Hello All,
Does it really matter now? The KHF has shown us that they don't care about victims of alleged abuse, they could care less about their reputation in the US and they certainly could care less about what public perception of Hapkido is...
One week, all is forgiven, then, posts of expulsion. This is truly schitzo behavior - organizations should not be making rash moves like this after they have taken a policy of "forgiveness" - it makes them look foolish.
Now we have a competing "KHF" - this should be fun...I've said this before - if we all ignore KHF paper, they will just have to go away. I think ALL the Americans were conned here, not just some conned by one American - I am sticking up for no one, but really, doesn't seem odd that there are two KHF party lines here? One from Bae and one from Oh - saying two different things? It is clear to me that this was all a schill game in the first place - keep the prize moving under diffferent vails and everyone will scramble into each other trying to get to the truth first.
Justice? Not really. If some people really did get phoney certificates, they have never appeared, and never been used as evidence in a court in Florida - where proving fraud is really easy. They are not served by this dismissal.
The idea of riegning in the "questionable" element by the KHF almost seemed reasonable - "remediate our own from the inside" kind of thing - now, a scant two weeks later, poof, reversal of opinion - three months to render nothing, then blammo, "out you go".
I don't think in 2004 there can be "justice" in a martial art - we cannot hit each other, so law courts replace our desire to place foot in groin...and when did a court really dispense "justice".
The most we can do as practioners of Hapkido is keep the house really clean, then we can eat without the roaches crawling around.
Kevin