Live Updates of the World Events:South Korean President Implements Martial Law and then Faces Impeachment Charges After Lawmakers Unanimously Reverse the Martial Law Order

"South Korean President Implements Martial Law and then Faces Impeachment Charges After Lawmakers Unanimously Reverse the Martial Law Order"

This is a manifestation— South Korea’s five-hour implementation of martial law— of government aiming to create order, not by setting a humanitarian, ethical example, along with legislating and enacting executive and judicial action around that same framework, but instead, it is a manifestation of government aiming to implement order by maintaining and extending the president’s time in office, by the president’s own prerogative, under the President of South Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration of martial law, by means of stamping out dissent, arresting political opponents, and coercing in a way that takes away individuality, along with the freedom of speech and assembly that goes hand in hand with individual rights and individual pursuits being honored so far as they do not impinge on the freedom of others.

After lawmakers unanimously vetoed the declaration of martial law Yoon had put forth unilaterally, with the consultation of just one or two other people, the government of South Korea ordered an impeachment process to call into question the president's declaration of martial law, questioning his ability to remain in office.  The government needed to garner two-thirds of the lawmakers' approval that he is unfit for office, and it was just short by five, amounting to 195 of 300 of the government's votes, with many people of the People Power Party boycotting the vote, the party that the president belongs to.  The Democratic Party of Korea was the political party that had called on the vote.

During the time of martial law, freedom of speech and freedom of assembly were suspended.

This cannot happen in the twenty-first century.

- ben james blu mencius bussewitz