The Japanese held another protest against the upcoming arrival of the USS George Washington (CVN 73) today. I wasn’t there, but they’re all the same. The gather by the local mall, then march down to the main gate. Unfortunately for them, the main gate is closed to all auto and pedestrian traffic, so no one actually sees or hears anything. Awesome accomplishment.
Regular reader i*heart*rice was kind enough to take some photos of the protest and send them in:
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Wow another protest with a hundred or so raising signs and banners and being completly quiet as they do it. You would figure after all the crap the shitty kitty has done they would be more than willing to give another one a chance. Hell the g-dub can’t fuck that place up any more than the hawk already has. And if there worried about nuclear stuff it’s not like they should worry about radiation poisoning, they’ve had plent of it already, they should be used to it by now.
Posted 19 Jul 2008 at 10:07 am ¶That radiation comment was really uncalled for. That was in extremely poor taste. I think that’s possibly the most inflammatory comment I’ve seen all year.
The reason why they were protesting was because they believe the nuclear reactor is unsafe, and they base that on the fact that the fire did such extensive damage to a brand new ship. I’m not saying that what they are protesting is proper or even correct, based in fact or fiction, but I can say that instead of becoming the open sore of disgusting and revolting comments, you should really think before you put something like this out there as representative of your thinking. Go the Hiroshima Peace Museum or visit someone that has developed cancer from that goddamned bomb that you are bragging about. I’ll get you’ll shut the fuck up with those horrible comments about radiation poisoning. What a callous and disturbing thing to say.
Posted 20 Jul 2008 at 1:57 am ¶Since I can’t go back and edit, I have to reference my typographical error:
I meant to say I’ll BET.
And I can only hope that karma gives you a swift kick in the testicles. What a shitbag thing to say. I’m still disgusted by it. I wish you knew what radiation poisoning looked like, felt like…I’d give anything for you to feel it just for five minutes, feel what it’s like to melt, to vaporize, for your skin to just fall away like it’s a fluid…blood dripping from your eyes. Goddamn you make me sick.
Posted 20 Jul 2008 at 2:36 am ¶In other news……
Posted 20 Jul 2008 at 6:10 am ¶Reading your statement made my stomach tie in a knot. I think you could have stated your position without being crude.
I’m assuming you’re fairly young with very little life experience, and you typed without really thinking it through. That is my hope, anyway.
My father dedicated his entire life to his US military career, fighting in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. He married my mother who is from Hiroshima, a survivor of the Atomic Bomb.
Not once did my father take pride in anyone’s suffering, even though he saw so many of his American brothers die. Not once did he make light of the the A-bomb atrocity which still affects my mother’s health to this day in her old age. I’m thankful she’s still alive, but her life has been filled with many illnesses and it has not been easy on her or my family. (I can go into gory details, but I won’t.)
I urge you to make your way to Hiroshima to the Peace Memorial Museum. The Japanese never deny they started the war, and that point is repeated throughout the Peace Memorial Museum tour. Now their focus is Peace and for nuclear disarmament around the world.
As far as the GW protestors go, it’s their right. It’s what living in a free socitey is all about. They’re not rioting or harming anyone, they’re just making their statement peacefully. I hope you can understand how sensitive they might be to anything with the word “nuclear” in it, and as I*heart*rice mentioned… it was a living nightmare.
Anyway, my intent was not to attack you CAPT. Zack Sparrow, but to perhaps increase your level of sensitivity on this issuse, human being to human being.
Posted 20 Jul 2008 at 7:14 pm ¶Do they understand what the nuclear power is used for in our ships? I’m just wanting to know if they’re at least understanding what it’s used for. Not trying to say the japanese are stupid, I’m just curious since I wouldn’t know how to ask my question….
Posted 21 Jul 2008 at 3:50 am ¶..and then try to find the alledged Pearl Habor Victory Museum which is also, supposedly, in Hiroshima. Let’s see how you feel about your point after that.
I find it rather two-faced (or is that one-sided?) of the locals to protest one of our nuclear powered ships (all of which have flawless operational records with regards to reactor safety, might I add), when their own nuclear power plants have had several radiation and steam leaks within the past two years, one of which was right around this time last year!
Posted 21 Jul 2008 at 4:57 am ¶You can bet that the majority of the people involved with these organized protests are the same people who get out and protest the US military being in Japan at all.
I don’t feel these small groups are representative of the overall Japanese opinion.
When I asked some elderly Japanese people what they thought about the GW coming, most of them took a negative opinion based solely on the worry that a catastrophic accident could happen. To you, or anyone else it seems illogical but that’s where the sensitivity to history kicks in.
I’m sure many people understand what the nuclear power is used for. However, it is not nuclear power the Japanese are generating or are in control of, and I feel that’s where their worries and insecurities lie. I can’t speak for the whole population of Japan, but the small group of old folks I spoke with feel that way.
The US Navy has done what they can to inform the public, but it’s not going to prevent a small segment of Japanese society from not wanting us or our nuclear carrier here.
