Category: Anti-American Crap

The remaining hold outs have been ordered by the South Korean Supreme Court that they must vacate the land that is to be used for the Camp Humphreys expansion:

South Korea — Residents who have refused — sometimes amid violence — to move from land earmarked for the Camp Humphreys expansion are there unlawfully and must leave, South Korea’s high court has ruled.

Sunday’s ruling by the Seoul High Court, however, set no deadline for the 74 residents to vacate their homes in Daechu-ri and Dodu-ri villages, which border Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek.

The fact that no timeline has been set could be used to further delay the Camp Humphreys expansion which is what the South Korean government is trying to do.

USFK officials have said the expansion is going to go on as scheduled and the South Korean Defense Ministry seems to agree:

But South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense on Monday said a deadline would be set for sometime in January or February. An MND spokesman noted that is also the period in which workers are slated to have begun the first phase of development of the land.

I hope their right, but I’m not getting my hopes up.

Not only is Cindy Sheehan polluting newspapers and web pages in Korea with her image, but now she is even on Korean television screens with her interview on the Heart to Heart program on the Arirang Channel. Here is the video on demand link to the show.

From the beginning I could tell this was going to be a softball interview of Sheehan when the host of Heart to Heart, Ahn Jung-hyun opened up by talking about the futility of war. Futility? War worked to pretty well to protect South Korea from communist invasion, not to mention using war to defeat that little thing called Japanese Imperialism that established the Republic of Korea to begin with. So I really can’t agree war is totally futile.

Anyway the first thing that jumped out at me during the interview was how proud Sheehan appeared to be to have met with leaders of the Democratic Labor Party who helped organize her visit. Now if I was interviewing her I would have hit her with a question about if she knew the leaders of the DLP and the Camp Humprheys protesters had recently been arrested as North Korean spies.
It is also quite ironic that after this Sheehan than makes a comment about how the US needs to stop meddling in South Korea when the country that is meddling more than anyone in South Korea by organizing protests to tear down the MacArthur Statue in Inchon, organizing the Camp Humphreys movement, creating a false USFK pollution scandal, and even trying to influence the election of the mayor of Seoul along with a host of other issues, is North Korea not the United States. However, people like Sheehan hate the US so much; their warped world views only allow them to see the US as the boogeyman of all the world’s ills and journalists like Ms. Ahn do nothing to challenge these people on their warped views. Unless of course Ahn believes like Sheehan the US is the real evil in South Korea.

Ahn than asks Sheehan why her son Casey joined the Army. Sheehan went into the typical leftist rant about how the recruiter lied to him and tricked him into the Army, he was a mechanic and wasn’t supposed to see combat, and how he only joined for the college money. Ahn than asks her why Casey went to Iraq and Sheehan explained how he didn’t want to go ,but the Army made him go. Now I would like to direct everyone to this link with provides a biography of Casey Sheehan. Casey reenlisted into the military before he deployed to Iraq. Why would someone who supposedly was lied to by his recruiter and didn’t want to go to war and was just in it for the college money reenlist into the Army knowing full well he was reenlisting to go to war? I guess Casey was duped and lied to by his reenlistment NCO as well?

I wish someone would challenge Sheehan on this. Especially since she keeps saying Casey would support her anti-war movement including in this Arirang interview. The question that needs to be asked to her is if Casey was so anti-war why did he reenlist into the Army, effectively volunteering him to go to war in Iraq? Nobody is willing to challenge her though because Sheehan and her leftist allies would call anyone who asks such questions heartless to ask such questions of a grieving mother such as the holier than thou Cindy Sheehan.

She also keeps making the statements that Casey was a mechanic and wasn’t supposed to see combat. Normally mechanics wouldn’t end up in direct combat, however she fails to mention that Casey volunteered to be part of a rescue party to save some pinned down soldiers when he was killed. Casey Sheehan was one of many heroes that day that died.

