tbf, part of being democratic means your people get to decide for themselves what they will and won’t allow, they have that overriding freedom. We, for instance, could amend our constitution to remove our 1st amendment, if we so wished. It’s a power we have.
That does not make them militaristic, aggressive, hyper-patriotic states though, which is something different.
No. Rights cannot be voted away, they are too important. South Korea is infringing on his right to free speech.
If the US removed the 1st Amendment, Americans would still have the right to free speech, the government would, however, no longer be honoring the rights of its people.
I hear this often, but it’s fundamentally ideological. If the founders wished them to be more permanent, they would have made them so.
Instead, different people can do things in different ways. And reality, not ideology, can show us what works and what doesn’t. We do not need to force other people to agree with us, we can let them have freedom too. Live and let live.
The article says the poem is about yearning for a united Korea where Koreans don’t have to pay for education and healthcare and aren’t committing suicide over debts.
Hardly seems worth sending a 68 year old man to jail for over a year.
Personally I don’t agree with the charge but I can understand South Korea for not allowing glorification of the north. Anyone that thinks North Koreans have access to universal healthcare and quality eduction are lying to themselves.
Oh, the irony. Even the democratic South Korea will act fascist and won’t allow freedom of speech.
South Korea was the more brutal dictatorship of the two up until the ~90s.
Damn. NGL I’m a bit ignorant.
If you feel like crying, watch https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_of_May . Alternatively just read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangju_Uprising
tbf, part of being democratic means your people get to decide for themselves what they will and won’t allow, they have that overriding freedom. We, for instance, could amend our constitution to remove our 1st amendment, if we so wished. It’s a power we have.
That does not make them militaristic, aggressive, hyper-patriotic states though, which is something different.
True, democracy =/= freedom, though they usually (used to) go hand in hand
No. Rights cannot be voted away, they are too important. South Korea is infringing on his right to free speech.
If the US removed the 1st Amendment, Americans would still have the right to free speech, the government would, however, no longer be honoring the rights of its people.
I hear this often, but it’s fundamentally ideological. If the founders wished them to be more permanent, they would have made them so.
Instead, different people can do things in different ways. And reality, not ideology, can show us what works and what doesn’t. We do not need to force other people to agree with us, we can let them have freedom too. Live and let live.
No if they take away the restriction of the government to suppress free speech they will in fact be able to suppress free speech.
Easy to say when you’re not in a nation sharing a huge border with an actual fascist state that you’re still at war with
The article says the poem is about yearning for a united Korea where Koreans don’t have to pay for education and healthcare and aren’t committing suicide over debts.
Hardly seems worth sending a 68 year old man to jail for over a year.
You omitted the key point here, the poem advocates for all of Korea to be united under the North Korean regime.
Ah, of course that changes everything. Throw the old men in jail
Jail is a bit extreme. True.
Personally I don’t agree with the charge but I can understand South Korea for not allowing glorification of the north. Anyone that thinks North Koreans have access to universal healthcare and quality eduction are lying to themselves.
I wouldn’t go as far as defending the poem, but going to jail over it is just stupid