South Korean legislators lose their marbles

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2004-03-12 04:27pm

The president has been impeached, causing an uproar

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-03-12 04:28pm

How is what he did a crime in any sense of the word?

j1j2j3 · Post by **j1j2j3** » 2004-03-12 05:02pm

Our president has been impeached and everybody is out drinking because it's friday night.

His 'crime' is supporting a minority party when he was supposed to stay neutral.

I'm betting the Constitutional court throws this impeachment out.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-03-12 05:35pm

So are there actual laws on the books governing that sort of thing?

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-03-12 06:10pm

I can understand the mandated neutrality. Presidents exist a executor of the parliaments/senates will, and allowing political affiliation like that promotes twisting the legislations to the presidents goals as much as possible.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-03-12 06:20pm

Wow, that is messed up. President gets impeached, supporters go crazy, and every member of a party resigns.

And here we all thought the United States was crazy.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-03-12 06:28pm

Atleast they'er passionate about their politics. Remember, SK is the country where, supposedly, shitloads of NORMAL people know who the years video game tournament champions are. Or so I've read.

Tom_Aurum · Post by **Tom_Aurum** » 2004-03-12 06:33pm

Yes, the only country on the globe where you really can make a living playing starcraft. People there are real nice and polite however. Koreans on the net, however... that's another story, ick.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2004-03-12 07:58pm

This sort of thing happens all the time, both in the South Korea and Taiwan. I find it funny as all hell.

The Albino Raven · Post by **The Albino Raven** » 2004-03-12 08:03pm

I'd rather have my legislators brawling, resigning and doing other indecorus things than arming their friends and starting civil wars. Still amusing that a bunch of old politicians are "brawling".

The Aliens · Post by **The Aliens** » 2004-03-12 08:26pm

Saw this on the news- people smashing furniture and stuff. Great show.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2004-03-12 08:50pm

There have been fistfights and beatings in the U.S. congress in the past, but no near-riots like this.
Amusing as hell, and I hope it gets thrown out of court.

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » 2004-03-12 09:14pm

Tom_Aurum wrote:Yes, the only country on the globe where you really can make a living playing starcraft. People there are real nice and polite however. Koreans on the net, however... that's another story, ick.

I'm half Korean

While this kind of brawl hasn't ever happened in the US, presidents here have been impeached for reasons just as, or even more, stupid.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2004-03-12 09:22pm

*checks the traditions on the UK parliment*
Here we still require the leader of the government and the leader of the opposition to remain two sword lengths from each other when in the House.

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » 2004-03-12 09:36pm

Keevan_Colton wrote:*checks the traditions on the UK parliment*
Here we still require the leader of the government and the leader of the opposition to remain two sword lengths from each other when in the House.

And in California it's still illegal to walk on your hands because you'll scare the horses.

Seriously, is that still observed?

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2004-03-12 10:58pm

What if one of them carries a pistol?

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2004-03-12 11:42pm

Damned if I know. And the distance thing is still observed, if you ever see a shot of the House of Commons, you'll see two lines marked down on the carpet infront of the front benches, they are measured to a gap of two sword lengths.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2004-03-12 11:59pm

It would be funny if they had that in the US. *Senator starts filibuster, senators gets the shit kicked out of him*

We did have fights in the Duma in Russia, though.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

EmperorChrostas the Cruel · Post by **EmperorChrostas the Cruel** » 2004-03-13 01:27am

A legislator carrying a pistol into legslature in Korea is almost unthinkable. Korea is still quite conservative Christian, with a zero tolerance position from law enforcement.
Or as Toc Peo said,"OH, guns very bad no good. LOOOONG time monkeyhouse go!" You just guess where the "monkey house" is, and why they call it such.
Korea has few guns, and few willing to use them in crimes, as the penalties are severe, and enforcement is ruthless.
For a pargon of virtue, (legislators, in their own minds), having a gun, much less using it in a crime, is unthinkable. That and without the same level of civil rights, enforcement is much more effective combined with the anti gun attitude.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2004-03-13 01:33am

kojikun wrote:Presidents exist a executor of the parliaments/senates will, and allowing political affiliation like that promotes twisting the legislations to the presidents goals as much as possible.

Don't you mean Premiers/Prime Ministers?

If you do mean Presidents in the seperated branch-government system used by the U.S., you clearly need to sue your local School Board, because they failed to teach you the basics of the Presidential system.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2004-03-13 02:15am

I'm all for this. It's honest, it's entertaining, and the more time politicians spend punching each other the less time they can sit around coming up with clever new ways to mortgage the future to get re-elected.

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2004-03-13 02:19pm

Anyone have a link to a video of that?

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-03-13 02:45pm

RedImperator wrote:I'm all for this. It's honest, it's entertaining, and the more time politicians spend punching each other the less time they can sit around coming up with clever new ways to mortgage the future to get re-elected.

Actually they didn't. Congress is legislative, they make laws; the President is executive, he enforces laws. That doesn't mean the President doesn't have enough room to work within. In a Parliamentary system, the executive is integrated into the Legislative.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-03-13 02:46pm

uh wtf? I fucking quoted

IP..

grr IGNORE THAT LAST POST

Don't you mean Premiers/Prime Ministers?

If you do mean Presidents in the seperated branch-government system used by the U.S., you clearly need to sue your local School Board, because they failed to teach you the basics of the Presidential system.

Actually they didn't. Congress is legislative, they make laws; the President is executive, he enforces laws. That doesn't mean the President doesn't have enough room to work within. In a Parliamentary system, the executive is integrated into the Legislative.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2004-03-13 02:57pm

Ah, so that's what you meant.