North Korea executes eighty for "watching foreign films"

[Samson Corwell]

http://www.smh.com.au/world/north-korea-executes-80-people-for-watching-foreign-films-20131112-2xee3.html

From the article:

Eighty people have been executed by firing squad in North Korea for watching foreign films, according to a newspaper report.

South Korea's JoongAng Ilbo newspaper reported that the co-ordinated public executions took place in seven separate cities earlier this month. In one case, the local authorities rounded up 10,000 people, including children, and forced them to watch, it reported.

Those put to death were found guilty by the state of minor misdemeanours, including watching videos of South Korean television programs or possessing a Bible.

Jesus Christ on a fucking bicycle, were the Soviets ever as bad as these guys? Before this they had executed a man for drinking on the job during Kim Jong-il funeral with a howitzer.

[Selene]

http://www.smh.com.au/world/north-korea-executes-80-people-for-watching-foreign-films-20131112-2xee3.html

From the article:

Eighty people have been executed by firing squad in North Korea for watching foreign films, according to a newspaper report.

South Korea's JoongAng Ilbo newspaper reported that the co-ordinated public executions took place in seven separate cities earlier this month. In one case, the local authorities rounded up 10,000 people, including children, and forced them to watch, it reported.

Those put to death were found guilty by the state of minor misdemeanours, including watching videos of South Korean television programs or possessing a Bible.

Jesus Christ on a fucking bicycle, were the Soviets ever as bad as these guys? Before this they had executed a man for drinking on the job during Kim Jong-il funeral with a howitzer.

Yes, much worse.

However, all they have to do is look South West for the all time champion of internal slaughter of it's citizens.

[Samson Corwell]

http://www.smh.com.au/world/north-korea-executes-80-people-for-watching-foreign-films-20131112-2xee3.html

From the article:

Eighty people have been executed by firing squad in North Korea for watching foreign films, according to a newspaper report.

South Korea's JoongAng Ilbo newspaper reported that the co-ordinated public executions took place in seven separate cities earlier this month. In one case, the local authorities rounded up 10,000 people, including children, and forced them to watch, it reported.

Those put to death were found guilty by the state of minor misdemeanours, including watching videos of South Korean television programs or possessing a Bible.

Jesus Christ on a fucking bicycle, were the Soviets ever as bad as these guys? Before this they had executed a man for drinking on the job during Kim Jong-il funeral with a howitzer.

Yes, much worse.

However, all they have to do is look South West for the all time champion of internal slaughter of it's citizens.

Is that Cambodia or China?

[Selene]

http://www.smh.com.au/world/north-korea-executes-80-people-for-watching-foreign-films-20131112-2xee3.html

From the article:

Eighty people have been executed by firing squad in North Korea for watching foreign films, according to a newspaper report.

South Korea's JoongAng Ilbo newspaper reported that the co-ordinated public executions took place in seven separate cities earlier this month. In one case, the local authorities rounded up 10,000 people, including children, and forced them to watch, it reported.

Those put to death were found guilty by the state of minor misdemeanours, including watching videos of South Korean television programs or possessing a Bible.

Jesus Christ on a fucking bicycle, were the Soviets ever as bad as these guys? Before this they had executed a man for drinking on the job during Kim Jong-il funeral with a howitzer.

Yes, much worse.

However, all they have to do is look South West for the all time champion of internal slaughter of it's citizens.

Is that Cambodia or China?

China, Mao alone made Pol Pot and Hitler together look like amateurs.

[Samson Corwell]

http://www.smh.com.au/world/north-korea-executes-80-people-for-watching-foreign-films-20131112-2xee3.html

From the article:

Eighty people have been executed by firing squad in North Korea for watching foreign films, according to a newspaper report.

South Korea's JoongAng Ilbo newspaper reported that the co-ordinated public executions took place in seven separate cities earlier this month. In one case, the local authorities rounded up 10,000 people, including children, and forced them to watch, it reported.

Those put to death were found guilty by the state of minor misdemeanours, including watching videos of South Korean television programs or possessing a Bible.

Jesus Christ on a fucking bicycle, were the Soviets ever as bad as these guys? Before this they had executed a man for drinking on the job during Kim Jong-il funeral with a howitzer.

Yes, much worse.

However, all they have to do is look South West for the all time champion of internal slaughter of it's citizens.

Is that Cambodia or China?

China, Mao alone made Pol Pot and Hitler together look like amateurs.

