. Call them what they are, they hate Americans.
Here is another example of how out of hand this is getting. Some of you may remember this picture from July’s hate fest at Camp Humphreys:
At the Inchon protest, children were once again subject to violence:
Here is a quote I had to chuckle at when I read it:
The park resembled a battlefield littered with branches, dirt, eggs, torn-up paper and the blood of the wounded. Police had deployed no fewer than 38 companies of riot police — about 3,800 men — and 78 transport vehicles, but they were unable to stop the violence and earned complaints from protesters for hurling stones.
The protesters are complaining that the riot police threw stones at them when they are attacking the police with bamboo poles, metal pipes, and rocks? I guess they are just supposed to stand there and take a beating from these idiots.
Is this Inchon or New Orleans?
Overall though, this protest was unsuccessful in creating the huge anti-American movement they hoped to create. In fact now more pro-American Koreans are mobilizing against the hate groups:
Earlier, some 1,000 members of conservative groups rallied at Inseong Girls High School near the Park to defend the statue of a man they see as a hero of the Korean War. At 4 p.m., they too entered Freedom Park with the intent of burning North Korean flags, throwing stones and eggs, and stopping the progressive groups from entering the park, but were stopped by police.
On Thursday, more than 10,000 conservative activists including former marines will gather for a rally to protect the statue. “After the rally, we will take a turn to guard the statue on our own,” a representative of the Marine Corps Veterans Association said.
In the coming days we will see what the pro-American groups do in response to the hate groups. However, the true show down will be in Pyongtaek when the land is forcibly removed from the last few farmers still holding out and preventing the USFK from relocating soldiers there from Yongsan and the DMZ areas. This was just another warm up for the upcoming hate fest Super Bowl coming up this winter. And finally I will pose the question of why these people of continually beat, assault, and injure Korean policemen are not in jail?
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Here is the first South Korean press report on today’s anti-American hate fest at Freedom Park in Inchon were hate groups vowed to tear down a symbol of Inchon the General MacArthur statue:
(ATTN: UPDATES with reports of injuries in clashes)
INCHEON, Sept. 11 (Yonhap) — Hundreds of anti-U.S. protesters clashed with riot police Sunday as they marched tried to march onto a public park in South Korea’s western port city of Incheon where a statue of U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur stands.The protesters were part of 4,000 leftist activists who staged street demonstrations earlier in the day, demanding the removal of the statue which they argued hinders inter-Korean reconciliation and unification.
They think MacArthur’s statue hinders reunification? There idiot policy of providing nearly unmonitored food aid to North Korea that goes directly to the North Korean military has done more to hinder reunification than MacArthur’s statue. I guess they think if a Kim Il Sung statue sat there instead reunification will come quicker.
There are reports of injuries. Hopefully the injuries are not of the riot police that have to continuously put up with the violence from these hate groups. I’m sure there will be more updates on this in the morning.
You compare this with New Orleans? Oh please. Give me a break.
Was this not hoodlums, violence, and lawlessness on the streets of Inchon on Sunday? Obviously the scale is not the same as New Orleans but I’m making the point that many people here say that Koreans would never break into violence in the wake of a major disaster.
I am only showing that Koreans have the capacity to cause violence and let anarchy take over just as easily as it happens in the United States if the police don’t arrest anyone. Why are these people allowed to break the law and assault people? It is the same question I pose on the New Orleans police department, why did they let people break the law and assault people as well?
Well as long as no one stands up to these people they are going to keep distorting facts and bashing the US. All your research and efforts to spread the truth about things here in Korea is commendable but it should be something the US Embassy should be doing. However, you never hear a peep from them even on the eve of today's 9/11 hate fest in Inchon.
You know, I wonder if all of this would even be an issue if MacArthur was not an American….
Anyway, wonder if these haters are more open to putting up a statue of Kim Jong Il or Kim Ill Sung – probably the two people that had a hand in the killing of more innocent Koreans than anyone else – for sake of re-unification.
These people are commie-wanna bes. I'm korean myself but this is too much and this is too wrong. I know there are the problems with SOFA thing but it's so hard to believe that some incidents will make koreans go that far. It's their stupid fantasy about the reunification. But the truth is N-korea always be a flip-flops about North and south relation. ALWAYS!
