some folks....just have to much time on their hands and think to much....



He stands about 15 feet high, trademark corncob pipe held across his chest, thoughtful gaze looking north, toward the enemy. Since 1957, the statue of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur has stood in Freedom Park in Inchon, South Korea, a tribute from the grateful citizens of the Republic of Korea to the liberator who saved them from the fate of their fellow Koreans stuck in the horrid “workers and peasants paradise” of their northern neighbors. It was MacArthur’s audacity and bold vision, exercised on this very field, the unlikely battleground harbor of Inchon, which was singularly responsible for turning the tide of the Korean War. Now, North Korean spies and ungrateful South Koreans wish him to be toppled.

Upwards of 4,000 demonstrators armed with iron pipes, rocks, eggs, and the requisite signage (“f---ing U.S.”; “Yankee go home”) recently gathered to protest the existence of the statue and demand its removal. The protestors were composed according to Chung Ki-hwan of the Joongang Ilbo, of the usual suspects: “Progressives” including “members of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union, members of Hanchogryon [an ultra-Left, banned student organization], and the Democratic Labor Party,” along with the usual street thugs hired for such occasions. The DLP is a splinter leftist group of politicians who favor a soft line, if not a merger with – read surrender to – Kim Jong Il’s regime, as well as immediate expulsion of American military forces from the peninsula.



Removal of the statue according to demonstrator Kim Su-nam would rectify “the vestiges of colonialism and our distorted history must begin with removing the MacArthur statue, which is a symbol of imperialism.” North Korean authorities agreed, calling the general an “unrivaled war enthusiast” and “a nuclear extremist” who wanted to “use atomic bombs to exterminate the Korean people.” Keeping the general’s image in South Korea according to Pyongyang is “a shame to the Korean people.”

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No individual can plan his own existence in their view.

So the state planners must arrogate to themselves the right to manipulate any sector of the economic system if the good of “society” or the “general welfare” is paramount.

Ipso- if the rights of the individual get in the way, the rights of the individual must be sublimated.

The Road to Serfdom
FA Hayek (interpretation)


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