Forty-four moms face a summons for their alleged violation of the law on rallies during last year's candlelit vigils against the import of American beef.
Last week, police asked the members of an online community, dubbed ``Stroller Moms Corps,'' to present themselves at Jongno Police Station in central Seoul soon, according to police and the members, Monday.
The mothers took part in the candlelit demonstrations with their babies in strollers last year. Clashes between riot police and protesters usually did not happen when the mothers were present, as both sides tried to protect the babies.
Police said that the mothers are suspected of having violated the law on rallies and obstructed traffic by illegally occupying and marching on the streets on May 29 and 31.
We heard about this last September, too. From the KT back then:
``Stroller Moms Corps,'' and booked one of them, 37-year-old Yu, without physical detention on alleged violation of the law on rallies and traffic obstruction. They will summon the other two soon.
The community members and other mothers took part in the rallies with their babies in strollers. Clashes between riot police and protesters usually did not happen when the mothers were present, as both sides tried to protect the children.
Investigators visited the home of one of the members, Yang, and showed her husband photos of her, which police took at the demonstration for evidence.
``I, mother of three children, participated in the rally as I wished to leave safe food and quality education to my kids, but I did not know that I would have to pay a huge cost. We mothers, carrying babies in strollers and holding candles, neither destroyed patrol buses, nor wielded steel pipes,'' Yang, 34-year-old housewife, said on portal site Daum.
From the original KT article:
Police said the probe is separate from that into three community organizers, who were summoned last September for leading the ``illegal'' protests. One of them was booked without physical detention for standing in front of demonstrators and confronting police's water cannon with her baby in a stroller, making police unable to forcibly disperse the demonstrators.
You'll remember that in the middle of last year's Mad Bull Shit, these mothers were . . . um, doing this:
At around 1:40 p.m. June 26, police stationed two water canon vehicles in front of Saemoonan Church, downtown Seoul. It was to dismiss the protestors overcrowding the road.
As the police prepared for a second spurt after spouting water for 10 minutes, a housewife suddenly approached the water canon vehicles pushing forth a baby buggy with her child in it.
The police requested the mother to move aside to the footpath, but she stayed right there saying, “I’ll only move aside after the water canon vehicles move away.”
Last June an internet user commented:
I’m in tears. I’m touched by the desperateness of the mother who stood in front of the water canon cars with her dear child.
Protesting American beef because it could be dangerous to their families . . . by putting their babies in front of water cannons. Fail.
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It's like the last episode of M*A*S*H when everyone was on that bus, and there was w woman with a chicken in the backseat. They were trying to avoid North Koreans and the chicken kept on making noise so the woman twisted its neck off. But instead of being a chicken, it was really a baby. The horrors of being on a bus, and avoiding North Koreans is almost exactly as terrifying as having to eat American beef.
"I’m touched by the desperateness of the mother who stood in front of the water canon cars with her dear child."
desperate? why? were they forced to go to such candlelit demonstrations?
From another mother's point of view... THAT'S PLAIN STUPID. I am absolutely appalled by such acts. If these mothers felt strongly about the issues, then they should have gone on their own, and WITHOUT these babies in strollers. The kids turned out to be the mediators!
They're not protecting their kids, they're protecting the mob. I'm all for doing what's right, but putting babies in such... i hope they just go to jail for child endangerment or something alike.
Being willing to give up your own life for a cause is possibly heroic.
Being willing to sacrifice your infant for a cause is criminal.
These creatures are not human mothers.
Taking your baby to a violent protest would be cause for social services to intervene and take a human child, at least temporarily. They used their own children as (non)human shields. Pathetic.
Isn't there something in the Geneva Conventions about human shields? Or does that only apply to war time and combatants?
Can you imagine the outcry if one of these children had actually been injured or killed?
I am all for the prosecutors arresting these pathetic excuses for parents. To use a baby as a human shield is Taliban-worthy.
Come on you guys, this is just another example of how Korean mothers love their children more than any other parent in the world.
Do you know Dokdo?
"Come on you guys, this is just another example of how Korean mothers love their children more than any other parent in the world."
Ewwww, that was one of the first things said to me upon arrival in Korea 7 years ago. My first co-teacher found out that I had a son in his first year of university back home and she said, "Oh, it's true then!" I asked her, "What's true?" She said, "That Korean mothers love their children more than American mothers." She was being dead serious. Imagine MY reaction!
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