The Boston Herald.com on 23 Aug printed an article about the Denver protestors and I started to snicker as I read it. The article made it sound like the protestors headed to Denver were trying to relive the 1960s protest years over again. Peace, baby. But what was obvious was that the American protestors are rank amateurs when compared to the Korean hard-core progressives. They need to come over to Korea to learn how to do it right.

Denver authorities are bracing for chaos as up to 50,000 protesters head for the Democratic National Convention next week and police scour the Mile High City for weapons and contraband stashes they fear could be used by mayhem-minded street warriors.

Heck, in Korea they have mass rallies with 100,000 or more by duping the weak-minded Koreans into believing the mad cow collagen in their lipstick will make them blithering idiots. But even if only 1,000 show up, you can tell the Hankyoreh that 10,000 showed up and they will print it. Numbers are only for show anyway. In Korea, don’t worry about how many show up — the progressive press will inflate the numbers for you anyway.

The article used the term — “mayhem-minded street warriors” to describe the American protestors. What a bunch of wusses!!! They don’t even have a clue as to what a “street warrior” is. The Hanchongryeon are professional battle-hardened activists who could teach them a few lessons. The American protestors are nothing more than noisy little kids out to make a nuisance of themselves.

Protesters, meanwhile, are brazenly posting calls to action on activist Web sites, some of which openly call for disrupting the convention, blocking streets and harassing delegates.

Heck, these American activists are nothing but rookies at this internet business. In Korea, teenagers went out and set up a forum which mobilized 10,000 fellow teeny-boppers using the internet. Through the combination of internet and text messaging, they were able to spread so much misinformation that no one could straighten it out. When the adults took over, they targeted advertisers of the Chosun, Joongang and Donga using the internet to post their telephone numbers. When working in concert with major broadcasters of MBC and KBS, the havoc they raised was phenomenal. If the Americans want to learn how to do it right, they should take some lessons from the Koreans.

The only problem is that the Koreans went a little overboard and now the ROK equivalent of the FCC — the KCC — is out for their heads…and the servers for their forums. But in the US, the Freedom of Speech clause always works to tie things up in litigation for years.

“There will be no business as usual in Denver during the DNC!” declares a posting on the site DNCDisruption08.org. “While they’re giving windbag speeches and doing really bad karaoke and charging a thousand dollars a plate to fill their election coffers, anarchists, agitators and other assorted clowns will be on hand to disrupt the flow of capital and corporate cronyism that funds this sham democracy.”

Well, in Korea it was “no business as usual” during the anti-US beef protests and now the store owners are suing the organizers of the anti-US beef rally. Perhaps the American business owners need to take some clues on how the Koreans do it right.

Glenn Spagnulo of Recreate 68, an activist group named for the notoriously bloody 1968 DNC in Chicago, was in Boston for the 2004 convention but said he expects far more virulent demostrations in Denver targeting the war, human rights atrocities and corporate greed. “It’s a different feeling than Boston, that’s for sure,” Spagnulo said. “I think you’re going to see one of the larger protests at a Democratic Convention.” … While the Hub was light on big-name radicals, Denver activists will be fired up by the likes of Fred Hampton Jr., whose Black Panther father, Fred, was gunned down by Chicago police in 1969, former Black Panther Kathleen Cleaver, Vietnam vet and “Born on the Fourth of July” author Ron Kovic, and anti-abortion activist Randall Terry.

The Americans are like rookies on knowing how to draw big name activists. In Korea, they are headed by Kang Ki-gap with his cast of UDP/DLP politician buddies. Then we have the Catholics priests who led the bloody Daechuri protests, the Buddhist monks of the Jogye order famous for the Saemangeum protests, and the various Protestant ministers who are well-known for the bloody WTO and anti-war protests. In Korea with their coalitions, photo-op activists are always present. Green Korea sends its people to climb the signs at McDonalds and the latest V-for-Vengeance skits and “pep squad” dancers are just terrific sidewalk entertainment.

There will also be free concerts by politically charged rap groups Public Enemy and Dead Prez and rap-metal band Rage Against the Machine, which was onstage when riots broke out at the 2000 DNC in Los Angeles.

