Anti-US Groups in Korea to Keep Government Subsidies
|The outrageousness of the Roh Moo-hyun government continues in Korea. The government is allowing the groups responsible for all the violence against Korean army soldiers and policemen to keep their government subsidy money:
A government committee will not halt subsidies to civic groups who were involved in illegal rallies and sometimes-violent demonstrations against government policies.
A joint committee working to promote a culture of peaceful rallying, consisting of representatives of the civic sector and the government, had a heated debate Wednesday night, and ended the meeting by postponing any plans for change.
Korean central and local governments provided subsidies last year totaling 175 billion won ($184 million) to some 19,000 civic groups, according to the Ministry of Government Affairs.
The government committee is headed jointly by Prime Minister Han Myeong-sook and Father Ham Sei-ung, a prominent figure in the civic movement.
Father Ham said, “Many members said that it is hard to tell whether a civic group’s members accidentally got involved in illegalities and violence or whether it happened under the group’s decision.”
How the hell do you accidentally do this to a policeman?:
The Korean government continues to be an absolute disgrace in their tacit support of these hate groups that attack and injure the mandatory service draftees. Surprisingly they didn’t completely sell out the police:
The committee also decided to cancel a plan to have riot police wear nametags when posted at rallies.
The plan was urged by civic groups, in a bid to keep riot police from using excessive force, by making it possible for protesters to identify abusive policemen.
However, Father Ham said, “We decided not to adopt the plan, as it could infringe on the rights of the riot policemen.”
Doesn’t bashing the police over the head with metal pipes and bamboo poles infringe on their rights as well?