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1. While the S.K. ruling class and its gov't is assuming that the protest movement is "short before the final collapse", the 'security forces' are threaten now another part of the society with repressions:
☞ Police Warn Religious Leaders Over Candlelit Protests (K. Times, 7.07)

2. Last week Scot B. (www.kingbaeksu.com) published following interesting(*) impression/view about the recent protest events in Seoul(**):

Tonight I walked to City Hall at around 7:30pm and was disgusted by what I saw. A group at Ch'onggye Plaza was protesting human rights abuses in China, but all of 5 people were stopping to listen to a speech that was being made. Nearby, on the corner by Seoul Finance Center, another group was protesting against global warming and advocating green living and vegetarianism, but again nobody was even listening. Then I went to City Hall, and it was flooded by people listening to a monk give a speech about the need to renegotiate the beef deal. I'm sorry, but why is a vegetarian monk promoting eating beef at all? Shouldn't he be calling for outright cancellation?

I left after a few minutes and spoke with the anti-global warming people once again. They had a large-screen TV showing how cows produce methane gas which in turn increases global warming. I spoke with the nice halmoni there for a while and asked her what she thought of the beef issue. At first she said she didn't care because she was a vegetarian, but then after some prodding, she said, "Those people have low consciousness" and went on to talk about how traditionally Koreans didn't even eat much meat, and that the cattle industry in both the US and Korea was harming the environment in serious ways. I agree with her completely. She ended by saying, "Those people don't seem to really understand what's going on in the world we live in. All I want to do is give some information about the Earth." Too bad nobody really cared about what she had to say, because they were all too busy protesting their right to cram their faces with "safe" beef at City Hall.

Well, if they are really as radical as they fancy themselves to be, they should simply announce that they will stop eating beef entirely and start actually giving a fuck about the environment for a change. I mean, I cannot even begin to imagine how much trash has been generated by two months of daily protests comprising millions of people.

I must say that while 2MB certainly sucks, this movement is starting to seem more and more morally bankrupt the closer I look at it...

Well, it’s a very long post, and must be read in its entirety:

Yesterday during a "conversation" with Jamie (TwoKoreasBlog) he wrote following:

"..I have to say that at this point, this whole protest movement can be characterized as the Korean left being sore losers.

They fucked up in the last elections (Dec. '07 and April '08), but that's their fault not Lee's. An equivalent analogy would be if a runner lost a marathon race because he didn't prepare or train hard enough beforehand, and then blamed the winner for his loss.

Again, at this point they're simply being sore losers. Everyone knew what Lee was about prior to the Dec. election. The progressives and the left here have no one to blame but themselves.

Last night people were telling me in all seriousness that Lee needed to be assassinated."

* Well, that's interesting, but - probably - it's not reflecting the entire "reality"...

** Related stuff (incl. nearly 100 comments to Scot B's impressions):

☞ Excellent Commentary on Demonstrations (The Marmot's Hole)