I support the reunification too but this is not a right time. Definitely after Kim jong ill is dead and the commie govt.
It's field grade JAG officers that make sure we don't hurt the feelings of criminals in this kinder, gentler Army. "Oh, you hurt his feelings, so that's going to be two months off his sentence." Gimme a break.
I brought a shithead to a hearing in shakles on Stanley a couple years ago. One trial defense service lawyer told my escort guys that we were embarassing the prisoner and that he'd have the whole chain of command in shakles next time if we did it again. He kept sneaking off post through holes in fences and such, so I had fireguards keep an eye on him. The goddamn trial defense service called this "conditions tantamount to confinement," and got his sentence reduced considerably.
This is why so many commanders nowadays are reluctant to hunt down criminals in the barracks…it's too hard to get anything done working with legal. JAG officers are the ones undermining military justice!
By the way, 1SG Pence was my squad leader on Hovey back in '92. Anything fine with him would have been supported by me 100%.
I know that the majority of the average Koreans do not approve of this behavior. However, if they average Korean and mainly the government does not do anything about them these few idiots end up creating policy that effects the vast majority of the people here. The politicians won't do anything until the people push them into action. Hopefully the average Korean will respond but I have my doubts.
These few idiots are wearing down the ROK-US alliance slowly but surely. The steady decrease in troops here in Korea is mainly because of these people. Not that it is a bad thing because we should reduce troops here. It is just the way it is being done is not appropriate. Troop reductions should be a coordinate plan between the US and Korea, not a response to anti-American hate groups.
I agree the average Korean thinks the Inchon guys are wrongheaded.
I don’t agree so much with that idea about the Pyongtaek protests – even the more mildly violent ones.
And I agree less about the average Yongsan or Embassy protest.
My adult students would put it this way often —-
“The students in the protests are just kind of misguided. Now, WHEN I was in school, we had a reason to protest, and things got violent, because we had an authoritarian government. What else could we do?
I feel the students, but they need to wake up and see what Korea has accomplished….
We had good reason to protests. The students today, they might have some good points, but their are blind about North Korea and go too far with the anti-American stuff. They push it too far. Korea isn’t a poor country anymore. We have democracy. They should understand reality and scale back their extremism.”
But, as I say ad nausem, when it comes to basic understand of things besides the Korean War, my students in general shared similar ideas about things like Nogunri, the Kwangju Massacre, the Cheju massacre, US support or control of SK’s dictators, economic “pressure”, and so on….
They agreed that the US was more than likely a “cancer” on Korea, they just viewed it as a “necessary” evil…..
“the average Korean thinks they’re just as retarded as you or I do.”
Amen to that, brother, amen to that.
As much as these idiots anger me, their protest should be put into perspective–the reports said about 4,000 “progressive” (why do they always use that word when the opposite, “regressive,” is more appropriate?) morons showed up. That’s out of 48 million people. I definitely think you should put things like this on your blog so the folks back home can see this crap, but the average Korean thinks they’re just as retarded as you or I do. Even the Roh government put out a statement denouncing them.
The MacArthur protests have very little coverage in the news media here in America. I have to go on the internet to read about it. Thanks for posting articles on it.
Someone, somewhere, has to come up with a spray that will get rid of these damn parasites sucking on the blood of good patriotic men and women in all these democratic and free countries.
Like make it unattachable, get them away from the teat of democratic freedom and prosperity so that they rot to death in North Korean gulags and regret their stupidity.
Hey kim, “problems with the sofa” what problems? you mean that the yankees get a fair trial instead of a public lynching.
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This takes me back to the Mad Cow hysteria era. Time sure flies.
@lee, this was even pre-mad cow. As bad as the Mad Cow Crisis of 2008 was, the Korean leftists tried to pretend it was not about anti-Americanism and instead directed at President Lee Myung-bak to get him to resign for giving into American trade demands. The 2002-2006 timeframe during the Roh Moo-hyun administration was rabid anti-Americanism liked seen here.
I miss this era. when will I ever see americans getting assaulted, mocked, insulted, and despised again?
Commies are so lame…
“I miss this era. when will I ever see americans getting assaulted, mocked, insulted, and despised again?”
When you don’t have to pay me damages or risk prosecution.