It's so weird. After the demonstrations here in Korea this past summer, the cops did all kinds of raids and busts, intimidating company that hosted the streaming netizen vids and all and Buddhist monks who gave sanctuary to the planners, and so on. And nobody really seemed to see anything wrong with the government accusing them of, well, essentially organizing protests (apparently illegal here if the President doesn't like it). Nobody seemed to stand up and say, "What? What the hell? How can raiding and arresting organizers be legal?"
And here I was thinking in the US this would be a huge media event and people over there would be thoroughly outraged. sigh I guess I'm naive.
The monks thing reminds me: couldn't churches open up their doors to provide an un-raidable space? I assume some sort of right of sanctuary still exists, especially when there's no evidence of wrongdoing. Maybe someone should be calling out for churches in Minneapolis to do the right thing?
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Date: 2008-09-02 03:41 pm (UTC)And here I was thinking in the US this would be a huge media event and people over there would be thoroughly outraged. sigh I guess I'm naive.
The monks thing reminds me: couldn't churches open up their doors to provide an un-raidable space? I assume some sort of right of sanctuary still exists, especially when there's no evidence of wrongdoing. Maybe someone should be calling out for churches in Minneapolis to do the right thing?