New Jersey Comfort Women Monument Defaced

By Tina | Friday, November 2, 2012 | 6 Comments

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What do you do when you don’t agree with something and can’t find a civil, socially acceptable, and legal way to express that disagreement? You illegally deface it of course. Like a sniveling coward. Because that proves your argument is so weak and so wrong (and you know it) but you still want to keep with it, so you act out like a little tantruming brat.

That’s exactly what happened to a New Jersey monument for comfort women.

It was “defiled with a stake by an unidentified perpetrator,” said the group, which calls itself Korean American Civic Empowerment. Local police began investigation, it said in a statement. The group said it found the monument defaced earlier in the day, adding a sign reading Dokdo “is Japan’s indigenous territory” was also placed there. A sticker with the same message was found attached to the entrance of the petition room of the South Korean consulate in New York.

You know, it would be refreshing to hear a legitimate, thought out, and logical argument against having such a memorial for the tortured comfort women of World War II. I may not agree with it, but maybe if you give me a good enough reason, I would consider it honestly and reasonably.

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LTE2

“It was “defiled with a stake by an unidentified perpetrator,”
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It could have been a Japanese sympathizer, a Korean hater or just a bunch of kids having their idea of fun. The use of the term Dokdo is telling.
http://twitter.com/yanagiX 楊壹業

The stake didn’t say “Dokdo” (獨島); it said “Takeshima” (竹島). The confusion comes, I suspect, because the source refuses to refer to Dokdo by any name other than Dokdo. Similarly, no Japanese sympathizer would ever refer to the islands as anything other than Takeshima. Such is the polarized nature of the dispute (same with Senkaku and Diaoyu).

Also, while I don’t know for sure, I don’t believe it was “just a bunch of kids having their idea of fun” as the stake is “well made.”
Formosa samosa

it’s also possibly false flag operations. you can’t ever be sure with these things
LTE2

I wonder if this incident was connected to the Comfort Women memorial placed right in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul. The memorial was placed were it was to be intentionally provocative.
http://www.facebook.com/michael.light.108 Michael Light

This crime shouldn’t be marginalized, and should be treated as a hate crime. Although it shouldn’t be too difficult to install security cameras either.

The longer the Japanese government stonewalls the truth, the harder it will be to repair its relationship with other Asian nations. The US is partially to blame for this by allowing the Japanese keep its silence.
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