http://www.rjkoehler.com/2003/12/13/demand-jurisdiction-for-christs-sake/ Korea... in Blog Format Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:11:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2003/12/13/demand-jurisdiction-for-christs-sake/#comment-1016 usinkorea Sun, 14 Dec 2003 03:52:57 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=366#comment-1016 I have no idea why the Korean justice system is waiting, but I found the articles this week on the matter interesting. You find near the bottom of the JAI article a quote from USFK saying it asked for jurisdiction as a matter of routine, but early in the article, the JAI made sure you already new it was a terrible arm twisting to have USFK demand to have the court case. Put this together with the Water Dumping case the Korean courts have gotten around to starting some 3 years after the event, and we are squarely in what the period of reminding Koreans how "GIs escape justice." Add to that the courts lowering the penalty on the students who broke in the bases to no time served or fine and clearing their record after 2 years of not breaking the law again.... I have no idea why the Korean justice system is waiting,
but I found the articles this week on the matter
interesting. You find near the bottom of the JAI
article a quote from USFK saying it asked for
jurisdiction as a matter of routine, but early in the
article, the JAI made sure you already new it was a
terrible arm twisting to have USFK demand to have
the court case. Put this together with the Water
Dumping case the Korean courts have gotten around to
starting some 3 years after the event, and we are squarely
in what the period of reminding Koreans how “GIs
escape justice.” Add to that the courts lowering the
penalty on the students who broke in the bases to
no time served or fine and clearing their record after
2 years of not breaking the law again….

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