Than later in the interview Sheehan throws out this bombshell that the US has killed 700,000 civilians in Iraq. The Iraq Body Count site puts the civilian death toll at just over 54,000. Keep in mind this website bases it’s numbers off of media reports that have often proven to be inaccurate. Of course after Sheehan threw out that 700,000 number, Ahn didn’t challenge her on that either.

Sheehan than continues on about how the US military is committing war crimes in Iraq without substantiating it and how in the US people are losing all their civil liberties, which of course I would have responded, okay what civil liberties have you lost? You are still allowed to go on television and broadcast falsehoods and lies as facts and the government hasn’t shut you up yet if this so called civil liberties gestapo is running around taking people’s rights away.

She then tries to make her self out as some kind of martyr being persecuted by the government because she has been arrested multiple times. Earth to Sheehan, you were arrested on multiple occasions because you broke the law! If I did what you did I would have been arrested too, along with anybody else. If anything the authorities have been using the kid gloves on Sheehan because they know if they arrest her it will make the headlines she so crave. Case in point, the picture below:

She sure looks happy for someone supposedly being persecuted. In fact she has been having the time of her life apparently.

However, there is one thing I agree with Sheehan on, but for different reasons that South Korea should bring the Zaytun unit home from Iraq which it was just recently was decided will happen by the end of 2007. I am willing to bet Sheehan is going to take credit for that too.

The fact that Sheehan is a blabbering propaganda machine is to be expected, but why do journalists like Ahn Jung-hyun not challenge this woman on anything, especially Korea related subjects that Sheehan knows nothing about. Like no mention from Ahn about how the USFK camps are being reduced from 41 to 10 including the fact Korea is receiving some of the most valuable real estate in the country, Yongsan Garrison in Seoul. Nothing either about how USFK is down sizing from 37,500 to 25,000 soldiers and possibly even more. I could go on and on about just the Korea related questions Sheehan should have been asked but it appeared Ahn was to intimidated to challenge Sheehan on.

Thus that is the problem with Sheehan, journalists are intimidated by her, which just begs the question of when does one stop being a grieving mother and becomes someone who can be legitimately challenged on her views and the many out right lies and falsehoods she preaches? Unfortunately in Korea the falsehoods have prevailed.

If you haven’t had enough of Cindy Sheehan, the Marmot has linked to this Z-magazine article from Sheehan concerning her visit to South Korea. The article is very badly written and I have to wonder who was the editor that let this thing pass, but anyway the article rambles on about nonsense in other parts of the globe, but I will keep my analysis on the Korean related content.

Prepare your stomach because here we go:

Miles before our bus reached the village on the evening of November
20th, we were stopped by approximately 200 South Korean riot-police who were decked out in their full riot regalia with bullet proof shields. We were traveling with Father Moon, an elderly Buddhist priest who has been an advocate for the villagers for a few years now. Father Moon got out of the bus and negotiated with the police captain for what seemed hours in the near freezing cold, but was only about 20 minutes. Finally, in what the villagers said was an unprecedented move, they allowed us entry into the village (after we passed another heavily guarded checkpoint). Villagers must present ID to get into their own village and visitors are rarely allowed to go in. Why? Because the village of Daechuri is under-siege in a criminal collaboration between the governments of South Korea and the United States of America and the governments don’t want the world to see what their crimes are doing to yet more innocent civilians.

First all, Ms. Sheehan those guards wearing Darth Vader suits aren’t doing so just because you showed up at Daechu-ri; they are wearing that equipment because your so called friends regularly attack them with sharpened bamboo poles, metal pipes, and rocks like this:

Or how about this:

Better yet maybe Sheehan should watch this video of her friends in action.

Then the fact that Sheehan thinks Father Moon is a Buddhist when in fact he is a Catholic Priest just goes to show how clueless she is about her so called friends in Korea. Sheehan then fails to realize the reason ID is shown to get into the village is because the North Korean sponsored anti-US groups had been squatting in the village for weeks before they were expelled by the South Korean police but only after they put up a violent clash and injured 117 policemen with their sharpened bamboo spears, metal bars, and rocks. Not to mention the fact her new Korean friends have links to North Korean spies.

