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South Korea's Martial Law Shocker: A New Era of Authoritarianism?
What happens when a democratic nation suspends civil liberties overnight? South Korea stands at a crossroads as President Yoon Suk-il declares martial law, igniting a global discussion on the boundaries of political power. We scrutinize this seismic shift, drawing parallels to historical moments like Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus, and examine the fragile balance between security and freedom. The clampdown on media under military oversight poses pressing questions on the future of free speech and information flow in a democracy.
As the political storm brews, tensions flare within South Korea's government, with President Yoon Sung-yeol attributing his actions to threats from pro-North Korean factions. We unpack the political chaos, where a powerful opposition in parliament grapples with this unanticipated authoritarian shift. Could this be a political misstep, or a necessary move against internal threats? Our discussion turns to the broader geopolitical stage, particularly the United States' response and its implications for a strategic partnership that has long been a cornerstone of regional stability.
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Speaker 4:Hello patriots, Good evening. Welcome to the show. So South Korea has officially declared martial law. Now, if you don't know what martial law is, it's basically the end of all your civil liberties and rights and anything that you hold sacred. It means you have nothing left in the world but to do as the government commands of you. Now this is from Investopedia Martial law the substitution of a civil government by military authorities to deal with crisis.
Speaker 4:It's very important that you understand to deal with crisis and what that means. If the government gets special powers during times of crisis, there will always be a crisis. We saw this during COVID. They do emergency powers right, Not quite as far as martial law, but do you really put it past the government to go that far? Can martial law happen in the United States of America? Yes, has it ever happened in the history of the United States of America? The answer is yes. Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus and incorporated martial law.
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Speaker 5:The South Korean president declaring martial law in a late night TV address. Cnn's Mike Valerio joining us now from Seoul. Mike, I know the detail pretty sketchy at this point. What do we know?
Speaker 6:Well, we have disturbing details that are just crossing the Reuters wire, becky, as our colleagues and team of journalists are sorting through what this means, reuters reporting, reuters reporting at this hour that all media in South Korea are coming under the control of martial law command in South Korea.
Speaker 4:So what that means. Understand how extreme this is. South Korea is supposed to be a democracy. It's a capitalist country. This is not North Korea, where they just have 24-7 martial law. This is America's ally, south Korea, and this is the action they're taking. The media is now under control of the government and the military. The media there is no more independent press. There's no more freedom of speech. This includes outlets such as Fox News South Korea or CNN or MSNBC or ABC News or whatever's in there is now under control of the federal government.
Speaker 6:What that means for us here at CNN unclear. Our bureau is broadcasting from the heart of Seoul, south Korea, told by law enforcement that they can be arrested without any warrant. In this new chapter of martial law that has begun just about an hour, an hour and a half ago. So to bring our viewers up to speed what exactly we're dealing with here, the president of South Korea, yoon Suk-il, comes on TV in an unannounced address to the nation and says Becky, because of what he described as elements of government that are, from his view, sympathetic to North Korea, to communist forces, because of those things and others, he is declaring martial law for the first time since this country has been ruled by military dictatorship in the 1980s.
Speaker 4:Now, they can say whatever they want through the government right. The government controls all the information. They control over all the intel. They control what information they give to the press. We see it all the time in the United States. We saw it during the pandemic. We've seen it during the press. We see it all the time in the United States. We saw it during the pandemic. We've seen it during the campaigns.
Speaker 4:We've seen some serious malfeasance from the United States government, which, in all of its faults, is still a republic. It's still a form of democracy. We still were able to elect out of office those people that made those false claims and released those false information and targeted people with the Justice Department. They're not going to be able to do that here. This is now officially like a total dictatorship. Is what he has announced? The martial law is like a temporary dictatorship. It's an extreme action, uh, and you'll never know if what he's saying is true or not.
