Korea is not a democracy.

It is a business-government: Korean private industry in bed with government; designed to drain resources from America — and exploit the Korean masses hypnotized with notions of Korean glory and its vindication.

Roh is a fascist victocrat that Koreans lust after. He taps into the Korean mythology of victimization, giving permission to engage in recreational rage (the true function of anti-Americanism.)

They call him president: but his function after re-instatement will be emperor.

Koreans love nothing more than to be embraced in the motherly arms of a mass-group and shake a fist at the world under the approving eye of a Korean king. Koreans are not made for democracy.

That is all Koreans really want — a chance to smear kimchee over their naked bodies and lop off a few heads — or, realistically, see people jumping off bridges and buildings. It’s a party!

Silly Sally

You are quite the citizen, but think of the “peaceful demonstrations” as a Korean civil-rights movement engaged in class-warfare.

The meaning of the crowds is an ominous message: “No Justice, No Peace.” It’s as peaceful as the quiet North Korean guns pointed at Seoul.

Roh will be re-instated not as a president, but — emperor. Ominously backed by a mobocracy - the reign of terror will make the French revolution look tame. The national blade will fall on many.

As a person who has fired off untold numbers of letters to elected officials to complain and express concerns throughout my entire life, I was really surprised. Not to brag or anything, but I’ve been contacting my elected representatives since grade school.

My first experience was as a 10-year-old writing Jimmy Carter in the White House for a fourth-grade assignment. That one-paged handwritten letter on wide-ruled notebook paper resulted in a huge envelope arriving on my doorstep three weeks later with a “1600 Pennsylvania Avenue” return address next to a full-color White-House Seal.

Inside the envelope was a letter on official Presidential letterhead signed by Jimmy (I don’t know if it was actually real, but it certainly looked so to a fourth grader), with several official glossy photographs and brochures to boot.

In later years, I wrote letters to various U.S. representatives, senators, legislators as well as state, county and city officials. Most of my letters were written regarding specific issues, to solve problems I was encountering with the bureacracy, and sometimes, just to make my voice heard. Did I get results 100% of the time? No. However, I can say that I did get responses 100% of the time. Can this happen in Korea? I don’t see why not!

Quite honestly, I don’t even know if letter writing would garner the attention of Korean public officials. But as Jimmy Stewart’s character proved in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” letters, mailed en masse to elected officials, tend to make an impression. You could perhaps ignore one bag of mail sitting in your office as a fat-cat National Assemblyman. However, you wouldn’t be able to ignore bags upon bags of constituent letters arriving at a consistent pace day after day after day! You’d have to hire staff to open the letters, and you’d have to make at least a perfunctory effort in responding to them. The bottom line is, letters to public officials pave the way for accountability, and make a statement at the grass roots level that the voice of the people must be heard. Public officials just can’t ignore bags of mail piling up in front of their offices day after day after day, and that’s a certainty — at least in a democracy.

In terms of getting the Korean government’s ear, BB postings in the final analysis are not effective, and are in reality just a black hole of mindless complaints.

Mass demonstrations + street violence, while effective in toppling the military regime back in 1987, have lost the support of the masses, especially the middle class.

Now, 16 years later, we have mass rallies + nonviolent confrontations — basically the same tactics repackaged a’la candlelight vigils and protest songs to boot.

When are Koreans going to wake up that the old tactics don’t work anymore? Koreans keep on insisting ad nauseum they are an “information society”. How ’bout proving it with substance? I daresay that one intelligently written letter to selected national assemblymen and/or ministry officials would do more to express the voice of the people than wasting a lot of energy blocking traffic night after night.

BB postings on government-sponsored or NGO-sponsored message boards can be ignored. Mass rallies can be quelled and are invariably forgotten about soon after their conclusion.

On the other hand, a personally signed and intelligently written letter to a national assemblyman or government minister is the first step in expressing the voice of the people — at least that’s how it’s done in democracies.

Hey Koreans who are interested in advancing democracy in Korea: Instead of marching all over the place and wasting your time, write your elected officials, express your concerns, let them know who you are, and hold them accountable! Wake up people and get smart!

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As I argue on my site, these gatherings are becoming perfunctory and meaningless. Maturity requires better tactics!

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This impeachment business is all BS. if the constitutional court doesn’t fix it, then there will defineately be violence.