I'm tempted to consider Pol Pot, Hitler, and North Korea to be the worst.

ETA: NorKor is probably the closest a country has ever come to replicating 1984.

[GALTGULCH8]

I believe there is a review of Ta, Ta, Tan, Tan by Valentin Chu in The Objectivist Newsletter. Chu worked as a Time correspondent in Hong Kong and interviewed men who had escaped from every province in China after the Bamboo Curtain came down. Historians discount such eye witness accounts as not confirmed and therefore of questionable authenticity. In it there were similar accounts of executions in stadiums attended by those thousands who were mandated to be there to witness.

Another enlightening book entitled I Chose Freedom by Victor Kravchenko told the story of a man who rose in the Communist Party in the Soviet Union as an engineer who witnessed the confiscation of the Kulak farmers property in the thirties. He ultimately worked in the Kremlin but was sent on a diplomatic trip to America where he defected and wrote his story.

One image I still have from his book is of a farmer who was obliged to give the milk from what had been his cow to the factory up the road where it was churned into butter for export to the West to show how successful communism was that such luxuries could be exported. Meanwhile his children were left starving.

Obama would brag about how those formerly uninsurable under the marketplace because of pre existing conditions who are covered under Obamacare.

Actually I expect him to advocate for a single payer system to replace the failed Obamacare. He will mandate that everyone be involved and abolish all private health insurers. That would simplify his formerly complex program. Essentially Medicare for all. Doctors will need to get permission to retire or leave the country for good.

Tyranny is on the way. After all wasn't the mandate found Constitutional so why not go all the way?

gg

[zantonavitch]

This is pretty much the most minimal and fraudulent "crime" ever. Even watching the current movie The Interview with Seth Rogan and James Franco would be essentially a very light and trivial phenomenon. Why hasn't the whole world invaded North Korea and executed all of their absurdist ultra-monster leaders?

[Jules Troy]

Because big bad China has their back. If you are able to destroy China as well then N.Korea would be gone in a heartbeat. Until that time he will do whatever the sick little fuck wants and he KNOWS it.

[Robert Campbell]

The Kim Dynasty hasn't even shown gratitude for all the Chinese troops who died saving Kim the First's bacon.

Yet the Chinese regime continues to sponsor them.

I doubt anything will change until the ruling circles in Beijing give up on them.

Robert Campbell

[Francisco Ferrer]

Why hasn't the whole world invaded North Korea and executed all of their absurdist ultra-monster leaders?

Because the world is too altruistic. It takes a rationally selfish nation to invade on a regular basis.

Congo 1964

Laos 1964-73

Vietnam 1961-73

Cambodia 1969-70

Guatemala 1967-69

Grenada 1983

Lebanon 1983, 1984

Libya 1986

El Salvador 1980s

Nicaragua 1980s

Iran 1987

Panama 1989

Iraq 1991 (Persian Gulf War)

Kuwait 1991

Somalia 1993

Bosnia 1994, 1995

Sudan 1998

Afghanistan 1998

Yugoslavia 1999

Yemen 2002

Iraq 1991-2003

Iraq 2003-05

Afghanistan 2001-05

[Brant Gaede]

Gee, Frank. I was in Cambodia in Nov. 1966. Airboats, helicopters and hovercraft.

You missed that one.

--Brant

[Selene]

Gee, Frank. I was in Cambodia in Nov. 1966. Airboats, helicopters and hovercraft.

You missed that one.

--Brant

I think that was in the Vietnam section.

Hell, from what you have explained, it was a hidden op anyway.

A...

[Brant Gaede]

Gee, Frank. I was in Cambodia in Nov. 1966. Airboats, helicopters and hovercraft.

You missed that one.

--Brant

I think that was in the Vietnam section.

Hell, from what you have explained, it was a hidden op anyway.

A...

It was officially a mistake. The border wasn't defined. When it was discovered we were where we ought not be we broke off contact and withdrew leaving behind 56 communist KIA. Same unit that had busted our ass in Vietnam 6 days before. (2 Americans KIA and 1 WIA out of 6--the sergeant next to me was shot between the eyes. I escorted the bodies to Ton Son Nhut AFB morgue and saw them laid out on marble slabs. Theirs were the only dead bodies there that day so there was a long row of empty slabs. I wondered how many more Americans would be laid out there in the months and years to come. I had calculated in parachute paratrooper training in late March 1965 it could be worse than Korea because of the long Vietnam borders and indefinite warfare you could not stop with a DMZ. The 10,000th American had yet to be killed. As I walked back to my helicopter an army private called me "Sergeant!" asking for directions I could not give. It was the only time I was in the army anyone ever called me anything but my last name because I existed in a sea of senior non-commissioned officers whom I addressed as "Sergeant" but they not me.)