Speaker 4:Are there people, there's people in south korean government that are sympathetic to north korea? I do not believe that for a micro second. South korea is a flourishing economy. It's a flourishing company company. If you look at South Korea from space, you can see all of the lights, all of the brightness and electricity in North Korea is just dark because they can't even afford to keep their lights on. There's a deeper story to what is going on here, and if you ever wonder what the Second Amendment is for, this is precisely it. When a government oversteps its bounds, when a government is completely out of control, when a government institutes martial law is when the Second Amendment is necessary, because you no longer have your First Amendment rights or your Third or Fourth Amendment rights. Martial law gets rid of all of your rights. You effectively have no rights but what the government decides that you have, and that's not how rights work. This is why the right and conservatives fight for your right to own an AR-15.
Speaker 6:Now we are trying to sort through what this means for democracy in this bastion of democratic rule in East Asia. I live about just a couple minutes away from where we're broadcasting from. There are police, becky, who are on their phones calling their captains, calling their colleagues, asking what are they to do. What does this mean? What is going on? In the building that I live in and when you're just walking through the streets, there are people who are running to their families' homes to be with them, to figure out what to do, to be close to loved ones in this moment that is unprecedented in so many of our memories.
Speaker 6:So Yoon Seok-il, the president of South Korea, did not lay out what specifically he wants to do with these martial law provisions. We're waiting for some sort of text that outlines what powers he says he will have, but from the information that is trickling out, the leader of the Democratic opposition party, lee Jae-myung, is saying there's no way this can fly, and paraphrasing what he's saying as we're taking in all this information, becky, this is an illegal move, lee Jae-myung, the opposition leader, says, and this has to be cancelled. So lawmakers are streaming to parliament, but we are also seeing reports of activity at parliament being declared illegal as well because of these martial law regulations that apparently have come into effect. So to say that this is unsettling would absolutely be the understatement of the evening. Here, at 11.42 pm, local time on a Tuesday night, there are multitudes of people across the city who are stunned and are trying to figure out how an unpopular president made this move and what is going to happen next and what this means for democracy here in South Korea. Becky.
Speaker 4:It means it's over. It means it's over.
Speaker 5:Stand by. I'm going to let you go just for the moment, because I'm sure you can spend your time wisely bringing in more information to CNN. Thank you for the time being. I want to bring in Kenneth Choi, the international editor for the Korean newspaper, the Chosun Ilbo. It's good to have you. How do you assess what is going on and why?
Speaker 8:Well, actually a lot of people are dismayed. I've been in close communication with a lot of people journalists and friends in the political circle. Actually, everybody's flabbergasted. I don't know what's going on right now. We understand why the president made his call the way he did it, but it's absolutely stunning, you know, it seems like he hasn't informed a lot of people, even inside his circle, so there's a lot of confusion going on. The opposition party has filed like yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 5:Yeah, sorry, let me just be quite clear. You said you understand why the president did this, made this decision. Can you explain what that is? Why specifically do you believe that he has declared martial law and who are these sort of communist elements that he is talking about wanting to purge?
Speaker 8:Well, he is frustrated because the opposition party, which controls about like almost two thirds in the parliament, has impeached like 18 of his cabinet ministers level. Impeach the prosecutor general, impeach the prosecutor general, so they are impeaching everybody. And then the opposition party cut down like almost 4 billion dollars in the budget, government budget.
Speaker 4:So he believed that yeah, so just go ahead and become a dictator because the opposing party doesn't do what you want it to do. I mean, think about that. You could just literally just say what if you are the communist in government and you're pretending that everybody else is a communist? I mean, we've seen that before. We've seen Democrats sit there and say the Republicans are weaponizing the justice system. As they sit there and weaponize the justice system, what if he is the communist? Should any leader have that power to declare a martial law? And now, all of a sudden, you have no rights. I'm. I'm the ultimate authority.
Speaker 8:The military is the ultimate authority the opposition party is trying to shut his government down and he believed that, um, you know, or the leftist element from the North Korean agents or whatever, has penetrated into this movement and they are inciting all this instability. I'm not sure whether this is deemed necessary to have a martial law, that's a secondary question. But when I said, I understand why he did it, because he's frustrated. I'm not sure whether that's justified, because even he's the president of the ruling party, that he will try to stop this. So right now there's a lot of confusion going on. The I mean, you know, the martial law committee chair, I guess whoever it is has declared that, you know, no political activities allowed from now on. So I think, as you said, the very essence.