Sheehan continues:

The village of Daechuri has the unmitigated gall to be located next to a US military base, Camp Humphreys, which is slated for an eleven-billion dollar expansion that would include a golf course for the use of
soldiers stationed there. The only problem is (not for the governments)
that the village of Daechuri and their thousands of acres of farmland,
mostly rice paddies, are in the way of the juggernaut of US military
expansion. The people of Daechuri have been cut-off from their farmlands by razor wire, guard towers, and armed foot patrols. Over two-thirds of the residents have the small village, but that leaves about one-third of them there to stand against the mightiest Army and the greediest government in world history.

First of all USFK is not expanding it is downsizing from 41 camps to 10 and reducing soldiers from 37,500 to 25,000 and I wouldn’t be surprised if the number goes even lower. Plus the Korean government is gaining the land from the closed US camps including some of the most valuable real estate in the whole country, Yongsan Garrison. The Camp Humphreys expansion is needed to make room for the soldiers being consolidated on the camp. As Sheehan even noted herself, the vast majority of the villagers voluntarily took the compensation payment and left. Plus the vast majority of Koreans support the Camp Humphreys expansion. 8 in 10 Korean are against the methods her friends are using to protest at Camp Humphreys while 7 in 10 Koreans support the base expansion.

More from Sheehan:

We heard stories of May 4th, when 20,000 Korean olice descended on the village with heavy-hands and strong arm tactics hat allowed the barbed wire fences to be constructed, thereby effectively cutting the farmers off from tens of thousands of dollars worth of un-harvested rice. We heard stories from village elders who lived through Japanese imperialism and occupation to the US Korean police action that killed 2.5 million Koreans, and are now having their lands and ways of life robbed of them by “Pax Americana.” My heart broke for the people of Daechuri and was filled with disgust for whom the people of Korea call “Georgie Bushie” and whom I call “BushCo.”

First of all watch the video I mentioned before to see why the Korean police had to forcibly remove the squatters that had taken over Daechu-ri. Plus the rice she mentions was illegally planted on the farmland by the squatters.

This paragraph here is the ultimate example of how incompetent and clueless this woman is about Korean affairs:

Not only is the expansion of Camp Humphreys hurting the people of
Daechuri, but it will have the effect of further de-stabilizing a region
already on pins and needles due parially to US intervention. You can bet your turkey left-overs that North Korea is watching these developments very closely and only the people of Korea and this region will pay for US infiltrations in South Korea. I know I don’t feel any safer by the raping and pillaging of Daechuri…in fact the expansion of Camp Humphreys will only do what Georgie Bushie is becoming infamous for: making America and the world less safe and secure. As an aside: I took a straw poll of about 400 South Koreans and 100% of them said that Georgie Bushie is far more frightening than Kim Jong-Il and they want the US out of Korea so they can put their divided country back together again.

Is this Cindy Sheehan’s attempt to be the next South Korean anti-Unification Minister? This paragraph is about as clueless as something coming out of Lee Jong-seok’s mouth. “US infiltrations in South Korea”? WTF is she talking about? Would she prefer that US soldiers remain within North Korean artillery range instead of a consolidated camp outside of NK artillery range and under the protection of PATRIOT missiles from ballistic missile attack?

By the way if you are still reading this without stomach pains congratulations, anyway here is more from Sheehan:

What can we do stateside to help these people? We can lobby our
congressional reps to hold hearings into the tragedy of Daechuri. We can donate money to help the villagers get fuel for heating their homes during the bitter Korean winter and to obtain food, since they can’t access their fields for harvest.

Now Sheehan is saying the villagers are can’t get food because they can’t access the fields they illegally planted. This is ridiculous and her final paragraphs are even more ridiculous:

I hope when Americans play golf on the golf course that will be
constructed over the rice fields that sustained and gave sustenance to the villagers for generations, they stop and reflect for even a brief
moment that an entire village was destroyed and hundreds of people were displaced for their recreation.

