November 4, 2007

When you just want to scream, but there's nobody to hear you


First, an apology to all of my Japanese friends who will read this. But I am f... pissed off at all I have to put up with here, and not only me, all other foreigners and Japanese as well.

Well, the case is, Gaston picked a bicycle from a pile of garbage at uni, gave it to his friend, who gave it to her friend, and a friend was stopped by the police. It turned out the bicycle was stolen some years ago. A smart friend (well done Santiago) says Gaston was the one who gave him the bicycle and the police calls Gaston. The pull and push starts and Gaston ends up with a charge for a bicycle theft. How nice!!!

First, nobody is f....... interesting who really stole the bicycle. Then, the police conveniently called Gaston to sign the so- called confession on a Sunday, no lawyers, no embassy working. Is this fair???

Then, is this because he is a foreigner?? Are Japanese treated the same.??And what is police doing about all the prostitution in this f....... country, all the freaks walking around and all the Yakuza piling up money. NOTHING. The police is prosecuting a gaijin, with a bicycle he didn't steal but picked up from a pile of junk.

This bicycle ended up being really expensive, all those police officers working to give it back to its owner. How nice. And all the tax payers (including me) paying for those people to work.
I found out that 99% of all the cases in Japanese court end up with a conviction-GUILTY. And that people are forced to sign up their confessions, after which they kill themselves or serve their time innocent.

So much about the democracy, fair trials, and other things we take for granted. Japan successfully polished a picture of itself as a nice country of high technology and clean streets. What do they need clean streets and fast trains for, if there's still middle ages in their minds and they are slaves to all the elders, sempai, men, parents, kacho, shacho, and so on.
I hope Japanese people will find out one day they are prisoners of the rules they made themselves. The rules that make person a cold hearted machine, not a human.
I hope one day there will be a Japanese to lead his/her people out of slavery.

I am f....... mad.

1 comments:

Pixa said...

Moras shvatiti da pravo i pravda nisu sinonimi. Svoj si post napisala sa stajališta pravde i to je posve u redu. Ali pravosudje (pa cak i u Japanu) funkcionira po nacelu prava, tj. svi dokazi i iskazi svjedoka upucuju na to da je Gaston bio prvi koji imao bicikl nakon sto je isti ukraden. Jedino sto bi pomoglo jest da das iskaz na sudu (kao svjedok) da je bicikl nadjen na otpadu.
Razumijem tvoj opravdani gnjev, ali ne valja ici glavom kroz zid. Prije dva tjedna je u Rimu ubijena jedna zena. Ispostavilo se da ju je ubio jedan emigrant iz Rumunjske. To je potaknulo takav medijski linch da su vlasti omogucile protjerivanje svih emigranata ukoliko se pokaze da imaju bilo kakav problem sa zakonom (i Italija i Rumunjska su clanice EU).
Iskreno se nadam da ce sve dobro zavrsiti.
Pozdrav iz Slavonskog Broda

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