At 09:55 AM 7/23/00 -1000, Reese wrote:
>Japanese nationals are not Americans, American law does not
>apply in Japan. If the Japanese government is oppressing its citizenry,
>it is a uniquely Japanese problem, there is no reason for the USofA to
>get all up in arms about it, just as there was no reason for the USofA
>to get all up in arms & involved in, say, Pol Pot's Cambodia.
No, it's a human problem. Doesn't mean that the US Government should be
taking up arms to prevent it, but that's different from Amnesty International
doing something about it. US law currently forbids US citizens from
engaging militarily in their own foreign policy, the way many Americans did
during the
Spanish Civil War (joining either the Commie or Fascist armies)
or early WW2 (joining the Canadian or British armies.)
But that doesn't mean it's inappropriate to be involved.
In this case, the US government chose to intervene on the side of the
Japanese secret police, though their most recent moves were unsuccessful
and counterproductive.
> >>As you said, the story is incomplete. Look before leaping, eh?
> >>Take your paragraph above. How could jya know that the japanese
> >>would want the list taken down, before posting it? Logic fault,
> >>there,,,
> >
> >Because he was communicating with his Japanese source, who knew quite
> >well that the PSIA did not want this story aired.
> >
> >Duh.
>
>This implies jya should have checked with the Japanese Ministry and asked
>their permission before posting the list.
Feh - JYA's got no legal obligation to some other government.
He's got the usual moral obligations all of us have - he decided that they
weighed more strongly on the side of publishing than on the side of
cooperating
with a government that's got no authority over him.
That's the nice thing about censorship and the Internet - it only takes
one brave person to blow censorship away, and anonymity makes bravery much
easier.
Later, Reese replied to
> At 08:23 PM 23/07/00 -0400, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote:
> >Aleph is a religious organization.
So were the Branch Davidians, though Aum's social teachings were clearly evil.
> Strong ties to one religion or another can be found within the Hezbollah,
> the IRA, et al. Was Aum Shinrikyo NOT a religious .org?
The IRA's ties to Catholicism are minimal at best - they've tended to be
Marxists,
rejecting Christianity as the opiate of the people, as well as ignoring it
personally.
Just because they don't practice their religion doesn't mean that the
religion they
don't practice isn't Catholic. But if the Pope told them to disarm,
they probably wouldn't.
Thanks!
Bill
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