Golf! A village was obliterated for golf. If this is the “American way”
then we obviously need a new way, as speedily as possible.

The village was not “obliterated for golf”. The village was “obliterated” for the various reasons I mentioned above.
I feel bad for the residents of Daechu-ri who don’t want to move but this isn’t the first time imminent domain has been used in Korea for the national good and it won’t be the last. Sheehan and her friends would have a lot more creditbility with me if they went out and protested every imminent domain case in Korea every time a highway is built, KTX tracks constructed, or new shopping centers and apartments put up. Yet they won’t because none of that involves the US military.

Sheehan is a master propagandist and she demagoges issues in order to hit emotional cords in people. Her article is written to influence people emotionally while being very loose on facts, substance, and context. It just shows she cares more about leftist causes and promoting herself than she does understanding and making educated opinions about Korea, which has ultimately made her a useful idiot of the North Korean sponsored anti-US groups she calls her friends.

Is there anyone out there suprised by the arrest of one of the leaders of the MacArthur protests as a North Korean spy? From the Chosun:

An activist who is on parole after serving time for spying for North Korea has been arrested for espionage again. Kang Soon-jeong, the former vice chairman of the South Korean chapter of the Pan-Korean Alliance for Reunification, an outlawed pro-Pyongyang group, was arrested on Tuesday for providing “national secrets” to Pyongyang, police said. Kang was also co-chairman of a civic group that led efforts to topple the statue of U.S. general Dougas MacArthur in Incheon last year.

Let’s remember the MacArthur protests of 2005 for a minute. The biggest protest happened on September 11, 2005 and was deliberately planned to occur on the same date of the worst terrorist attack in American history in order to rub it into Americans’ faces.

How can we ever forget images like this:

Or my personal favorite:

Something else to remember was that it wasn’t just the North Korean stooges calling for the removal of the MacArthur statue, but also the Korea Times newspaper:

As President Roh made it clear that it is the government’s position to keep the statue, U.S. lawmakers had better wait and see. Nor is this an issue for partisan wrangling domestically. Related officials can consider relocating it to a war memorial from the present public park someday. We have never heard of a statue of Dwight Eisenhower in Normandy to commemorate D-Day.

So keep that in mind the next time you read the Korea Times, that they advocated removing the MacArthur statue because a bunch of North Korean sponsored stooges demanded it. Plus their claims that Eisenhower’s statue is not on display at Normandy were proven to be utterly false as well. Ike’s statue stands proudly at Normandy just like MacArthur’s statue should continue to stand proudly at Inchon.

However, not everyone has forgotten about what MacArthur means to South Korea:

These ROK veterans at the time called the anti-MacArthur protesters North Korean spies and they were right.

The US Congress even got involved in the MacArthur controversy by sending this letter to the Blue House condemning the protests:

Members of the U.S. House Committee on International Relations on Thursday protested at calls in Korea to topple a statue of U.S. general Douglas MacArthur in Incheon. Their protest came in a letter to President Roh Moo-hyun signed by committee chairman Henry Hyde and others.

The letter said but for the 1950 Incheon landing led by MacArthur, the Korea of today would not exist. If attempts to damage the statue continued, it would be better to hand it over to the Americans, the signatories said.

(…)

Needless to say Mr. President the Congress of the United States and the American people would never subscribe to such a description of a hero who led the allied forces which liberated the Republic of Korea twice, first from the yoke of Japanese colonialism 60 years ago this summer and secondly through the brilliant execution of the Inchon landing 55 years ago this month. Our critical bilateral alliance was forged in the crucible of Inchon. The common sacrifices, goals, and achievements which sprang out of Inchon form, in our opinion, the continuing basis for our alliance. We presume that the government of the Republic of Korea shares this view of the critical importance fo the Inchon Landing and the leadership of General Douglas MacArthur.

