Footage

[driftingfocus]

This is only a small fraction of the footage, but here, this should give you an idea. My night last night was 2 hours of this:

(I warn you, the video has lots of screaming and involves people being beaten with batons and is very disorienting, so it might be disturbing to some.)

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Comments

[brigid]

what was the riot for?

[driftingfocus]

It was against the presence of the USFK (US Forces Korea - the army unit in Korea), among other anti-American stuff. I stitched a temporary Canadian flag patch to my bag before I went out.

[write_naked]

Wow. What's bizarre is that for some reason, your embedded video got mixed up with the embedded viedeo from one of my coms, and the title of that footage was something to do with the Miss California controversy. I was like- woah, all of this over a stupid beauty queen? Damn!

[kittiethedragon]

Now, I'm grateful for the US Armed Forces, without them there's a good chance I might not be here now-I might not have been born. Or worse. But... I can't help but ask myself why this country bothers trying to help anyone nowadays.