Saturday, January 16, 2010

What the ... acquittal?

Ok, this news story is bizarre but because of the court decision not the lack of journalistic ability of the Korea Times.

As a result of one of the riots inside the Korean parliament last year Democratic Labor Party representative Kang Ki-Kab (any relation to Kang Shinwho?) was indicted for using violence to try and disrupt proceedings concerning the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement. He is one of the morons you saw on TV using a sledgehammer to destroy furniture and trying to break a door down.

Well, in it's infinite stupidity the Korean legal system has exonerated him. Even though there is video of the mook in the act he is not guilty? By what stretch of reality could a judge find him not guilty? Well, to paraphrase presiding judge Lee Dong-Yeon, even though Kang used violence in his "protest" he didn't intend to harm anyone. He only intended to enter the room. What the kimchi??????

What great logic, or lack thereof. So, if I protest the stupidity of Korean taxi drivers who block crosswalks with violence, but I only smash their car up and don't intend to harm the driver that is ok? After all, I only intend to use the cross walk and get to the other side.

Sweeeeeeet.

Flint clacks three soju bottles together and chants: "Taxi Drivers ... come out to playyyyyy!"

I suppose such a stupid decision shouldn't be much of a surprise when you consider how poorly the courts deal with child rapists and CEO's. Korean judges .... mooks in robes or simply ricetardic?. Or both?




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