Mighty Mike White

Hate Crime Victim

Murdered 'cuz he's American

On the night Mike drowned under suspicious circumstances, he was taunted by a group of boys, students of the Akideo school across the street from the sauna. He was called "Hamburger Boy" as well as being cursed in Korean. The majority of illegal protesters were students. When the police questioned me, the first question they had in the ER, "Which school does he attend?". Teen on teen gang violence and rape was a growing social trend the Daegu Police department was facing daily. The lack of juvenile laws in place made teenagers recruitment targets for local ally gangs, elite brat packs, and underground political activists. (growing membership of AES and professional political activists use of students aged 18 and under for rallying and spreading messages outside of governmental control - Anti-US Beef organizers & MBC Program staff).

When I answered the police with, "He's homeschooled" - they immediately made the assumption that the assailents were not teenagers, and that no assailing had takent place. Every move on the part of investigators were to show that Mike had somehow beat himself unconscious, then by some means, transported himself into a cesspool in the sauna, and drowned himself after fainting from having unproven temporary 'light' heart failure.

The original Korean translation of the autopsy report shows the scientist was trying to frame his findings in the light that Mike might have some as yet undiagnosed problem, such as severe retardation - or Riley's disease. With extensive medical evaluations needed for international travel & residency, any pre-existing conditions of that nature would have been self evident. Yet, in arrogence of knowing English translations would be long in coming, inaccurate and ineffective on Korean social & justice systems, both investigators within the Ministry of Justice and legal agents for the Court system, enjoyed creating a precedence by which it will be virtually impossible for any foreigner to take a Korean to court over homicide again.

Practicing blatent malfeasence of office from my attorney, to the Judiciary committee who passed verdict, the Korean system played kangaroo court with Mike's case from the start. The police refused to even open an investigation until after international pressure and 6 weeks had passed.

Seven years and counting since Mike's murder and the horrid deaths of 4 other foreigners during the Anti-US Beef riots - the producers of the erroneous report on Mad Cow disease have been charged, held liable and processed through the courts. Yet the victims of their crimes remain unacknowledged and ignored. Perhaps the Koreans feel this will 'just be a wee wrinkle' in their next life.

Ignored by Clinton

In the polical background of Mike's case if the FTA agreement between Korea & the US, something the Bush Administration hadn't been able to push through, (due to artifically constructed social unrest - using juveniles) from resistance over the US-Beef issue. Lee Moon Bak had already slighted Mike's case, when he suddenly stopped an economic meeting - had his security detail rush him across noonday Seoul traffic - across a megopolis to arrive at a suburban police station and demand to know why the police were doing nothing on the case of an attempted kidnapping of a pre-teen Korean girl.

The girl had been in the elevator at her apartment complex when a knife welding man attempted to abduct her. Her parents had tried unsuccessfully to get the police to act upon the evidence from the CCTV footage. After Lee Moon Bak's intervention, the police, using facial recognition software, were able to find the man and prosecute him.

In Mike's case, CCTV footage was also available. The sauna assured the police that 'nothing of note' was on the footage. The police, as a matter of record in the official police report, accepted this statement as irrefutable truth without reviewing the footage. Let that sink in. No police agent ever saw the CCTV footage from the night of Mike's murder. The court deemed it inadmissable as evidence at the inital hearing.

When a foreign child is murdered by Koreans, the CCTV footage must be suppressed. When a Korean child is accosted, Lee Moon Bak has an opportunity to play 'father to the nation'.

While Lee Moon Bak is playing his social drama games with child welfare in Korea, Hillary Clinton is being prepared for her Seoul visit, her first on the 2009 DOS tour of Asia. Hillary wanted a feather in her cap. A promise and progress that the Bush administration couldn't get. With the Mad Cow disease being proven as a hoax, the social climate was strong for a firm hand on the situation by Clinton. Her lack of acutity in dealing with Koreans not only made her miss her mark, her winning points turned hollow in the long term. She traded backing for Mike's case in exchange for the promise of an early signature (something inevitable polically & economically speaking) for the word and hollow promise of Korea to improve it's humanitarian treatment of non-Koreans.

Was this decision by Clinton to withdraw her assistance from the case affected by a false SBI report attached to the identity theft of my name in 1997? Or did it have more to do with an easy win and a convenience for Hillary? Her track record speaks for it'self on this score. Hillary is but one face of the DoS. Bottom line, the US government has more power than it needs to affect a postivie outcome for expatriates, they just don't care to be troubled to do so. There's actually a class division among international Americans. Those connected diplomatically, and those who are not. Those in the former enjoy living an a protected bubble, while the latter are at the mercy of social forces at the grassroots level. Clinton stood by while the Korean government mowed the lawn - irrespective of merit or humanitarian concerns for their victims.