agirl
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ORIGINAL: Raethepain I read the article in the Daily Express, and it was appauling. Really closed-minded and scathing. some of the lexical choices were very manipulative- my mother turned round and told me she thought the Master had "evil eyes". What on earth. lol.......I'm smiling at your mother's comment. I wouldn't expect any less from the Daily Express... or the Daily Mail...as a rule, if there is the slightest opportunity to inject a *sleaze or sex* aspect into a *story* that's what they'll do. They can sensationalise the most mundane story. The BBC version was fact based and unbiased and a *storm in a tea cup* is the best description of the whole thing. I listened to a radio interview with the chap in question , Lee Thompson, and he presented himself rather well. He also gave more details about why the girl burned her passport and return ticket.... ...According to him, she came here thinking he was wealthy , found he wasn't, decided to leave but stay in the UK, illegally, so she burned her documents. He had *words* with her and was cross that she'd done that. After he'd adminished her, she called a friend in the US, who contacted the police because of her * no documentation situation* , not because she was being *held unwillingly*. The bare facts as presented by the BBC ... The participants are all there voluntarily and there are no grounds for police involvement. Once you blow away the smoke , that's ALL there is left. agirl (The BBC mentioned that there were an *estimated 25,000 Goreans worldwide*......( no idea how they reached that figure though))
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