Thursday - November 23, 2006

Kraziness Goes To Korea

The Cindy Media Whore 2006 world tour continues this week in South Korea to sold out audiences of riot police, military police and the usual crowd of brain-dead liberals attempting to alleviate their painful existence in a life of mediocrity. It’s bad enough that we have to put up with Kim Jung Il and his pathetic attempts to get attention with his firecrackers but now Sheehan has to go to Korea to try to upstage the madman.

Don’t these people have jobs? Where do they get the money to go on tour around the world with this insanity?  Was Cindy Sheehan neglected as a child and now must make up for it with this performance for the cameras? Does this crazy woman have no shame or sense of dignity? Is it any wonder Casey ran away from her and joined the Army?

I know. I ask way too many questions. Maybe Cindy will sneak across the DMZ and hook up with Kim Jung Il. Now that would be newsworthy. Can you imagine the offspring from that union? Wait! Do not, under any circumstances, attempt to create any visual images at this point ...

US Activists Protest Larger South Korea Bases
_{SEOUL (AFP) - Tue Nov 21, 9:01 AM ET}

A group of US peace activists led by Cindy Sheehan staged a protest outside the headquarters of American troops, urging a halt to the relocation of US military bases in South Korea.

The 18 protesters led by Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq more than two years ago, rallied outside Yongsan Garrison after their request to see the commander in chief of US forces in Korea, General Burwell Bell, was turned down.

They tried to make their way through dozens of South Korean riot police carrying shields who were blocking access to the gate.

Shouting slogans such as “Stop US military base expansion!” and “Stop repression in Pyeongtaek!” the protesters held up their US passports and asked police to get out of their way.

The US forces want to consolidate 35 US bases scattered across South Korea into two hub bases by 2008—one in Pyeongtaek, 70 kilometers (45 miles) south of Seoul, and the other in Daegu City, 300 kilometers southeast of the capital.

Yongsan is among the bases which will close. The construction of a US base at Pyeongtaek has met strong protests from activists and villagers who have to be evacuated from their homes or farmland.

“Believe me, we will be passing along these concerns (of villagers) to the Pentagon, to the Congress, to the people of America and we will be doing every thing we can as Americans to correct this situation in South Korea,” Sheehan told journalists.

Medea Benjamin, founder of Code Pink, a US women’s peace organization, said: “There is no way that I feel my family will be more secure or that Korean families will feel more secure by expanding the Camp Humphreys base (in Pyeongtaek) and taking land from people who have farmed there for generations.”

The group travelled to Pyeongtaek on Monday and joined some 100 people from Daechuri village for their 820th consecutive candlelight vigil against the expansion of the base.

South Korea hosts some 29,500 US troops under a mutual defense treaty signed following the 1950-1953 Korean War.

Posted by The Skipper     on 11/23/2006 at 04:35 AM   
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