The next time you see somebody wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt or you walk past an A.N.S.W.E.R booth at the latest Anti-Everything rally, it's worth remembering what they're advocating.
Deserter: 'Worst Mistake Anyone Ever Made'
Friday, October 21, 2005
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A U.S. Army deserter who spent decades in North Korea says his communist keepers abused him and controlled every aspect of his life, down to telling him how often to have sex.
"It was the worst mistake anyone ever made," Charles Jenkins said. "In words, I cannot express the feelings I have towards North Korea, the harassment I got, the hard life."
In an interview airing Sunday on CBS' "60 Minutes, Jenkins said he was given no painkillers when a tattoo on his forearm that read "U.S. Army" was cut off with a scalpel and scissors.
"They told me the anesthetic was for the battlefield," said Jenkins, a North Carolina native. "It was hell."
Jenkins was a 24-year-old sergeant when he crossed the border into North Korea. He stayed for 39 years, appearing in propaganda films and teaching English.
In 1980, he married a Japanese woman who had been kidnapped and taken to North Korea to train spies in Japanese language and culture. She was released in 2002 and Jenkins followed two years later, surrendering to U.S. authorities and serving a month in jail for desertion.
The couple now live in Japan.
Jenkins told "60 Minutes" that his government handlers assigned him a Korean woman with whom he was supposed to have sex twice a month, and they beat him severely when he balked.
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Somehow, I don't think that the fist-in-the-air, street-corner-proletariat wearing the Che t-shirts are advocates of the North Korean communist party, nor do I believe that the North Koreans are communists. Regardless of what you call yourselves, the name by which we call a ruling political party should be a product of its dogma and its behavior, rather than its particular franchise. By this yardstick, what would you call the ruling party in North Korea? in the United States?
I agree, the Che tee-wearin' proletariat may or may not be advocates of communism. I'd guess they haven't given it enough thought really, they're simply what Lenin refered to as "useful idiots". And as useful idiots, they unwittingly advocate a Communist murderer when they wear his image on their chest. BTW, I wonder what Mr. Guevara would think if he knew his image was bought and sold in such a blatantly capitalistic fashion?
North Korea is not communist? I guess a more apt description would be The Iron-Fisted, Totalitarian, Dissent-Crushing, Starving My People into Submission or Death "Republic" of North Korea, but that would be hard to fit on a flag. Certain people would use the same description to define the ruling party in America (sans the starving part), but I take pity on them and their Bush Derangement Syndrome.
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