Get Back On Your Meds!!
Hello again readers. I hope everyone is happy and healthy.
I usually do not post this soon after a previous post, but I couldn't pass this one up.
Today I read what is possibly the most bizarre (and ridiculous) news story I have seen in a very long time. According to a Reuters story entitled "North Korea Says Has 'Shocking Evidence' Of US Plot", the North Korean government is accusing the US of printing counterfeit US currency and framing North Korea. It goes on to say that the North Koreans have accused the CIA of orchestrating this "plot" in order to convince the rest of the world that North Korea is a criminal state. The story also says that, according to N. Korea, the CIA is using various US military bases to carry out this plot. The North Koreans are also accusing Japan of conspiring with the US to produce cartoons attacking North Korean leaders.
What a bunch of morons. Apparently the North Korean leaders must have skipped their economics and government classes a bit too often. That or they are off their psych meds again.
Ok, just so that the North Koreans are clear on this, the government is allowed to print copies of their own currency. Unfortunately for us non-wealthy, the government is the ONLY entity allowed to print copies of its currency. If the government didn't print copies of its currency, there wouldn't be a whole lot of money in circulation, not to mention that a lot of people now employed by the Bureau of Printing and Engraving would be out of work.
As for the CIA, they have come up with quite a few odd schemes in their time, but I don't think this is one of them. On top of that, the military has better things to do than to print money for a CIA plot against the North Koreans. Consider for a minute that this plot could be true. The question becomes "By printing counterfeit US currency and releasing it into circulation, whose economy will this destabilize, the US or North Korea's?" I highly doubt that even someone as unaware as Bush would have approved this scheme.
On the cartoon issue, listen up N. Korea, these are called "political cartoons". Political cartoons are often used to satirize the behavior of government officials. Generally, they make fun of the person's behavior while making a point. Now given that Japan has a free press and freedom of expression, cartoonists there can draw cartoons of anyone they want to. It just so happens that this time they may have drawn cartoons of the North Korean leaders. Wah, cry me a river. What's the matter guys, did they hurt little Kim Jong-Il's feelings? What, did they draw him as the impotent psychotic he is? Deal with it. Everyday cartoonists skewer politicians with satirical cartoons. Unlike your state controlled press, the free, market driven press is allowed to do that. Everyday, the politicians satirized see those cartoons. They may not like them, but there isn't much they can do about them. When you guys finally overthrow the little psycho you call a leader and emerge from the Dark Ages, you may finally figure out what democracy and freedom is all about. Until then, get back on your meds and shut up!
I am Chuck and I'll bet this rant won't be read in the DPRK! (You do know that DPRK is short for "Demented Paranoids Raving in Korea", right?)
I usually do not post this soon after a previous post, but I couldn't pass this one up.
Today I read what is possibly the most bizarre (and ridiculous) news story I have seen in a very long time. According to a Reuters story entitled "North Korea Says Has 'Shocking Evidence' Of US Plot", the North Korean government is accusing the US of printing counterfeit US currency and framing North Korea. It goes on to say that the North Koreans have accused the CIA of orchestrating this "plot" in order to convince the rest of the world that North Korea is a criminal state. The story also says that, according to N. Korea, the CIA is using various US military bases to carry out this plot. The North Koreans are also accusing Japan of conspiring with the US to produce cartoons attacking North Korean leaders.
What a bunch of morons. Apparently the North Korean leaders must have skipped their economics and government classes a bit too often. That or they are off their psych meds again.
Ok, just so that the North Koreans are clear on this, the government is allowed to print copies of their own currency. Unfortunately for us non-wealthy, the government is the ONLY entity allowed to print copies of its currency. If the government didn't print copies of its currency, there wouldn't be a whole lot of money in circulation, not to mention that a lot of people now employed by the Bureau of Printing and Engraving would be out of work.
As for the CIA, they have come up with quite a few odd schemes in their time, but I don't think this is one of them. On top of that, the military has better things to do than to print money for a CIA plot against the North Koreans. Consider for a minute that this plot could be true. The question becomes "By printing counterfeit US currency and releasing it into circulation, whose economy will this destabilize, the US or North Korea's?" I highly doubt that even someone as unaware as Bush would have approved this scheme.
On the cartoon issue, listen up N. Korea, these are called "political cartoons". Political cartoons are often used to satirize the behavior of government officials. Generally, they make fun of the person's behavior while making a point. Now given that Japan has a free press and freedom of expression, cartoonists there can draw cartoons of anyone they want to. It just so happens that this time they may have drawn cartoons of the North Korean leaders. Wah, cry me a river. What's the matter guys, did they hurt little Kim Jong-Il's feelings? What, did they draw him as the impotent psychotic he is? Deal with it. Everyday cartoonists skewer politicians with satirical cartoons. Unlike your state controlled press, the free, market driven press is allowed to do that. Everyday, the politicians satirized see those cartoons. They may not like them, but there isn't much they can do about them. When you guys finally overthrow the little psycho you call a leader and emerge from the Dark Ages, you may finally figure out what democracy and freedom is all about. Until then, get back on your meds and shut up!
I am Chuck and I'll bet this rant won't be read in the DPRK! (You do know that DPRK is short for "Demented Paranoids Raving in Korea", right?)
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