Abrams--the #2 after Westmoreland--came in the next day for a debriefing. It had to have gone straight to McNamara and the President. The King of Cambodia complained a week later, but in such an ill-informed way you knew his government had no authority or presence along the Vietnam-Cambodian border.

The next summer Sean Flynn came through our team. I asked him if he was a medic. I thought he was SF the way he was dressed. (Jennifer Jones [she tried to kill herself in November] came through also. I was told John Wayne had dropped by the spring of 1966 which was before my time. Shortly after I arrived Westmoreland landed right in front of the team house [we were surrounded by flood water] and as he approached me I snapped a salute too soon and had to hold it until he got within 6 feet and returned it. I didn't have to salute Eisenhower [heh] the year before although I spent 13 nights with him with a beautiful nurse the brass sent down from Walter Reed. When I first laid eyes on him he was in a blocked off corridor in the old wooden hospital at Ft. Gordon all alone sleeping with a heart monitor. Completely poignant considering he had been the most powerful man in the world and WWII's most important commander. He died on my birthday in 1969, the date I stopped smoking. In the very large room he was moved into there was a lot of space for all the flowers he received, including some with an elephant sent by my Senator Barry Goldwater. I walked into the general's line of sight and draped my green beret over the elephant's head and looked up at him 20 feet away with him looking at me. I glanced back at the elephant and looked back at Ike and gave him an Eisenhower grin, did a 180, took the beret and walked out of sight.)

Three years later Sean disappeared in Cambodia not too far from all this and from Moc Hoa. We were just south of "The Parrot's Beak."

--Brant

[Selene]

Brant:

You do know that you should write a book about your military experiences.

Also, one about your journey with Rand and Branden.

You are an excellent storyteller.

A...

I of course want signed first editions of those two (2) books.

[Brant Gaede]

My book-writing problem is I'm so into reductioning to basics. Makes for short copy. The one I did write--not published--over 40 years ago, Capitalist Commentary, was only a little more than 100 double-lined typed pages. That manuscript is only notable for precisely explaining the end of the Vietnam War--how and why not when--and I don't think I took more than two or three paragraphs. The only thing I got wrong was the South Vietnamese holding out so long in the Mekong Delta. A future non-fiction book would require an awful lot of research. If I could do a good novel I think it would sell because I can write snappy draw the reader in prose (plus humor) and dialogue with a lot of narrative power, but all of which would beg the questions of subject (theme) and constructing a plot. Yeah, I might do a memoir. I'd construct it on 3 x 5 cards over the next ten years or more as a continuous side project while writing other stuff. That way when I'm 85 and I can tell my brain is turning to mush, I can crank in out in six months for all the brain power, feeble as it is, will already be on the cards.

--Brant

(I'd need a good editer fore grammer and speling and typoes)

[Selene]

Fair enough.

However, why not write a short story and if it gets un-short you can dub it a novelette.

Seriously, start a short story.

As to typos and editing, there are good folks out there who could be recruited.

A...

[Brant Gaede]

I like the short story idea. Short stories died with the magazines that supported them and I stopped thinking of them. With the Internet and electronic publishing it's a good idea to revisit the genre.

--Brant

the problem is I keep throwing in sex and I get hung up in there

[Selene]

I like the short story idea. Short stories died with the magazines that supported them and I stopped thinking of them. With the Internet and electronic publishing it's a good idea to revisit the genre.

--Brant

the problem is I keep throwing in sex and I get hung up in there

Plow through it, so to speak...

[Brant Gaede]

I like the short story idea. Short stories died with the magazines that supported them and I stopped thinking of them. With the Internet and electronic publishing it's a good idea to revisit the genre.

--Brant

the problem is I keep throwing in sex and I get hung up in there

Plow through it, so to speak...

Porn?

Well, the trick to not writing it is to write it anyway, get relief then rewrite it out calling it romantic love. The ladies love that stuff. They like to think of men as romantics when they're just animals and should act like like animals. (The second draft.) So opined the nudist Kansas farmer who sent Madalyn Murray O'Hair money.

--Brant

"Have some Madeira M'Dear"

intimations of a true professional