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[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I saw this, and I am wondering how my Japanese X wife is taking this. I'd bet outside of politics, she probably is feeling what most Americans thought, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, that it was horrifying to see the office get attacked like that when JFK was murdered. 

While this PM was out of office, it doesn't mater, he still represented the office he once held. 

But worse than that, our right wing gun nut cultists here want to spread their vile disease of "sell more" to the Japanese because of this. These morons don't want to face the fact that in Japan, WHICH IS NOT A DICTATORSHIP, it has virtually no firearm violence that would cause their government to go, "please hand out more guns". Yes, it is fucking horrible that our fellow human got shot dead with a firearm. But they also know that just because of that, MORE FIREARMS FOR EVERYONE, regardless if they have a need for one or not, WONT FUCKING WORK.

That isn't to say that any of their politicians should not have security ever, WE ARE NOT FUCKING ARGUING THAT. If someone is vetted for the job of protecting their officials, and they are not a domestic abuser, and they are mentally stable, and they passed all those hoops, then yea, the do have a ligit need to carry to protect their politicians. All we are arguing is stop going to the bullshit extreme of arguing if they can have a firearm then everyone can have one too, without being vetted.

AGAIN nobody in their right mind in a lucid state, who is being logical, would put up with a flight school that trained passenger Jet pilots if they simply said to a potential wannabe, "Ok, here you go, your flight leaves in two days, be on time to be in the cockpit" just two days after they applied. GUNS ARE NOT A FUCKING HOBBY, you still have to take them seriously at a shooting range. AND ANY FUCKING MORON who names their shooting range "Burgers And Bullets" is not fucking competent enough to own one. If you allow a kid with scrawny arms, who cant handle the recoil of an Uzi, and shoots her instructor in the head, that is plenty of fucking evidence you have no fucking clue what you are doing or selling.

Zebo, I just noticed you liked this post. I may have been too quick to post that. I do have A D D in all seriousness. 

I am not sure now, upon further deeper review if he was the squeaky clean uniter I might have mistakenly made him out to be.

According to a recent article, Japan was divided on the issue of supporting him, or not supporting him.

It may be that that PM, like far to many white Americans still do today when they say, "Why should I have to keep apologizing for what my ancestors did to blacks, and even women and Native Americans".

This former PM is correct in that the citizens of Japan do not have to apologize for what the fascist Empire did back then. I 100% agree with that.
But it is still important, just like slavery in America, to keep that memory in the history books, without honoring it like they were heros or Gods. 

This PM was advocating if I am correct, the dismantling of the separation of the military from the ruling class. That would be, if that really was what he advocated for, would be dangerous because that would lead to the very thing he said he should not have to apologize for in the first place. If you claim you were not responsible for the hyper nationalism back then, then don't be stupid and set the stage for that to happen again. That is why it is important to keep the fascist Empire in the history books. Not because Japanese are inherently evil, but just like any society in the world, as the axiom rightfully goes, "Those who fail to learn from the past, are doomed to repeat it."

That isn't trying to shame anyone, just a warning that if you don't keep the bad stuff humans are capable of in the history books of what not to do to your fellow human, you most certainly have the potential to set the stage for the same thing to happen again.

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Shinzo Abe went further than saying the citizens of Japan had no need to apologize for the systemic, institutionalized sexual enslavement of women. He spent most of his career pushing the false claim that it never happened at all.  

The reason Abe wanted to erase the crimes of the Japan's fascist past is because Abe was a fascist.

Boru