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...you can read here(3.2, K. Times):
Foreign Prisoners Cherish Freedom
Coming to Korea with baskets of aspiring dreams has turned into barrels of dreaded nightmares for some. For many foreigners, Korea is a place to experience a different culture and also a destination to earn a decent living. Mostly this is true, but for others these innocent expectations have been met with difficult despair. Guilty of illegal behavior or victims of injustice, there are foreigners who have been sent to Taejon Prison.
A total of about 4,000 inmates are serving time, including roughly 300 foreign prisoners from 45 different countries. The alleged crime in question is usually divided along national lines: Malaysians, credit card fraud; Vietnamese, theft; Mongolians, manslaughter; and Westerners, drugs. Compared to Koreans, foreigners typically receive harsher sentences for identical crimes, but of the foreigners Westerners usually get lighter sentences than those from elsewhere.
According to extensive correspondence and interesting interviews with a vast array of foreign prisoners, their experience is a sobering reminder for everyone to cherish freedom. Assigned to cells aligned like the cramped quarters of the slave ships of the 17th century, two inmates share a cell with living quarters measuring no more than 4’ by 7’.
These circumstances are just the beginning of their punishing ordeal. A typical day begins with the theme song from “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” piped into cells at 6:30 a.m. Without pillows, they awake with stiff necks and rise from their unheated wooden floor. A few minutes later all the prisoners must be fully dressed for their “in cell” inspection.
At 7 a.m. they are served breakfast that more than one prisoner says “they just manage to eat.” The menu stays the same everyday ㅡ a glass of juice, one fried egg, and four slices of bread with jam. Lunch and dinner consists of rice served with some type of dish, like chicken curry or boiled zucchini.
To receive their three daily meals, each one is served through a hole in the concrete. With the end of breakfast, Korean radio is blared into cells until 9 p.m. to entertain the prisoners with basically the same halfdozen Korean folk songs everyday.
After breakfast the prisoners wait for their 30-minute exercise period, which they receive five days per week. During this time outside, they get one cold shower a day from Monday to Friday in the summer. Throughout the winter, they get one hot shower per week in a large communal shower room. Inmates must purchase towels, soap and toothpaste. However, once every few months they get a free bar of soap, a toothbrush, toothpaste and one roll of toilet paper.
For those inmates not working in textile factories, the rest of the days are mostly spent reading, writing or sleeping. This solitude is done to encourage them to “volunteer” to work in prison factories. If one is working in the factories, then more privileges are extended. For example, the workers receive “perks” such as activities on the weekend, one hour of exercise, a small wage and some snacks.
Faced with the choice of being isolated in a cell or to work in exchange for receiving bonuses, most people might wonder why a prisoner would choose not to work. According to one self-confessed murderer, the work is not difficult but foreign factory workers complain of discrimination at the hands of Korean workers. Moreover, the ones running the factories prefer not to have foreigners because of the language barrier when issuing work orders. In addition, based on prison regulations, convicted individuals sentenced for less than two years are not eligible for such labor.
If a prisoner is assigned to factories run by the prison, then they receive 20,000 won per month. If run by outsiders, the management gives 400,000 won for the monthly work . the prison keeps 50 percent and gives the remaining half to the inmate. Even though most foreigners ply their efforts in the lower-paying factory scenario, the prison has a 95 percent employment rate.
The inmates also get out of their cells for two hours twice a week to watch a Korean film one time and a foreign film the other. Periodically they will also get two hours out of the cell on Monday mornings when volunteers from KAIST go to teach Korean.
Although this training might make their life more bearable on the inside as the guards speak Korean, most foreigners consider this a senseless exercise since they will be deported and will probably never use the language again. English and Chinese courses are offered, but not to foreigners because a prison worker claims that “there are not enough resources.” Therefore, unless an inmate works at a factory, he will spend an average of 23.5 hours a day in what prisoners have referred to as “shoebox cells like a coffin.”