(…)

In the chamber of the US House of Representatives, directly behind the speaker’s podium hang two portraits. On one side is that of a foreign friend, a soldier who came from a far to assist in the common cause of American independence. That portrait is of the Marquis de Lafayette. For more than 200 years his memory has been implanted deep in the hearts of the American people. We would hope that General MacArthur is so remembered in the hearts of the South Korean people.

Not to be out done the British ambassador to Korea had plenty to say as well:

“I have been saddened to read that a group of protestors attacked and called for the removal of the statue of the U.S. general MacArthur in Incheon. The statue was erected to commemorate the Incheon Landing, which he led, and which was one of the most decisive interventions of the Korean War. British naval vessels were among those involved. By attacking his statue and his memory, these protestors are also denigrating ALL those foreign soldiers under the UN command, who came to fight alongside South Korea in that war. There were men and women from more than 20 nations involved, including my own. Tens of thousands of them gave their lives so that South Korea should remain free and independent. Without the fierce allied fighting that followed there was a real chance that South Korea, by then pinned down to Busan, would have been overrun.

“None of us can change our country’s history. What happened, happened, and we should respect the right for people to demonstrate peacefully, but these protestors risk alienating more than just American friends. I am glad there have been some firmly-worded editorials, and that a number of leading figures, including Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon, have spoken up. They need to, and strongly, if good friends of Korea and war veterans from many countries are not to feel insulted.”

With North Korean agents leading protests to tear down the MacArthur statue and create a wedge in the US-ROK alliance what does the ruling Uri Party chairman do? Blame the conservative groups protecting the statue of course:

Ruling Uri Party chairman Moon Hee-sang said Sunday the dispute over a statue of U.S. general Douglas MacArthur in Incheon was “a clash between civic organizations,” but some media outlets and conservative forces blew it out of proportion for reasons of their own. They “sow distrust and friction between Korea and the United States on the pretext of being concerned about the Korea-U.S. alliance,” he said.

With this arrest of a North Korean spy it is also important to remember those in the Korean government and media that were complicit in this obvious North Korean sponsored attempt to create a wedge in the US-ROK alliance. The only thing I find surprising about the spy arrest is why it took so long to uncover it?

HT: One Free Korea

Via Lost Nomad, Cindy Sheehan has resurfaced once again, now in Time Asia. You will need a strong stomach to read all this:

Why are you in South Korea?
I was invited by several peace groups and farmers from Daechu-ri to help them with their [campaign against] U.S. military-base expansion. I think a lot of areas would be more stable if the U.S. military presence wasn’t so overwhelming; we have 700 bases around the world. I think [U.S.] military expansion is out of control and rampant militarism is responsible for my son’s death, as it is for taking away the land from these people in this village.

What do you hope to accomplish in South Korea?
Most people here think George Bush is a greater threat to stability than Kim Jong Il. Our goal is to go back to America and be the voice of the people in South Korea. We also want the people here to know that not even the majority of Americans support George Bush.

Do you want the U.S. to get out of South Korea?
I think that’s what the majority of South Koreans want. Our government in the U.S. is demonizing North Korea. People in South Korea see the North as their brothers and sisters. [They] want reunification, but don’t believe that will happen while the U.S. is here.

Read here and here where I have already debunked her claims about US military expansion and militarism in South Korea. I do have to say I’m amazed she at least knows who Kim Jong-il is. I bet she would fail the advanced quiz if I asked her who Kim Il-sung is or what year the Korean War started.

Anyway her last comment just shows how incompetent she is about the situation on the Korean peninsula. I guess she believes her two days in Korea hanging out with North Korean sponsored leftists makes her an expert on South Korean affairs. The US is the one who wants unification more than the South Korean government and people do. South Koreans will always say they want unification but just not anytime soon if it means they cannot drive a Hyundai, buy a 12th story apartment, or take their vacations to Guam anymore because of the cost of rebuilding North Korea.

