This article was originally published on Solidarity for Freedom and Justice and translated by OKN Correspondent.
The two minimum functions and essential missions for a state to exist are to protect individual citizens from crime and to prevent foreign invasions. The current administration and the Democratic Party of Korea (DP), which have torn down the national security of the Republic of Korea for the past five years, are trying to enforce legislation that neutralizes the nation’s criminal detection and punishment systems with the help of President Moon Jae-in, who has just about a month of his term left in office. Reducing the capability of national criminal investigation is an act that denies the purpose of the state’s existence.
Most people are not worried that they will not be treated with human rights as a suspect who committed a crime, but that their injustice will not be resolved even after being victimized by crime, and that criminals will run rampant. In this regard, for prosecution reform, the focus should be on improving the nation’s ability to prevent, detect, and punish crimes. The court’s judgment remains even if a case is unjustly prosecuted by the prosecution’s non-neutral and unfair investigation. That is why there is separation of powers. Nevertheless, the DP, which has been insisting that it will not be investigated by the prosecution from the beginning, is not qualified as a public party of the state.
To deprive the prosecution of the right to investigate the remaining six major crimes from the prosecution, which has the best investigative expertise and capabilities among the state’s investigation agencies, is deterioration of the prosecution, not reform of the prosecution. The DP and the Moon administration are on the path of traitors in their domestic affairs following their foreign affairs.
Given that they commit any act without hesitation and any remorse for their own benefit, a bill to completely abolish the prosecution’s investigative powers is very similar to the behavior of suspects in the Gapyeong Valley murder case, which gradually reveals its true nature. The public is well aware that the intention to deprive the prosecution of its investigation rights is a desperate struggle to prevent an investigation into former Gyeonggi Governor Lee Jae-myung, who was the ruling party’s presidential candidate (who lost the election).
They, who want to create a sanctuary where they should never be held accountable for their own crimes, while they are in power, use blind political logic to take the public hostage and instigate them. They are very similar to Lee Eun-hae’s actions in gaslighting victims. [Editor’s note: Lee Eun-hye, 31, and Cho Hyun-soo, 30, allegedly encouraged Lee’s husband, who couldn’t swim, to dive from a cliff and then left him to drown in hopes of receiving a payout from the victim’s life insurance worth 800 million won, or $650,000.] Like those who psychologically manipulated a person for the purpose of stealing insurance money and eventually drove him to death, their (the Moon administration and the DP) behavior is no different from a legislative runaway, saying they will provide safety insurance over the start of investigations due to crimes that they committed.
The fact that National Assembly members Hwang Un-ha and Choi Kang-wook, who are currently on trial as defendants after being investigated by the prosecution, are leading the way in passing the bill to completely abolish the prosecution’s investigative powers shows that their antisocial nature is stronger and more brazen than that of the Gapyeong Valley murderers.
The main culprits of the judicial justice murder case, which differs only in the locations of Gapyeong and Yeouido (where the National Assembly is located), resemble twins in gender and behavior, including the incumbent National Assembly speaker and the president. We see Moon Hee-sang, (former National Assembly speaker) who led the illegal and irregular process of the National Assembly’s new proportional representation system. He laid the foundation for neutralizing the National Assembly’s agenda adjustment committee by forcing Yang Hyang-ja, who was expelled from the ruling party, to be appointed a member of the committee as an independent. The National Assembly Act of the Republic of Korea is once again being ridiculed.
President Moon Jae-in, the head of the administration, is sending a signal that he will sign the bill as soon as it is passed by the National Assembly just before he leaves office. We do not expect much from him when considering his track record over the past five years, and he won’t be able to veto the self-defense law, for which he may be the first beneficiary. Nevertheless, we urge President Moon Jae-in to exercise veto power in advance to block excuses over another legal and political responsibility that he should take.
The current bill to completely abolish the prosecution’s investigative powers does not end up simply as a matter of changing legislation. The bill to pave the road for crime will lead to a great disaster for the Republic of Korea. For a country to be rich and for its people to live in peace, the system must be good, but what is more important than the system, is that the customs of its people must be sound. This bill gives a signal to society that those with money and power can commit crimes freely if necessary, which means that the customs of the Republic of Korea will degenerate one after another.
There is no justification to demand obedience from the public over the bill, which is promoted to leave certain people and certain groups’ crimes and corruption while in power out of reach from the rule of law. If victims of crime become skeptical and angry about the nation’s ability to investigate and punish it themselves, it is now entirely the fault of emergency committee chairman Yoon Ho-joong, Rep. Yang Hyang-ja, a National assemblymember pretending as a member of the opposition party, Park Byung-seok, National Assembly speaker, and President Moon Jae-in.
We also urge the prosecution to show its presence not only through words but by actions. Making up crimes that are not there is political retaliation, but reviving suspended justice is not political retaliation. If Prosecutor General Kim Oh-soo and other senior prosecutors who are pro-Moon administration have the least amount of ethics and spirit as prosecutors, they should encourage front-line prosecutors to launch an investigation into power-related crimes and corruption immediately. We hope that they will not miss an opportunity to escape the stigma of being the administration’s loyal dog.
The people who led this situation and the people who were in harmony with them are like those that would be killed if we were living in the Joseon Dynasty. Regardless of the execution and success of the judicial justice murder case, the conviction of their legislative atrocities must be carried out.
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