With these types of limitations and many prisoners “pleading that the Korean government give them more opportunities,” inmates look forward to contact with the outside world. They are allowed to make three-minute monitored phone calls after completing most of their sentence.
They also get four seven-minute visits a month with a guard present and through Plexiglas.
After all of this, the foreign prisoners are released to immigration officials upon the completion of their sentence. If they cannot afford to pay for a plane ticket home they can then spend up to six months in an immigration detention center before being banned from Korea for five years*.
This restriction likely does not influence their future plans as at last they are free. Free to never look back. Free to enjoy the cherished freedoms they lost.
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200603/kt2006030118162368040.htm
* hey mark: spaetestens mo. abend werden wir ja sehen, ob da was dran ist!!??..^^
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Well, dream more!!
K. Crimson, 21st Century Schizoid Man
My Suggestion..
..because we, as the anti-war movement, can't change nothing anymore(ae~ I mean I'm just worrying...)..
In Iraq there are huge areas of desert... It would be really nice if there all this m..f.., such as the so-called resistance fighters, all the sunni and the shia islamic fascists, all the occupiers(well, if the s. korean troops wanna have fun, why not they too??!!) could gather there, everyone takes a M16, AK47, or whatever, some hand grenades... and they should finish their f.. stuff there... AND LEAVE THE ORDINARY IRAQI - THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN, THE WORKERS AND FARMERS... - ALONE - FOREVER!!!
But it's just a damn dream... And because of that we have to fight daily for the world revo... HARRHARR!!
Four Jobs I’ve had in my life?(일생에 가졌던 네 개의 직업)
Wow, much more than four:
optician
stone-cutter/sculptor
male nurse/welfare(social) worker
"professional(harrharr) revolutionary"(^^)..
I can watch over and over?(몇 번이나 다시 볼 수 있는 네 가지 영화)
TAKE CARE OF MY CAT()
THE STRAWBERRY STATEMENT(US 1969)
MOROSKO(SU 1964)
OGON, WODA I MEDNYE TRUBY(SU, 1968)..^^
Four places I have lived?(살았던 적이 있는 네 곳의 장소)
E. Germany
W. Germany/W. Berlin/Unified F... Germany
Palestine
南朝鮮, 서울+안양
Four TV shows I love to watch?(좋아하는 네 가지 TV 프로그램)
Well, since many years I have no TV
Four places I have been on vacation?(휴가 중 갔었던 네 곳의 장소)
Bulgaria
Greece
Denmark
Gangwon-do...
Four websites I visit daily?(매일 방문하는 네 개의 웹싸이트)
Der Spiegel
Haaretz
Jinbonet
IHT...
Four of my favorite foods?(가장 좋아하는 네 가지 음식)
감자탕&Soju^^!!
Well, but usualy I don’t eat...^^
Four places I would rather be right now?(지금 있고 싶은 네 곳의 장소)
East Asia
南朝鮮
Seoul
...well, just at home!!!(at least not in Berlin!!)
Four bloggers I’m tagging(태그를 넘기는 네 명의 블로거)
쥬느
거타지
^0^, but finally just for to get daily angry+sad..
imc korea...
"Ai Du", Ali Farka+Ry Cooder
祝賀
축하 - 하하
블로그 방문자가 벌써 50,000명이다.
THANX, dear dongji(同志^^) for visiting my blog!!
고맙습니다!!
...Just Insanity, No Mistakes!
Just one day after Hamas' victory of the general election in the PA territories the so-called Anti-imperialist Camp(they call themselves 'communists') published following text:
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"We congratulate Hamas for its victory!
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Palestinian people refuse collaboration with Zionist occupation http://www.antiimperialista.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4126&Itemid=55
I THINK THERE IS NO FURTHER COMMENT NECESSARY!? | ||
...But The Insanity Isn't New!
