thursday 1 Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 and they didn't have their lives ripped apart. (Deportation is not being ripped apart) Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Originally Posted By: 69 Originally Posted By: RobBright clearly got treated differently compared to a foreigner if they were in on the same charges. Yeah they didn't have to walk out in front of 255634 cameras broadcast live on every tv channel and do a press conference looking like they have just had a quick make up session and a change of clothes and also looking well fed. Just added a bit more to your post to add validity. Of course, she can do just a quick bow, give it 6 mths and people will have moved on. The foreigners, kicked out and never allowed to step back into this country again, in some cases maybe ok after 10yrs. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Originally Posted By: thursday and they didn't have their lives ripped apart. (Deportation is not being ripped apart) Depends. Did they have a life set up here? Did they have new friends? Perhaps a girlfriend/fiancee? It goes on their criminal record and may stop them entering other countries as an effect from it. Link to post Share on other sites
69 5 Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Chances are you might want to look your best in the circumstances. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Yes, am sure that the police gave the foreigners a chance. Oops no. They didn't dumped them on the first plane back without their possessions. Link to post Share on other sites
frannyo 2 Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Perhaps people should care less about looking over shoulders and seeing what somneone else got as punishmet for being a fool and more about just not being a willing fool themselves. = problem doesn't arise Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 I didn't think they got deported, I thought they were banged up in one of Japans secretive institutions. While i agree with your sentiment Frannyo, surely for the rule of justice and democracy to be vaild, everyone, regardless of creed and colour, should be punished to the same extremes. One rule for all. Link to post Share on other sites
kokodoko 67 Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 The Japanese authorities are fully hypocritical regarding drugs especially when they gave heroin and opium to the chinese population during the Nanking Massacre to pacify them. " To pacify the population during the long occupation, highly addictive narcotics, including opium and heroin, were distributed by Japanese soldiers to the people of Nanking, regardless of age. An estimated 50,000 persons became addicted to heroin while many others lost themselves in the city's opium dens." Yamauchi Chemists produced heroin for the military. The japanese soldiers who took Singapore were supposedly on a mixture of heroin and amphetamines to curtail their exhaustion as they pedalled down Malaya. Have a look at this book for the facts. Consuming habits: drugs in history and anthropology By Jordan Goodman, Paul E. Lovejoy, Andrew Sherratt Link to post Share on other sites
frannyo 2 Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 Well yes Tubby Beaver, but given the real world circumstances we live in, and the very clear knowledge that Japan ain't easy on people they find with drugs, it would seem the sensible thing to simply not do them. Easy! Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 If you are like me and many other foreigners, Mr Tubby, you may well enjoy many situations here in Japan where you are treated in better ways than a Japanese person and enjoy those advantages and priveleges. Want to give them up too? Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 Originally Posted By: grungy-gonads If you are like me and many other foreigners, Mr Tubby, you may well enjoy many situations here in Japan where you are treated in better ways than a Japanese person and enjoy those advantages and priveleges. Want to give them up too? what such ways? I agree, with japan's ultra conservative view of drugs its not worth doing them, so I don't. But the rule of law should be equally strict for everyone, that is a basic tenet of democracy. Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 But it never really is, is it... Here in Aus we very definitely have a 2 class system - them and us. Initially it was just the indigineous falling into the catagory where health care was inaccessable, education stopped at about 12 etc etc - but as a nation we tend to rush to judgement about anyone of colour from Africa, or anyone who appears to be of Muslim persuasion as well. You are right - it is the basic tenet of democracy that all be treated equally - but to be honest - we suck at it world over. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 That sounds very romantic TB. In our world, though, where does that work anywhere close to flawlessly? Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 I did't say that it works flawlessly anywhere but it shouldn't be accepted. This is something, as MB and yourself has pointed out, that we aren't very good at but the minute society stops protesting these inequalities and just accepts them then the line has been drawn further back and what would be next on the list to concede? What ways did you mean that we get preferential treatment over Japanese? Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 Anyone smelling of BO, should be arrested. Bound to be an II. Link to post Share on other sites
HighlyTrainedNovaTeacher 2 Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 I'm sure I just heard on the tv program that one talent company (record/celeb management company) is starting drugs tests on it's talent employees. That right? Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 She's promising to divorce her wayward naughty husband. Did you see all those people lined up to try and get in the court. Don't they have better things to do in their lives. Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Someone said hubby's got surf/snowboard shop. Has anyone been? Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 I heard she was willing to change her career to be a nurse or something. Bedbaths would be great eh Noriko? Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 Lock her up for the 18months the prosecutors want. Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 How much of that is doing a runner and obstructing justice? Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 18 months as a nurse sounds cool. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 Whats all this about being a nurse? A joke? Link to post Share on other sites
gerard 6 Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 She said she wants to study counceling and help other people who do drugs and stuff. Sounds very noble and all... Link to post Share on other sites
gifugill 0 Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 She has been closely following the 'what to do to try and create a good impression' rulebook hasn't she. Link to post Share on other sites
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