The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
No fair play, no nothing.
Why don't the Japanese media report the actual situation in the U.S.?
It was the first question that came to my mind when I visited the United States as a correspondent.
The United States is neither a democratic nor a modern nation to be proud of.
It seemed to me to be a surprisingly barbaric, even immoral, medieval despotism.
I became the Los Angeles correspondent in 1992.
The Rodney King incident, which triggered the L.A. riots, had occurred the year before.
Rodney King, a young black man, was driving down a freeway in a Korean Hyundai 1500-cylinder passenger car on a stimulant commonly called Popeye and was chased by a police car.
King, partly because of the stimulant, swerved away from the 5,000㏄ police car and fled.
The police car was also angry.
Finally, he is caught at Lakeview Terrace but bristles because of Popeye.
He is beaten with a baton and feels no pain.
Four white police officers beat him to a pulp and finally subdued him.
Someone videotaped the incident and broadcast it to the world.
The video was used as "solid evidence of abuse of blacks by whites."
The white police officer was accused of excessive force.
Still, the verdict the following year was not guilty, partly due to King's testimony of excessive insubordination and use of a stimulant.
The blacks, enraged by the verdict, rioted.
It was the so-called Los Angeles Riots.
However, since the rioting and looting were limited to the Korean neighborhoods, where the blacks and Koreans were not on good terms, the police refrained from crackdowns and let the blacks burn down the Korean neighborhoods as much as they wanted.
It was the L.A. Riots, which lasted four days and three nights.
The police finally intervened to quell the riots when the blacks were relieved of their misery, but this was the year of the presidential election between George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
Bush, realizing that he could lose the black vote if things continued as they were, had the white police officers, who had been acquitted under state law, tried under the federal Civil Rights Act.
He conspired to convict the white officer at all costs, and the federal court responded by convicting the white officer.
The principle of the rule of law is that a person cannot be tried twice for the same crime. The U.S. openly violated this principle by convicting the white police officer.
In addition to the appalling measures, the president intervened in the judicial power and forced an improper trial to be held.
It would be understandable in an uncivilized country without separation of powers.
Still, it was a big surprise that it was done so openly in the United States, a democracy under the sun.
However, there were no Japanese newspapers that criticized such undemocratic U.S. actions.
Let me cite another example.
In 1995, Alisa Flato, a 20-year-old New Jersey schoolgirl, was on a sightseeing trip in Israel when a car loaded with explosives plowed into the bus she was riding in, killing her and seven Israeli soldiers.
The suicide bomber was a young Palestinian man belonging to the hard-line Palestinian Hamas group.
In response to this incident, the U.S. Congress passed the "State Sponsor of Terrorism Prosecution Act" (a federal law) in 1997, two years after the incident.
This law allows Americans who are targeted or involved in terrorist acts to file a claim for damages against the state that sponsored the act.
The law, also known as the "Alisa Flatow Law" in honor of the female student who triggered it, stated that it was effective "retroactively prior to the date of its enactment."
In other words, it is the most admirable ex post facto law prohibited by the rule of law.
In 1997, two years after the incident, the Plateau family filed a lawsuit in federal district court against "Iran, which the State Department had designated a state sponsor of terrorism," claiming that Iran was a state sponsor of terrorism that had killed their daughter.
The court issued a subpoena to Iran's U.N. ambassador's office in accordance with the law, regardless of whether it was an ex post facto law or not.
The Iranian side said, "Iran has nothing to do with the case, and there is no evidence. The Iranian side refused to appear in court, saying, "Iran has nothing to do with the case, and there is no evidence. The method of designating Iran as a defendant without permission contradicts the due process that the U.S., a nation ruled by law, insists on.
It was a natural reaction.
However, the district court held a hearing in the absence of the defendants because "the writ of certiorari had been served on the Iranian side according to procedure."
On March 13, 1998, Judge Royce Lamberth ordered Iran to pay $247 million in damages.
This is the reality in the United States.
The judiciary abuses its judicial power at the behest of the legislative and executive branches.
It is still the case today.
To obstruct Trump's election, prosecutors in Democratic-affiliated states have filed as many as 90 lawsuits, including one about a seven-year-old affair with a woman and another about the removal of classified documents, and the courts have acquiesced.
They are genuinely legal bandits.
There is no such thing as fair play.
I once watched a game of the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and whenever the opposing team made a free throw, they were booed furiously.
It is hideous, but the same thing is happening with the Trump attacks.
This article continues.
2024/8/26 in Onomichi, Hiroshima
No fair play, no nothing.