President Bush’s North Korea policies are designed to isolate and collapse the regime while the South Korean policies are designed to prop up and prevent the collapse of the regime. She also fails to realize that according to her North Korean sponsored leftist friends, they want the US to leave Korea so unification can happen on North Korean terms. If that happens I just hope Sheehan is there at the DMZ to welcome the North Korean troops. Sheehan is clearly a useful idiot.

Code Pink leader Medea Benjamin who was recently in Korea, you know Cindy Sheehan’s friend that can’t spell, has an interview in Oh My News posted. I’ll warn you now that you will need a strong stomach and I do mean a really strong stomach to read it. After reading the article I don’t know who the bigger Israel hater is, the interviewer Christopher Brown or Benjamin? Nancy Pelosi is not even enough of a liberal wacko for these people, so you have been warned, read with caution.

I think Nomad is right, maybe Cindy Sheehan did want to get some Taco Bell after all. From the Stars and Stripes:

Peace activist Cindy Sheehan and a handful of other Americans on Tuesday afternoon held their passports in front of South Korean riot police outside a main gate onto Yongsan Garrison, requesting a meeting with U.S. Forces Korea’s commanding general.

Their blue booklets and their chants for the U.S. military to halt base expansion plans south of Seoul went unanswered during the 40-minute long protest.

“My father served at this base,” Sheehan said as she stood in front of Gate 5 at Yongsan Garrison. “I have the right as an American to come onto this base.”

No Ms. Sheehan you don’t have the right to enter a US military installation because only US military ID card holders are allowed on post or you can have a valid ID card holder sign you in on post. Better yet maybe you can become a Yongsan housekeeper; that appears to be the easiest way to get an ID card now a days. Then again that would mean you would have to work for living instead of getting your free hand outs from your rich liberal puppet masters. If she is getting all this money through a non-profit I would love to see the book keeping because aren’t non-profits supposed to disclose their finances? I would love to see if she pays any taxes on anything considering the lifestyle she is now living.

Secondly you should be deported from Korea because as the lawyer Brendon Carr noted, foreigners on a tourist visa cannot conduct political activity in Korea. I’m sure the Korean government is just letting her get away this because they don’t want to get any bad press and figure she will just go away as quickly as she popped up.

UPDATE: The Marmot’s Hole now has more on “Pyongyang Cindy” as well.

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Who in Korea approved her entry into South Korea?:

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan visited a village near Camp Humphreys on Monday night in a show of “solidarity” with local residents opposing the installation’s expansion.

Sheehan was part of a group of about 20 activists from the United States who are in South Korea this week to oppose the expansion project and a proposed South Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement.

The camp is set to triple in size in coming years and become the U.S. military’s main installation on the peninsula.

Some local residents backed by South Korean anti-US activists have been resisting the expansion since 2005.

What does Cindy Sheehan know about South Korea? Absolutely nothing. As Pelgasius noted, she can’t even make up her own signs. This picture is absolutely priceless:

Her is my favorite quote from Sheehan’s sister:

Sheehan’s sister Dede Miller, of Los Angeles, told the audience, “I’m just very sorry for what my country is doing to yours.”

(Note sarcasm on) Yes I as an American am very sorry about everything the my country has done to Korea as well, especially the ending of 35 years of Japanese colonial rule that costs hundreds of thousands of lives during World War II, the sacrifice of 33,000+ lives during the Korean War to save the country from communism, 55 years of peace, security assistance, and economic development that has brought South Korea’s to the 11th strongest economy in the world and one of the best global standards of living. Yes we as Americans have a lot to be ashamed of.

Do these wackos know that the US is reducing it’s military footprint in Korea from 41 camps to 10? Do they know the Koreans are making a huge net gain in land from all the USFK base closures including some of the most valuable property in all of Korea, Yongsan Garrison in downtown Seoul? Do they know that the vast majority of Daechu-ri villagers left freely and that the majority of the people of Pyeongtaek want the base consolidation and they also want the protesters gone. Has she even seen polls that show that 8 in 10 Koreans oppose the protesters while 7 in 10 approve of the camp consolidation? Does she and her cronies know that they are being used by people linked to North Korean spies? Than again she is friends with Hugo Chavez so why shouldn’t she be friends with Kim Jong-il as well?

