The presidential elections were two days ago. Two torturous days of political fighting later and we've come to Thursday. Political fighting; that's right and I'm only in high school. Which, of course, only makes it worse because you've got a school of 1500+ people who can't even vote to begin with (thank goodness) who just will not cease to shut up. I went on Twitter and Facebook on Tuesday just to see the raging caps lock and viscous hastaging of emotionally unstable teenagers. And I for that I logged on to the perfect site. For at least an hour I watched a sophomore boy and a junior boy go at each others throats on Twitter, mostly it was about how the other's opinion did not matter due to some social reason. And to prove my point that some highschoolers should definitely not be in charge of logical department here I show you exhibit A:
The Katie by the way in this case was not me by the way. But this was a tweet in the middle of a political argument. Yeah... well this guy didn't win. Proof that some people just do not have class. Kansas being mainly a republican state you can imagine the amount of angry tweeter and facebookers there were on Tuesday. I personally am impartial. Whenever my dad starts one of his republican rants on meand asks me for my opinion I always reply with the same thing, "Well, I'm moving to Europe so there,"
Anyway I decided to actually do a documentary on politics this time. Kimjongilia: The flower of Kim Jong II. It's about prisoners who escaped North Korea and the daily life of people in North Korea. It begins with what I assume is a North Korean men's choir. Before this the only Korean singing I have heard was Gangam Style a very brief fad indeed but for this idiot not very brief I suppose:
He shouldn't be in charge of a logical department either.
The movie begins with Korean people talking about the crazy amount of hunger they had everyday and how some had to sink to the level of eating mice just to stay alive. Of people beaten for hours, sold as slaves, and arrested for believing in God. Thousands die of food shortages everyday due to the severe isolation of North Korea.
The first story is of a woman who escaped prison through bribing the guard with everything she owned. She was placed in prison because he best friend was Kim's lover and and she knew about it. Her entire family including her parents and four children all under the age of 10 were put in prison for 8.5 years. Her three sons died, she had to put her daughter up for adoption, she doesn't know what happened to her husband and her parents died.
Kim Jong-il is forced to be like a god for the Korean people.
The next story was of a man who was arrested at 9 because it's tradition to purge three generations after a crime is committed. So his grandfather, his father, his uncle, his sister and himself were thrown into prison.
In the prisons after role call they had to recite the rules of a sector:
1. If you had an attitude or didn't work hard you were shot to death.
2. If you steal food you will be shot.
3. If you don't obey you will be shot.
4. If you try to escape or don't report an escape you will be shot.
A common theme huh? North Koreans are starving and being tortured and we're complaining how we're ONLY 7th in the global standing. Just be fortunate we live here at all.
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