Cindy Sheehan on Daechuri
If you want to make up for my complete lack of posting about the continuing struggle against US base expansion that is going on in and around the village of Daechuri near P’yongt’aek, then check out Cindy Sheehan’s article at ZNet on her recent visit there. Very strong stuff and absolutely guaranteed to make a large part of the Korean expat blogosphere foam at the mouth and turn purple in a most unattractive way:
In the ’80’s, Ronald Reagan famously said: “tear it down!” regarding the Berlin Wall. There are many more walls on Earth that separate people from their farmlands, families, jobs and country that need to be torn own, but so-called civilized nations are building more walls and fortifications to contain and control free human movement and expression and curb populations that are just trying to live their lives in the traditional ways that they always have.
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Daechuri has become “ground zero” in the struggle against violent US military extremism. We Americans can no longer sit idly by and turn ignorant blind eyes to what Georgie Bushie does around the globe. The people of such places as Daechuri, Shannon, Pearl Harbor and Iraq are
our brothers and sisters whom we are allowing our governments to oppress and suppress.
(I like the way she’s picked up on the Korean pronunciation of Bush - v funny.)
UPDATE: For lots of foamy purpleness please see the comments at Marmot’s post on this. (I just love it when my predictions come true.) Don’t expect any actual argument over there though…
A pendantic note for Mr Carr: the pronunciation ‘Bushie’ is not an “artifact of accent” but an artifact of Korean orthography related to the way in which English words ending in ’sh’ are rendered in han’gul.
I take it you buy into Sheehan’s perfectly uninformed take on the base consolidation issue, then?
Comment by slim — December 1, 2006 @ 1:18 pm
I like that term, “foamy purpleness.” I need to use it more.
Comment by The Marmot — December 2, 2006 @ 6:24 am
And moving the troops out of Yongsan base to a site chosen jointly by the Koran and U.S. governments equates to “US military extremism” how? Ah, never mind… Cindiland!
Comment by lirelou — February 12, 2007 @ 11:21 pm
Is that next door to Rummy World then?
Comment by kotaji — February 12, 2007 @ 11:37 pm