Speaker 4:No political activities. No political activities. No conversations about politics. No news about politics. No protesting the government for the action that they just took. Zero political activities.
Speaker 8:Our democracy has probably come to a halt. I don't know whether it's a price we should pay. So a lot of people right now it's middle of the midnight, so people are confused, still watching what's being, you know, being sort of played out. And actually, you know, there's a lot of legal aspects into this that needs to be taken care of. First, the president declared martial law, but the parliament can override this. And if the parliament requests, with a simple majority request, to put the martial law back into the cabinet, then he has to follow through. But the question is, will he or you know, does he, you know, bind to follow through or does he, you know, just continue to declare martial law? It still remains to be seen. So you know, a lot of people are very, very confused at this time of hour.
Speaker 4:I love how everybody's confused and this guy's saying I understand why he did it, but nobody's outraged. Come on, dude, Americans would be up in arms literally.
Speaker 5:Um, you said a lot of people are confused. Um, it is obviously very late at night. This announcement was made on live television at 10 30 at night. Can you explain why you believe that the president might have made this decision uh, to go live with this so late in the evening, and why not wait until tomorrow? I mean, is there any understanding as to whether he thought, you know, leaving this until the morning would have been a risk?
Speaker 8:the morning would have been a risk. I have no idea. To tell you the truth, I don't know why he chose this time of the day to declare martial law To me and a lot of people that I talk to. I'm not sure whether he has thought through this whole procedure at this moment, because the police are in confusion, the military is not mobilized at all. I just looked out the window and you know the traffic is still going on without any you know problems. So, and then you know, the martial law committee just declared that no political you know association is allowed, but that's just the words. You know there's no physical movement.
Speaker 4:No political activity, but that's what martial law is. Now, should a government, any government, have the ability to do that? My answer is absolutely not Like martial law. Like no, there is no martial law. There is no justifiable action to strip away everybody's rights. You're born with them, they are yours, they are absolutely your rights, and the people of South Korea think that they are in this democracy and you're clearly not and I.
Speaker 4:This did happen under Abraham Lincoln and I do not like him specifically because of that. Here's a video of um some people in the street. So that's what's going on in South Korea Just straight totalitarian government control it's essentially North Korea. Control it's essentially North Korea. It is essentially the same thing as North Korea. Nor have they given any good reason as to why they did it. Here is a video of let's see. Like I told you guys, I don't look at these videos. I want you to have a genuine reaction. This one is called Is South Korea Saving Democracy? There's military people breaking into a house or some building of some sort with rifles. For what purpose, I don't know, because they have people of different political beliefs on the other side of the aisle.
Speaker 5:These guys can't even get up there.
Speaker 2:I can't even watch it.
Speaker 4:It's horrible. Any of you veterans out there know that that was just dreadful, absolutely dreadful. Out there know that that was just dreadful, absolutely dreadful. And now this precedence has been set by south korea that they can just declare martial law whenever they feel like it, or a government can do that whenever they feel like it, and it is absolutely just insane why he's doing it. The justification is completely um, it's just not there. It's it's not there. Um the the parliament did vote on it. Let's look at um.
Speaker 9:This report from cbs news busy breaking news day on cbs news 247. Welcome back, I'm Reid Cowan. So we continue to follow that breaking news out of South Korea. But the country's president declared martial law and you're seeing people in the streets and elsewhere this move drawing hundreds of those protesters to the South Korean parliament building. As we speak, they're waving flags. We are also starting to see military vehicles on what are otherwise very peaceful streets in South Korea. Lawmakers are fighting back after that declaration of martial law. They're voting to defy the country's president and immediately lift that martial law declaration. The president there says he's doing it because he believes there are factions who are conspiring with North Korea and doing anti-state activities. Cbs News reporter Jen Kwan reports from Seoul, south Korea.
