Posted on 06/08/2009 7:25:39 PM PDT by jimbo123
North Korea’s bankrupt justice system has delivered a cruel verdict — 12 years of hard labor — to the American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling. After an imprisonment of nearly three months in one of the world’s most inhumane gulags, they have already paid a huge and unfair price for doing their job. They should be released immediately.
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Now tell me again how much you all think Communism is "the answer".
They’re idiots for getting anywhere within 50 mile of the NK border. My sympathy quotient for stupid journalists is full.
The Algore should immediately rush to North Korea to see if he can get his employees returned to him.
Yawn. Everyone knows the North Korean government oppresses people. Why were these people screwing around near North Korea anyway? To tell us what we already know?
Indeed. I suggest he sneak in from the north.
Send the NYT editorial board over to get them.
Gore should bail them out with all the money he has made on the global warming hoax.
Algore could use a few months in the Re-education through
Labor” camp. Maybe he could trade himself for them.
So now the NYT considers itself the final arbiter of justice in other Countries, not just ours? I suppose "We were just doing our job!" is a viable defense now?
If they broke the laws of the Country they were in, they get punished per that Country's laws, period. I would expect that in NK, Canada, the USA ... anyplace. You respect their laws just as you expect visitors to respect and obey our laws. If you don't like their laws, don't go there!
{diety} knows I have no love for NK, and just about zero respect for their so-called "leaders." I'd love any excuse to take them down a notch or two, but this isn't it. Or at least it doesn't appear to be a good reason. I'd like to know exactly what the two reporters were doing that earned them an arrest. I have a sneaking suspicion it involved a little arrogance and stupidity on the part of the reporters. Sadly, training in the US would lead them to believe they could do or say any fool thing and get away with it. That just isn't the case in most of the world. They were apparently putting together a story about people fleeing the paradise that is NK. :-/ And they are surprised the powers-that-be took issue with their story? Well duh!
Hey you socialist lurkers out there, this is the kind of thing that happens when the government has too much power. It may be all fun and games while someone you like is in control, but picture your worst enemy at the helm... It could be obama, Bush, Pelosi, or Palin. A powerful government in the hands of your ideological foes is no-longer a beautiful workers paradise or capitalistic nirvana, but rather a brutally repressive regime. This is why anyone with an iota of common sense is a conservative that believes in limited government. Anything else is suicidally stupid. We can have all those feel-good, help each other, we're all in this together ideals - but we cannot empower the government to impose them on us.
Note to self: don’t travel to dangerous countries while a pantywaist is in charge. I seem to vaguely remember something like this happening at the end of carter
HOPE AND CHANGE!!!
Hmmm traveling to North Korea as journalists. Sounds like a pretty retarded idea. I hope they do not expect the US government to subsidize their stupidity with bribes to Kim Jung Il in exchange for their release.
Pair of idiots working for an idiot arrested by an idiot.
It’s hard to believe there wasn’t someone to tell them of the dangers and talk them out of it. They are young and need guidance. Or did someone talk them into it? No matter who/what they are - my heart goes out to them.
And the Chamberlin-like appeasing “I understand if they want nukes because we have nukes” obamanation has exactly what to bargain with? Oh, that’s right, “hope and change,” in other words zero. Hence my name for him, except not just explained by his vacuousness on the international front.
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