Pshaw…in Korea, you can command great entertainment packages with KBS actors as MCs and talent from movie, stage and television along with name groups from rock to folk ballads. The Koreans with the help of the professionals at MBC and KBS really know how to organize a massive block party. The Americans simply don’t have a clue.

Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson said the city expects demonstrators to “protest in a law-abiding manner.” “But,” he said, “history says at conventions and things like this you do have people who are disruptive. We hope it doesn’t happen, but you have to be prepared.” Wary that anarchists may be arming themselves, Denver police warned officers to “be on the lookout for stockpiles and caches of supplies that could be used by violent demonstrators,” including: Metal or plastic shields with sharpened edges and protruding screws that could be used “as slashing weapons”;
Cases of nails that could injure police horses or flatten tires; Plastic piping for bombs; and Large numbers of bicycles used for “bike blocks” to clog streets.”

Well, in Korea they do it differently. In the past pipes were sharpened into hooks to slash the throats of policemen (used in Puan); shattered bamboo poles (used in Daechuri to make sashimi of the police); acid in bottles; and bricks (in the latest they brought them in since the sidewalks are hard to tear up). They haven’t used pipe bombs simply because Korean protestors may be crazy, but they are not suicidal like those damn fool Americans.

As to “bike blocks”, the Koreans don’t use bicycles. They simply take over the streets and block traffic with their “peaceful” — though illegal — marches. Another method is to play cat-and-mouse in the traffic circles to tie up traffic in four directions. Yet another method used before was when the farmers during the WTO protests took their tractors to the freeways and slowed traffic to a crawl.

Man, these Americans are real wusses. In Korea, they know how to scale bus barricades using sandbag stairs. They know how to liven up the protests with police bus pulls as you try to tug the buses out of line. They know how to isolate policemen and then proceed to beat the living crap out of them. And to show how these Americans are real cub scouts when it comes to protests, the last anti-US beef protests damaged hundreds of police buses and cars nationwide by smashing the windshields and windows, ripping off the grills and flattening the tires. These Americans really don’t know anything about protests.

The Koreans are tough. They can take a blast of fire extinguisher in the face, rip the extinguisher out of the police hands and begin to beat the police with it. Koreans know how to rip shields out of the hands of the police and then proceed to smash the police lines with them. And if the police are not any fun, they will beat up anyone on the street who even looks like they are conservatives — or even from the conservative press. The favorites are old people who shoot off their mouths to the crowd — then its Smack-down time at the WWE.

Denver police have set up a detention camp for law-breakers and created a “protest zone” near the Pepsi Center where the DNC will be staged, much like the controversial pen erected outside the TD Banknorth Garden in 2004. The Denver zone has been sarcastically dubbed “The Freedom Cage” by activists.

The KNP detention centers are treated by the protestors as a joke. Calling the arrest a “caged hen tour” referring to the police buses protected with steel grills, they pleaded with other protestors to voluntarily join them on the “tour.” At that time, posts were written on some Web sites teaching the protestors how they, too, could enjoy the tour. Being arrested to Korean protestors is like a badge of honor — and teeny boppers are released immediately. Only the protestors who really made the KNP mad — like smashing a brick into a policeman’s face — get to stay in jail overnight.

“They’re starting to get ready to rock,” Spagnulo said of the police. “And we’ll be out there in the streets with them.” And just as in Boston, activists filed a lawsuit over the protest zone, claiming it violated free speech rights. A Colorado federal judge disagreed and approved the city’s security plan.

“The city said from the beginning that they wanted to strike a balance between First Amendment rights and security,” said Mark Cohen of Recreate 68. “But with the plan they’ve put in place, the balance is tipped way toward security. Clearly, they’d be happy if we went away. They don’t want us spoiling their party.”

In Korea, they know how to do it right. You apply for a one-day permit for Seoul Plaza, set up your tents and have a hunger strike. Then have your supporters set up tents and make a campground of the place — and simply occupy the place. Then if the police react, claim police brutality instantly or better yet call in Amnesty International to file a report of their police brutality. Then get a bunch of whacko lawyers together and file all kinds of nuisance petitions with the Constitutional Court claiming everything under the sun is unconstitutional.

So in a nutshell, the Americans are real girl scouts when it comes to protests. They need to come to Korea to learn how to do it right. They need to learn that the “law and order” crud only applies to the other side.

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