My thoughts are intertwined

My thoughts are intertwined and I can't organize. I'm confused because I feel like I've become too conservative to speak of the protection of law and order. At last week's seminar, we talked about Mr. Fujii crossing a crosswalk on a red light, and it feels so awkward to see the scenery of this morning.

Acting Commissioner Lee Ho-young said, "We have responded strictly to illegal and violent protests." I cannot continue my speech without splitting the words "illegal and violent protests." The demolition workers at the Namildang building in Yongsan and the workers occupying Ssangyong Motor factory staged "illegal and violent protests." However, the invasion of the Western District Court by rioters in the early morning of Jan. 19 is not just illegal and violent protests.

The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) was able to cross the National Assembly wall while demonstrating in Yeouido during the Roh Moo Hyun government. It did not enter the National Assembly at that time. It demonstrated that protests were held on the basis of acknowledging the least authority and order of the republic. Many of the struggles I have seen, which the police concluded were illegal and violent protests, occurred when the law ate people and when the police first assaulted people.

Let's prepare for Nam Tae-ryeong and the Western District Court. There is a big gap between solidarity that protects and enhances the common sense line of a society and violence that destroys the minimum premise for a republic to be established. In Nam Tae-ryeong, citizens ran to prevent police from suppressing violence and endured situations that could become dangerous from hypothermia while being trapped on asphalt in the middle of winter by the police. They were initially defined as 'illegal' by law enforcement and withstood police violence with their whole bodies.

Why? Why would he sit there shaking off a police bus and breaking through the siege on a stupidly cold day? Wouldn't it be better to be released within 48 hours after failing in a warm detention center and pay a partial fine?

After the December 3 martial law, there was some kind of tacit agreement among those on the side of democracy and the republic. They say no violence. This violence is not just a violent demonstration. Just as soldiers and citizens alike were careful because they thought violence should be prevented in front of the National Assembly on December 3, the demonstration was held with the possibility of escalating into violence conscious of the second martial law even after the martial law was lifted. Those who rushed to Namtae-ryeong did not fight because they did not know how to fight. It is right to say that they instinctively understood how to fight the possibility of overwhelming violence called martial law. As far as I understand, the majority of people holding cheering sticks are not the type of people who distance themselves from the police when a confrontation occurs, calling it a violent demonstration.

It was foolish, but during the execution of two arrest warrants, the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit and the police tried to prevent violence. There was a concern that bloodshed would lead to something out of control.

However, those rioters who support the president are crossing the line. They are crossing the line continuously, following the martial law and the security office's obstruction of law enforcement. What they have shown is not just "illegal and violent protests." Would the police be so helpless if they were the "illegal and violent protests" we know well? I often recall the debate of the Marxist state theory that the state should be viewed not as a neutral tool but as a class-biased organization since December 3rd.

It is not clear to me what to specify or name the "illegal and violent protests" of those rioters. Aren't they the most accurate people to call anti-state forces? Isn't what they are doing truly "civil war" itself.

Nevertheless, one thing can be said clearly. The most essential issue in the time frame from December 3 to the present is still unresolved. It was the time when Yoon Suk Yeol was restrained and everyone thought it was moving into the presidential race. However, the invasion of the Western District Court as a result of the arrest brought the issue back to the 'civil war'. The civil war has not ended, but has been prolonged. It has made it a idle talk of figuring out who will become president. The fight to defend the republic from civil war is still ongoing.