Speaker 2:Lawmakers in South Korea's parliament has voted down President Yoon Sung-yeol's martial law declaration. Early in a surprise late-night televised address, president Yoon declared emergency martial law, vowed to eradicate quote pro-North Korean anti-state forces. This is the first time in 44 years that martial law has been declared in South Korea and has come to a shelter residence here and sparked confusion. After the president's announcement there were chaotic scenes outside the parliament building here in Seoul, but 190 of the 300 members of parliament were able to get into the building to block the martial law declaration.
Speaker 4:jen kwan cbs news good and that's how it should be. And now I'm sure a lot of you were thinking well, parliament voted it down, so therefore democracy worked right? My answer to that is no, democracy did not work because in the time that he declared martial law, martial law was enacted right. So in the time between the action of martial law and when parliament voted, during that time the government had full control. It can do anything it wanted. Government had full control, we can do anything it wanted.
Speaker 4:So if somebody's in power who's the president of south korea, right? And they say man, I got political enemies, I want to kill them, I want to arrest them and I want to kill them. And I don't want to judge, I don't want a jury, I want just a quick military tribunal. So here's what I'm going to do I'm going to declare martial law at 11 o'clock at night. Parliament is not going to be going to be able to meet until the next day. So at 1101, after I declare this, I want you to round everybody up, arrest them, file charges on them and kill them before parliament can vote on it, and then everything's done. All their enemies are gone. And it was completely unjust. They found a legal loop. I wouldn't even call it a loophole. This is just a blatant violation of democratic rights and principles and it's just insane sane.
Speaker 9:Here's a cbs report on um, the white house reacting angola. To talk to willie james inman, who is in that nation with the president right now president joe biden, willie, we understand the us has a response about the situation the declaration of martial law in south korea. What is that?
Speaker 7:hey, there, reed, we're just getting this in, but also note that President Biden was asked about the situation and he said I'm just getting briefed in response to reporters' questions about the situation in South Korea. But we do have a statement from an NSC spokesperson. I'll just read that statement for our viewers. It says the administration is in contact with Republic of Korea government and is monitoring the situation closely as we work to learn more. The US was not notified in advance of this announcement. We are seriously concerned by the developments we are seeing on the ground in the Republic of Korea and I'll also note that official said, as the president said himself, that he was being briefed on the situation. This, of course, is a major concern for the United States, which is a major partner of South Korea, a key ally in that region, and also note there's a significant military presence in South Korea as well. So the United States, of course, is concerned about that growing situation and will be bringing you any further details we get as the president travels here and continues his trip in Angola.
Speaker 4:Let's be honest, joe Biden is not being briefed on anything. He's sitting there eating his ice cream cone, crapping his pants and laughing at coloring books. I mean, the guy's brain is Italian sausage. It's freaking gone. So who's running the country? A question I have Kamala Harris doesn't have the brainwaves to run a dishwasher, so I don't know who's running the country. I guess a lot of bureaucrats. I guess the ambassador to South Korea is going to be very busy. The US was not notified. They are saying this seems like a very impulsive act by the leader of South Korea and he should be removed from office. I mean this is insane. This is absolutely insane.
Speaker 9:Talk to you in Angola. We are looking at in a split screen just a second ago live pictures there on the ground in Seoul, south Korea. There they are again and you can see police on the ground. A moment ago we saw military vehicles on what is otherwise a series of peaceful streets there in South Korea, unnerving to say the least. On the South Korean peninsula. You know, willie, we've heard in recent weeks many officials from the United States talking about the US continued commitment on the Korean Peninsula, especially for South Korea, as it speaks to economic partnerships as well. Of course, the history of military support there in South Korea is long and story between the United States and South Korea. Talk to us about the position, at least from the White House, regarding being behind South Korea from an economic standpoint. That was a big narrative during the recent APEC summit.
Speaker 7:Yes, it certainly is. South Korea is a major trading partner. There are not only major appliances.