"According to researches since the end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war Arab newspapers started to publish Anti-semitic 'caricatures'. The first drawings were mostly tasteless imitates of 'caricatures' in the Nazi propaganda, but later they got more hateful", Der Spiegel, 2.15.
The following are just a few of examples of anti-Semitism in the Muslim and Arab press, including cartoons that have appeared both before and during the recent(caricature) controversy:
Al-Watan,
Translation: "The
Al-Wifaq,
Translation: The JewishIsraeli devil is saying: "I don't admit the limits of freedom of speech except the Holocaust."
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Web Site of the Arab European League (
A perverse allusion on the Diary of Anne Frank
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Akhbar al-Khalij
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Al-Ittihad
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Al-Watan
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Al-Bayan,
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Al-Yawm
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Ar-Rai
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Al-Watan
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Tishrin,
Apirl 21, 2002 (
Here you can read a Israeli voice about it, published in today's(2.12) edition of Ynet/Yediot Ahronot. I. Linor, the writer is a Israeli leftist..
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3212503,00.html
(There are many talkbacks - just read them!)
Anti-Semitism now
Two years ago the Israel Film Foundation refused funding for Paradise Now. Here's why
Irit Linor
Two years ago, the creators of Paradise Now asked the Israel Film Foundation for public funding to help produce the film. They were turned down thanks to a number of reviewers—including myself—who were taken aback by its moral character.
Thus, Israel missed out on the chance to be part to an exciting, quality Nazi film.
I don't use the term "Nazi" frivolously or out of anger. Such a claim must be backed up, particularly when the subject is a film that conforms to all the criteria of quality filmmaking, and which barely contains any Jews. One could, perhaps, have been content with the phrase "anti-Israel" or "anti-Semitic.
But the film hasn't got any "Jews" in it and no "Israel," because Jewish Israel is referred to in the film as "them," or "occupation," or "killing" or an "injustice" that has no historic background or human form.
Ugly Jews
The only Jewish Israeli given a name is called Abu Shabab, the man who takes the terrorists to Tel Aviv and receives payment only after the terror attack (or "operation," in the film's phrasing) takes place. As he takes the terrorists to the Dolphinarium parking lot, the only Hebrew word in the film escapes his lips as he wishes the murderers "good luck."
And so, in just a few seconds, Beyer and Abu-Assad manage to define the Israeli, that is, the caricature Jew: fat, ugly, older, bearded, hungry for young Aryan girls and prepared to do anything for money.
Why use a Jewish Israeli character for this role, when there have been no more than three Jewish collaborators over more than 1000 terror attacks, and in fact most of the Israelis who do aid terror are Arab? How did the creators come to surrender their link to reality? Was it artistic or ideological?
No choice
And since all the participants in the film repeatedly emphasize that all peaceful Palestinian efforts at solving the problems of occupation and ethnic cleansing have failed, and that there is therefore no alternative but to conduct suicide "operations," the film's subtext suggests a solution to the problem: mass murder.
And so we can rightly call "Paradise Now" a Nazi film: it spins a thin thread of understanding for those who resorted to desperate measures to solve the problem of the constant, unremitting evil of the Jews.
No Victims
And who are the suicide bombers in the film? They are no more than innocent victims of an occupation devoid of reason or purpose. Forget politics – at the film's conclusion, I was sadder about hottie Kais Nashef in the role of the suicide bomber than I was about a bunch of statistics in the role of Israelis on a Tel Aviv bus, most of whom were soldiers, as is the norm on Tel Aviv buses, and who we didn't even see die.
The suicide bombing to which the innocent heroes go is an act that, from its genesis to its conclusion, is devoid of victims. There may not even be a bombing, just a close-up on Nashef's soft eyes, and a white screen. Not even a 'boom.'
Maybe in the end he just changed his mind. The two murderers are kind, their clothes – Tarantino style – fit them well, so you like them. How could you not?
Likeable killers
We liked Jackson and Travolta in "Pulp Fiction," and they, too, where murderers who wore the tailored suits. Tarantino prepared the ground for us to like barbaric killers, and to feel good about it.