Why don't the Japanese media report the actual situation in the U.S.?
It was the first question that came to my mind when I visited the United States as a correspondent.
The United States is neither a democratic nor a modern nation to be proud of.
It seemed to me to be a surprisingly barbaric, even immoral, medieval despotism.
I became the Los Angeles correspondent in 1992.
The Rodney King incident, which triggered the L.A. riots, had occurred the year before.
Rodney King, a young black man, was driving down a freeway in a Korean Hyundai 1500-cylinder passenger car on a stimulant commonly called Popeye and was chased by a police car.
King, partly because of the stimulant, swerved away from the 5,000㏄ police car and fled.
The police car was also angry.
Finally, he is caught at Lakeview Terrace but bristles because of Popeye.
He is beaten with a baton and feels no pain.
Four white police officers beat him to a pulp and finally subdued him.
Someone videotaped the incident and broadcast it to the world.
The video was used as "solid evidence of abuse of blacks by whites."
The white police officer was accused of excessive force.
Still, the verdict the following year was not guilty, partly due to King's testimony of excessive insubordination and use of a stimulant.
The blacks, enraged by the verdict, rioted.
It was the so-called Los Angeles Riots.
However, since the rioting and looting were limited to the Korean neighborhoods, where the blacks and Koreans were not on good terms, the police refrained from crackdowns and let the blacks burn down the Korean neighborhoods as much as they wanted.
It was the L.A. Riots, which lasted four days and three nights.
The police finally intervened to quell the riots when the blacks were relieved of their misery, but this was the year of the presidential election between George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
Bush, realizing that he could lose the black vote if things continued as they were, had the white police officers, who had been acquitted under state law, tried under the federal Civil Rights Act.
He conspired to convict the white officer at all costs, and the federal court responded by convicting the white officer.
The principle of the rule of law is that a person cannot be tried twice for the same crime. The U.S. openly violated this principle by convicting the white police officer.
In addition to the appalling measures, the president intervened in the judicial power and forced an improper trial to be held.
It would be understandable in an uncivilized country without separation of powers.
Still, it was a big surprise that it was done so openly in the United States, a democracy under the sun.
However, there were no Japanese newspapers that criticized such undemocratic U.S. actions.
Let me cite another example.
In 1995, Alisa Flato, a 20-year-old New Jersey schoolgirl, was on a sightseeing trip in Israel when a car loaded with explosives plowed into the bus she was riding in, killing her and seven Israeli soldiers.
The suicide bomber was a young Palestinian man belonging to the hard-line Palestinian Hamas group.
In response to this incident, the U.S. Congress passed the "State Sponsor of Terrorism Prosecution Act" (a federal law) in 1997, two years after the incident.
This law allows Americans who are targeted or involved in terrorist acts to file a claim for damages against the state that sponsored the act.
The law, also known as the "Alisa Flatow Law" in honor of the female student who triggered it, stated that it was effective "retroactively prior to the date of its enactment."
In other words, it is the most admirable ex post facto law prohibited by the rule of law.
In 1997, two years after the incident, the Plateau family filed a lawsuit in federal district court against "Iran, which the State Department had designated a state sponsor of terrorism," claiming that Iran was a state sponsor of terrorism that had killed their daughter.
The court issued a subpoena to Iran's U.N. ambassador's office in accordance with the law, regardless of whether it was an ex post facto law or not.
The Iranian side said, "Iran has nothing to do with the case, and there is no evidence. The Iranian side refused to appear in court, saying, "Iran has nothing to do with the case, and there is no evidence. The method of designating Iran as a defendant without permission contradicts the due process that the U.S., a nation ruled by law, insists on.
It was a natural reaction.
However, the district court held a hearing in the absence of the defendants because "the writ of certiorari had been served on the Iranian side according to procedure."
On March 13, 1998, Judge Royce Lamberth ordered Iran to pay $247 million in damages.
This is the reality in the United States.
The judiciary abuses its judicial power at the behest of the legislative and executive branches.
It is still the case today.
To obstruct Trump's election, prosecutors in Democratic-affiliated states have filed as many as 90 lawsuits, including one about a seven-year-old affair with a woman and another about the removal of classified documents, and the courts have acquiesced.
They are genuinely legal bandits.
There is no such thing as fair play.
I once watched a game of the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and whenever the opposing team made a free throw, they were booed furiously.
It is hideous, but the same thing is happening with the Trump attacks.
This article continues.
2024/8/26 in Onomichi, Hiroshima
