Anniversary Riots in Seoul

Last year at this time there were a series of mass movements in downtown Seoul as over a million morons believed media lies about mad cow disease hiding in American beef, and how the current government wanted to poison all good Korean people with it.

I'm not going to write about that. There's been so much blogging about it, if you really want to find out, google it. I was here for it, and it was so mind numbingly stupid I still feel head pain from it. It hurt my brain to see so many people herding themselves neck deep in stupidity. Irrational, thoughtless, ridiculous, irresponsible, moronic. Millions of people ready to take to the streets without checking a single fact, believing everything they see on the idiot box.

1984 gone horribly, horribly wrong for the government. If anything, it proves that for 1984 to actually happen, you need really, really competent people running all the facets behind the scenes. They just don't have that here.

I am going to link you to video of this year's anniversary protest of the anti-beef protests.

needless to say, last year's protests killed the last chance for the KorUS-FTA to pass.

Just so you know, while literally hundreds of Korean products, from vehicles and parts and plastic bits and lcd monitors and so on, are sold in Canada, the only Canadian product I've ever seen here is some of the worst, cheapest maple syrup out of Quebec I've ever tasted. Canadian beef is still banned, as it has been since 2002 (?) when a case of mad cow was detected. Blackberry phones are forbidden here, because of protectionist economics.

Right now the Canadian Government is trying to broker a free trade deal here.

Not a month goes by that Canadians living here aren't demonized as drug crazed, lazy, AIDS carrying child molesters who are here to despoil the women and steal money from good Korean people, as well as spread AIDs, molest children, do / deal drugs, AND be lazy at the same time, a great burden upon the good natured, peace loving, jolly Korean people.

Right now the Canadian Government is trying to broker a free trade deal here.

Canadian citizens came here fifty years ago to fight and die for the freedom of these people. That's already been forgotten. As the elder generation passes on, they leave behind children and grand children who believe that the Americans at best came here to prop up dictators, and at worst invaded their country.

Right now the Canadian Government is trying to broker a free trade deal here.

Why? There's better quality and better deals out there.