So although true "martyrs" don't usually appear wearing suits, that's how Hany Abu-Assad chose to portray them. He knew the image it presents.
"Ah, come on," the critics will say, "that's propaganda? What do you mean? It's homage! At most, they'll argue whether the clothes came from "Pulp Fiction" or the "Blues Brothers.”
Another purely artistic consideration was the banding together of hotties Kais Nashef and Ali Suliman in the role of the murderers. I'd have to rack my brain to recall the martyr who could have sidelined as a male model.
But there we've got Kais as one of the bombers, and it's clear that whoever causes him to suffer ought to be punished.
Humble terrorist
It is purely out of artistic considerations, of course, that he recites his ideological speech – some lying, sanctimonious Hamas drivel – not with fanatic shouting, but rather with humility, sadness.
This is no Hitler in a stadium, but rather a delicate wildflower, ravaged by the spring winds – and by the occupation, of course, which is a ritual cleansing bath for every Palestinian moral blight.
The girl who opposes the suicide bombings (and who is also madly attracted to Kais) opposes it so vehemently not because she is opposed to killing civilians but rather because "it just gives them (that is, the Israeli root of evil) the alibi to continue killing."
In other words: it just isn't practical. And she's the humanist in the film. She's also cute.
Out of artistic considerations, the taxi driver in the film explains to Nashef that the settlers poisoned the wells by Nablus in order to harm the quality of Palestinian offspring. Nashef doesn't raise an eyebrow. Neither will viewers abroad. They've already internalized the link between Jews and well poisoning.
The bomber is me
The message of "Paradise Now" is simple: We're all people, even mass murderers." You see, anyone has the potential to blow up children and babies in a restaurant. It can happen to anyone, like dandruff.
The movie is a success because of the sophisticated direction of Hany Abu-Assad. There is no blood, and Nablus apartments with exposed cinderblock walls look every bit as romantic as a Tuscan villa. Everything is so beautiful, it's clear the terrorists are just like us, just with more tastefully decorated homes.
And again the message is clear: if these people can become murderers – than clearly so could I.
Out of artistic considerations, you understand, Hany Abu-Assad doesn't linger on the less photogenic aspects that can lead someone to commit mass murder – a distorted mentality of honor, an anti-Semitic education, Islamic radicalism, the cheapening of human life.
He only sells us a humanity whose outer characteristics we find palatable: young heroes, sweet families – like us – not religious fanatics, but marginally traditional, t-shirt wearing secular folk. You know, just like us.
But that's not wholly accurate, because the two murderers of "Paradise Now" aren't quite like us, nor are they like most other Western viewers. They're much more than that.
Son of God
They're the son of God, in all his splendor and glory. Yes indeed, the screenwriters were well aware of the film's Christian audience, so they prepared something especially for them.
Just before they go out to blow you and me up, the two cool killers sit down to eat a final meal, together with eleven men, in the exact arrangement and with the exact number of participants in Leonardo's famous painting of the Last Supper.
In order to prevent any of the non-Jews from interpreting the scene inappropriately and to maintain its visual context, there are no cuts during the scene.
There isn't a Christian on the planet who isn't familiar with that painting, or who doesn't know who's sitting around that table. The Christian whose mind will have no trouble conjuring up the association of Jesus just prior to his crucifixion.
So we've got a modern day Jesus and an innocent victim who will die – because of whom? An interesting question.
And Abu-Assad marches towards his Oscar, and we'll receive the next martyr. Let's just hope he's as hot as Nashef.
A few weeks ago a anti-NK magazine wrote about a "netizen NK parody" web site.
http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk02300&num=535
What they were showing was/is in fact just simple and dull bull shit(harrhar... We ecpected more?? Not really!!).
Actually the best parodies, or better caricatures, are coming definetely from the DPRK itself...
"All the peoples of the world praising Kim Il Sung's Juch’e"
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