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BREAKING - Two American journalists convicted and get 12 years in N. Korea labor camp!
KFI - John Batchelor show ^ | 6-7-09 | dfu

Posted on 06/07/2009 9:24:08 PM PDT by doug from upland

Headline tells the story


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 200903; 20090317; algore; algoresfault; currenttv; darwinawards; eunalee; goretv; gorons; iranhostages; journalists; lauraling; liberalreporters; libsindeepshit; libsindprk; nkrea; northkorea; thanksal
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To: fight_truth_decay

We already know what goes on in those despot countries. we don’t need idiots sneaking into those countries just to take pictures.


341 posted on 06/08/2009 3:29:56 PM PDT by SendShaqtoIraq
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To: Jack Black

I agree with you.

I am a Christian and pro-life. I don’t like values clarification being practiced by anyone—& basically some are by saying that since the reporters were likely liberal, their lives aren’t worth caring about. I am conservative, pro-life, and I care.

Wow, if one of my kids did something stupid like trespass (and we don’t know for sure that the reporters actually had crossed over the border or they were simply captured by some over-zealous guards), I would want all Americans to care. My kids are libertarian/conservataives & I would want this socialist administration to be working for their release—on many different fronts.

Frankly I think it is because we have a weak WH that this and the other saber rattling by NK has occured. If we do nothing we are reinforcing perception of weakness.

I don’t feel we as humans are allowed to establish the value of another human based on ideology.

I read that these two journalists were reporting on the sex-slave industry between China and North Korea. I commend them for that, and I don’t think that is a Liberal or Conservative issue. The sex slave industry is horrific, it is a criminal enterprize with the worst of motives being perpetrated on innocents & the reporters were exposing it. I don’t care who they work for, good for them!

I leave the value of life up to God and he did not discriminate on ideology. The death camps in North Korea are on a par with Nazi Germany—I have read reports on them. I don’t think anyone deserves to be there—esp. reporters who may have crossed the border doing a report on sex crimes.


342 posted on 06/08/2009 3:56:51 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (If you think insurance is expensive now, just wait till it is free! PJ O'Rourke.)
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To: americanophile; Travis McGee
Travis, can you explain this to americanophile?
343 posted on 06/08/2009 4:03:08 PM PDT by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: Fee
These two women reporters got to be dumb as crap to even pull a stunt like that. Maybe in the US one can trespass to get a story, but this is North Korea they are dealing with.

No kidding. If they were caught on the North Korean side, I'm sure that their justice system considers it humane treatment that they weren't shot on site and lenient treatment to get off with just a 10 year sentence.

344 posted on 06/08/2009 4:17:10 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: doug from upland

Ha, ha! Jokes on you - we have thousands more liberal journalists where those came from. :)


345 posted on 06/08/2009 4:28:34 PM PDT by Tzimisce (Socialism is the worst kind of Pollution.)
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To: doug from upland

Working for Al Gore should get you at least 12 years.

On a more serious note, “Life is tough. It’s tougher when you’re stupid.” If they crossed the North Korean border, then they are paying the price for their stupidity.


346 posted on 06/08/2009 5:54:39 PM PDT by NavVet ( If you don't defend Conservatism in the Primaries, you won't have it to defend in November)
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To: Mister Muggles

My guess is they won’t be posting items about their stay in NK on their Facebook pages.


347 posted on 06/08/2009 6:09:31 PM PDT by ponygirl ("Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.")
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To: politicalmerc

I was thinking maybe Keith Olbermann could go looking for them.


348 posted on 06/08/2009 6:43:51 PM PDT by jilliane
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To: doug from upland

As a woman I do feel sorry for them. They will be treated like dirt, probably sexually assaulted, starved. Yes they were stupid to go over there, but they really have their own liberalism to blame for making such a dumb decision. I’ll bet Al Bore doesn’t go over there to try to get them released. I don’t even see anything about this on the main page of Huffpo. They are quiet about it because the ladies were libs investigating communists. But they sure have two reports going on Sarah Palin, including how she painted her toenails. Boy, that is really important news! Huffpo is a JOKE.


349 posted on 06/08/2009 6:54:47 PM PDT by deannadurbin
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To: deannadurbin

They were reporting on trafficking of women. That was a noble effort, albeit stupid to put themselves in a position where they could be apprehended by one of the most repressive regimes on the planet.


350 posted on 06/08/2009 7:08:22 PM PDT by doug from upland (10 million views of .HILLARY! UNCENSORED - put some ice on it, witch)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
It will take a strong Republican President, probably President Sarah Palin...

President Sarah Palin.

Her name looks so much better that way.

351 posted on 06/08/2009 7:13:03 PM PDT by kara2008 (Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem)
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To: Fee

WTH were their liberal minds thinking ?


352 posted on 06/08/2009 7:38:50 PM PDT by KTM rider (.......and the sheeple feebly bleated in protest)
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To: llevrok

While hillary tries to convince other nations to recognize gays and parties at the State Dept. and invites Iranians to their embassies ......... priorities, priorities......


353 posted on 06/08/2009 8:30:25 PM PDT by Citizen Soldier (Made in USA and proud of it.)
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To: doug from upland

Where are all the people around the world who scream about GITMO?


354 posted on 06/08/2009 10:11:18 PM PDT by divine_moment_of_facts
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To: Bronzy
What is the nationality of Laura and Lisa - North Korean?

Can't find any info on that.
355 posted on 06/08/2009 10:20:34 PM PDT by divine_moment_of_facts
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To: AFPhys

You are correct. No Drama Obama couldn’t care less about these women. You can bet he’s hoping the press buries the story long enough to give NK enough goodies to let them out.

In any case, I expect NK to go public with these women’s pleas. It should be horrendous, and a reminder to the nation of what Carter-like accomodation can do to both countries sense esteem, and their respective bargaining positions in these types of negotiations.


356 posted on 06/08/2009 10:32:09 PM PDT by Wiseghy ("You want to break this army? Then break your word to it.")
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To: divine_moment_of_facts

They are Americans (Liberals).


357 posted on 06/08/2009 10:47:14 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (There is something deeply wrong with the USA, and its People, if high Obama-approval levels continue)
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To: AmericanInTokyo; Bronzy
They are Americans (Liberals).

lol.. We know they are Asian-American Liberals.. I think Bronzy wanted to know the nationality of their descendants.
358 posted on 06/09/2009 4:17:58 AM PDT by divine_moment_of_facts
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To: myself6

“Even if I had the power to press a button and save them, I would not do so. I kinda like the idea of them suffering in what amounts to the culmination of their ideology.”

I don’t care who a reporter is working for. What matters is the honesty and quality of the reporting. And anyone who says that he wouldn’t life a finger to save a fellow American just because they work for Al Gore is part of the problem, not part of the solution.


359 posted on 06/09/2009 4:39:45 AM PDT by guns_for_liberty
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To: trumandogz
More like a death sentence. Hate to seem insensitive but who in their right mind would get anywhere near that country?
360 posted on 06/09/2009 5:27:31 AM PDT by east1234 (It's the borders stupid! My new enviromentalist inspired tagline: cut, kill, dig and drill)
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