Oh My News also has more on the Cindy Sheehan visit:

The sign she is holding says from my limited Korean skills something like renegotiate the Camp Humphreys expansion. Native speakers feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

Mark’s comment at Lost Nomad best summarizes this whole thing:

Maybe she can go up north and pose on a nork 57mm antiaircraft gun wearing a nork helmet?

Is there anyone more hypocritical and self absorbed than this woman? Make sure you read more at Lost Nomad and DPRK Studies.

From the Stars and Stripes:

South Korean Ministry of Environment officials have not decided whether to appeal the Seoul Administrative Court’s decision Wednesday that the results of environmental contamination research at the U.S. Army’s former Camp Page must be made public.

The Ministry of Environment’s Sung Soo-ho said Thursday that “at this point, we are examining the matter, including if we will appeal … the court’s decision.”

Court officials were unavailable for comment Thursday.

The Chuncheon Peoples’ Solidarity civic group, backed by the environmentalist organization Green Korea United, filed the lawsuit seeking the results earlier this summer, according to local news reports.

I for one hope they release the findings with the names and techniques used to determine the pollution. Here are some of the complaints from the anti-US hate environmental groups that just continue to be laughable with their claims:

In February, Green Korea and some media outlets said they acquired leaked Ministry of the Environment data that showed unsafe ground and water contamination levels at several sites. They included camps Page, Garry Owen, Greaves, Stanton, Edwards, Giant, Falling Water and Howze, the Kimpo post terminal, the Freedom Bridge and the Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and North Carolina firing ranges.

Can you believe that firing ranges have lead contamination? I tell you I am shocked! What is even more laughable about this is that the firing ranges are not used exclusively by USFK but by the ROK Army as well. Why isn’t the ROK Army being investigated for pollution? I found the inclusion of Freedom Bridge even funnier because USFK soldiers guarded that bridge. How the heck do soldiers pulling guard duty which also includes Koreans by the way, pollute a bridge to the point that these environmentalists say it is unsafe for the public? If this bridge is unsafe than every bridge in Korea needs to be shut down!

That is why I say release the pollution findings with detailed data to check for errors because I wouldn’t be surprised if the findings were “Dr. Hwang-ed” for political reasons especially when these so call environmental groups have been linked to North Korean spies.

If USFK really wanted to prove a point they should have environmenal studies conducted by their own researchers on USFK bases compared to the surrounding communities. Does anyone think for example that Yongsan Garrison is more dangerous to the environment than Seoul?

If you need a t-shirt to display your anti-Americanism, than a Canadian in Itaewon has one for you:

Alleyway T-shirt vendors in the Itaewon district have a new competitor. The new must-have shirts read I’m not migook on the front, and on the back in Korean, “I am not an American.” Since the shirts first turned up at a shop in front of the neighborhood Starbucks in the middle of last month, more than 100 of the shirts have been sold every five days. The man who brought the thoughtful product into the world is a 31-year-old named Michael Kenny who would like to make it clear that he is Canadian.

However, Mr. Kenny claims this is all in good fun and he is not anti-American:

Worry no. 2 is that people tend to associate the shirts with anti-Americanism. He says quite a few people have challenged him about the message. But his response is: Oh, there’s nothing to it. It’s all just good fun. American whites are Caucasians, but that doesn’t mean all Caucasians are Americans. Now, wouldn’t it be nice if Koreans knew that too?

Now would he sell t-shirts to people of black skin color saying that they are not Nigerians?  Or better yet maybe he should start selling t-shirts that say “I’m not a Low Quality English Teacher”.  What’s the difference between this hate speech and bashing Americans?