Protesters aren’t liable for damages (South Korea)

JoongAng Daily ^ | 11/01/2013 | Sarah Kim

[TexGrill]

Leaders of the massive candle-carrying protests against U.S. beef imports in 2008 do not have to compensate the government for the damage incurred during the demonstrations, a Seoul court ruled yesterday.

The government in July 2005 requested some 517 million won ($487,726) in compensation for medical fees for injured police, lost police equipment and damage to buses and cars from civic groups and their leaders after they organized candlelight vigils against U.S. beef imports between May and June 2008.

The protesters believed U.S. beef posed a risk of infecting people with mad cow disease.

The Seoul Central District Court ruled yesterday that 14 leaders of the demonstrations and three civic groups, including the People’s Conference Against Mad Cow Disease and the Korea Alliance for Progressive Movement, were not liable for the damages.

“The relationship between the defendants who planned and led the demonstrations and the participants of the demonstrations [who vandalized and injured police] could not be confirmed,” said the court in its decision. It said organizers did not have any responsibility to prevent damage.

The court said that even if the civic groups led illegal demonstrations, “they were not responsible for all of the illegal actions of the participants.”

[TexGrill]

I've walked in on a few of these protests when I lived in Seoul. One time a bus driver set his bus in flames, because I, the so-called evil American, was a passenger. You learn to move real quick when something like that occurs. But if I ever walk in on an anti-American protest again, I plan to chant, "Praise Be Obama." Then South Koreans would assume I'm a rabid anti-American too.

[bigheadfred]

weez been infested with mad cow needin a boy named sue

[TexGrill]

Well, that explains why Bathouse Barry turned gay.

[bigheadfred]

he is cocksure