Speaker 4:The connection between the United States and South Korea is very close. It is a very close ally. They are a direct ally. That's why North Korea hates South Korea is because them and America teamed up. They've teamed up since the 50s with the Korean War. The DMZ is the line that divides South Korea from North Korea. It's currently still at war with North Korea, which is a totalitarian dictatorship, which now South Korea was for a few hours until parliament shut that down, which is a good thing, but he still did it for a few hours. So in that few hours he essentially, if had he planned it correctly, could have done whatever he wanted. But the relationship between the United States and South Korea is incredibly close. They are highly capitalist. Like you said, a lot of our appliance come from South Korea. A lot of capitalist jobs from American companies come from South Korea.
Speaker 7:This is very surprising news, tvs, everything you could think of, electronics, everything you can really get your hand on that are exported to the United States, that American consumers purchase Vehicles, of course, as well, with major manufacturers like Kia and Hyundai being based in that country. I will also note that South Korea isn't necessarily in the best neighborhood. You have to the north, of course, north Korea, and so the United States has maintained that presence for decades, not only in South Korea, but also in Japan as well, nearby Now. Japan and Korea have a storied history. There have been tense moments, but the US in recent years has been able to bring all three countries to a trilateral meeting.
Speaker 4:We have a lot more cooperation happening between the United States plays a pivotal role in South Korea. They're basically a puppet to the United States to keep their eye on North Korea. That's essentially what it, what it is and what it's for, and there is no, there's no other, really any other way to explain it. But the United States saying that they're surprised by this is weird. Typically, if you're going to declare a national martial law, you're going to let the US know, especially since we have all these military bases there A lot. The United States military is directly on the line of the DMZ between South Korea and North Korea. They're stationed there. You don't tell anybody. You don't let the American troops know. Here's a clip from CBS News that's being commented a lot on Twitter. Let's see what this is.
Speaker 3:Why has South Korea's president declared martial law? I'm at London Heathrow, here, about to get on my plane for Seoul to report on what's happening. Embattled, president Yoon Suk-yool declared this martial law, putting the military in charge, suspending all existing laws and even censoring the media, and saying that he wanted to protect the country from the threat of what he says were North Korean communist forces, but he didn't warn of any specific threats, like an attack. He also blamed, though domestic politics, the opposition party, the Democratic Party, for trying to pass nearly two dozen impeachment motions against his government. He also said that they wanted to make massive cuts to his proposed national budget, which then froze government. And after he declared martial law, south Korean troops could be seen trying to enter the legislature, which is known as the National Assembly.
Speaker 3:But just after 1 am, things changed. The assembly voted unanimously all 190 members present, at least physically there out of the 330. And those people who voted to nullify martial law even included members of the president's own party to block that declaration. We saw that citizens outside cheered, they celebrated, and now that I'm in the air, we've got a major update. They celebrated and now that I'm in the air, we've got a major update. South greece president now says he will lift his marshall law declaration once it meets with his cabinet well?
Speaker 4:I hope so, but that is. It's scary and it's really scary to think that and I know you're thinking well, this is the united states. Listen, this stuff can here. It has happened here in the past. It has. It's a fact. Look up Abraham Lincoln, the suspension of habeas corpus. Look what they did in Katrina during hurricane Katrina, where they effectively declared martial law and the United States national guard went around house by house with assault weapons and tanks and confiscated everybody's firearms. Look it up, google it. It has happened.
Speaker 4:This is why this is one of the reasons I do this show is to fight against this. You know, human rights are yours. They're yours, you own them. They can never be taken away from you. I don't care what anybody says. You have the right to speak your mind, especially against the government. You have the right to possess a firearm to protect you from the government. All of your rights exist to protect you from the government. Freedom of the press is to protect you from the government. It's to protect you from oppression so that you can be free. Martial law is the biggest oppressive act a government can enact. It's essentially declaring we're a dictator. Overnight it's over and there's nothing you can do about it Now.
Speaker 4:Presumably the South Korean troops were there to stop parliament from voting, and they could have done that had this guy planned it out differently and done it the right way. Again, it seems very impulsive. He could have rounded them up and had them arrested so they couldn't vote Think about that and they wouldn't have been able to vote it down. But these things happen and this is why the decentralizing of government is so important. This is why limiting government and shrinking the size of government is incredibly important. It's one of the most important missions of my life.
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