Posted on 11/22/2011 1:45:41 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
South Korea Passes U.S. Free-Trade Agreement, Lawmaker Sets Off Tear Gas Canister in Protest
Published November 22, 2011
| NewsCore
SEOUL – South Korea's parliament Tuesday approved a free trade agreement with the United States, minutes after an opposition legislator set off a tear gas canister in the assembly in protest over the pact.
Television footage showed legislators coughing and wiping their eyes after the canister went off next to the speaker's rostrum, forcing the deputy speaker to flee, AFP reported.
Legislators voted 151-7 in favor of the long-delayed deal, live footage showed, after ruling party members caught the opposition off guard by calling a snap parliamentary session
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I wonder if that can earn him suspension of membership in the Parliament for the remainder of his term?
The picture of him being dragged out afterward:
A Harley Davidson that costs $20,000 here in the U.S. costs $80,000 in south Korea due to import fees.
A $50,000 Cadillac goes for $200,000.
Hard to have a fair trading field when everything imported has between a 3 and 4 hundred percent import fee.
Why have we allowed this to continue for decades?????
While we import every kind of crap from s. Korea as well as others with little or NO import fee???
Why do they do this, or fight in the parliament? They must understand that it is to no avail.
Pranks like this just give Taiwanese legislators ideas...wrong ideas.
Exactly. The South Koreans have been raping our economy for decades with these one sided trade agreements while reverse engineering our patented products, dumping them back on our shores by the container load, and selling them to the world. Laughing theirs butts the whole way as they treat commerce just like the Japanese and Chinese do. As it’s a war.
This guy is obviously of the extra racist moonbat variety and is upset that they even communicate with us white devils.
They don’t need to reverse engineer anything. South Korea is one of the worlds leading chip manufacturers.
What in the world are they complaining about?
For OTHER COUNTRIES, “free trade” is an anti-American scam of historic proportion.
See also free stuff, paid for by foolish Americans with nothing in return.
Looks like you are arguing that the FTA should’ve been enacted much earlier.
It's the Willie Green of South Korea.
NOt really,
Just that our congress and president should fight for the U.S and not let her get stepped on.
Long ago the U.S should have said to ALL trading partners that their tarriffs would be met in same.
For decades you could not bring anything in to Korea that could possibly have been built there without 300 percent duties. Thus protecting their domestic manufacturers.
Cars being the big example.
Maybe if we had men with balls like this guy in our CONgress years ago that fought these Free Traitor agreements our economy wouldn’t be currently circling the toilet into oblivion.
This guy’s no hero. He’s right there with the Occupy crowd here. Representative discourse, parliamentary procedure-gee, what’s that?
Damn they don’t mess around in SK LOL!
OH MONK you want photohshop something LOL!
“See! Look at the violence inherent in the system!!! Everyone, look at the violence inherent in the system!!!”
“Help! Help! I’m being repressed!”
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