Posted 21 Jul 2008 at 5:38 am ¶..and then try to find the alledged Pearl Habor Victory Museum which is also, supposedly, in Hiroshima. Let’s see how you feel about your point after that.
How can you speak about something you’ve never seen? You’ve never seen it, because it doesn’t exist. It’s an urban legend perpetuated by ignorant people on the internet.
Funny, my uncle came all the way from Hiroshima so he could go to Mikasa museum because he had never seen such a thing before.
Nice try.
Posted 21 Jul 2008 at 5:47 am ¶This situation is one that cannot be debated reasonably in this type of forum. Nor should it, none of us were there so lets keep the insensitive no, ignorant comments to a minimum. That being said as Americans we can’t even begin to fathom the depth of what the Japanese went through after we nuked them. And visa versa when they bombed Pearl. It is said that war affects the sons of 4 generations. My grandfather who was involved in the island hopping campaign of the Pacific hated the Japanese with a passion until the day he died. Some people on both sides of the war have an inability to forgive because it’s still being fought in their memories. How haunting must it have been to be 19 and your job was to use a flamethrower to burn people out of caves because dying was preferred to surrender. Likewise how horrible it must have been to, in the blink of an eye witness thousands of people vaporized or even live with the after effects of radiation.
The Japanese are allowed to protest. I live in DC and don’t like the protesters around here but you have to deal with it. Just think…What if we weren’t allowed to protest? The majority of people on this earth can’t. Don’t take it for granted!
This goes much deeper than an Aircraft Carrier powered by a “hot” rock, it’s not that simple. As Americans we are still affected by our own Civil War and that was from 1861-65. I predict that it will take somewhere around 175 years until World War 2 fades from memory.
Being that we are in the military don’t forget the big picture. Japan is a foreword deployed base of operations for the US. Strategically, Japan is priceless for us. You may not realize it but just by you guys serving there, you are without a doubt securing the long term safety of the US. Don’t forget, there are a lot of bad guys out there. You don’t always have to fight them to deter them.
Posted 21 Jul 2008 at 10:29 am ¶No one said anything about Pearl Harbor. That’s not the point. You can’t sit there and compare two wrongs and expect that to make a right.
Posted 21 Jul 2008 at 3:17 pm ¶Whether they like it or not, the GW will come here. They can protest all they want, but they’re going to get used to it and eventually it wont be a problem and get used to the idea of a nuclear powered carrier. They are just ignorant on what nuclear power is all about, and when they see there is nothing to worry about, they wont care anymore.
As far as the first comment on this post goes, I know that individual known as Zach and I believe that at one point he did go to Kure, which is not far from Hiroshima. With an attitude like his, more than likely he did not go Hiroshima, but I wasn’t on the ship yet. I did visit Peace Park, the A-Bomb Dome and the Peace Museum, but Zach had already checked off, but I have never felt so terrible for what had happened. I wish I was around to aid those who were caught in the blast, but then again, my Father was not even born yet. None the less, it did happen and making fun of those who suffered in the blast is an unforgivable.
Zach, you are seriously the most fucked up person I have ever met. Thank God you are not at this command anymore.
Posted 22 Jul 2008 at 2:58 am ¶Just so everyone knows I do know that the comment I made was in a way, crude. It was not intended to make a mockery of what happened. Yes I know it was bad event and I do, belive it or not, understand this. I have been to Hyroshima and Nagasaki and been to the peace memorials there and paid my respects. I have been to the island the bombs flew off of and to the location in New Mexico wher they were made. I have seen the effects of radiation poisoning in living and dead tissue. The last comment was made as a light hearted off color joke. Some of the punch is lost without a tone of voice behind and i tend to forget that but I wasn’t serious about it in that way. It was more of a kinda get over it style thing. It may have been a bad event but that was in an entirly different time in sense of who we were as individual countries and train of thought. We have since moved beyond that as whole human beings here. Every comment i may make like that isn’t meant to be ignorant or disrespectfull as a whole but more of a different twist in views. I loved Japan and enjoyed being there even though i do make fun of cultural differences but I do it equaly across the board every where i have been including the states. What I was trying to imply was a (and people are going to get pissed off about this one) get over it attitude. Every country has some history changing event happen and latches on to the bad effects of it. There was unjust bias against those of middle eastern decent here in the states after 9/11 because of the acts of a very select few. And there the actions of those during most of our great grandparents or grandparents times are affecting the transition there. All I was trying to imply, although threw crudeness I’ll give it that, was lets all get get past the parts of the past that unfarely alter our judgments and see things on both sides. I did however mean that nothing can be worse than the hawk, that thing is a curse from hell for everybody.
Posted 22 Jul 2008 at 3:45 pm ¶Dude,
Posted 26 Jul 2008 at 12:43 pm ¶Never mind your comments, just fix your spelling.- it sucks!
Yes I know my spelling and grammar syntax royaly blow, I do sincerly appologize (probaly spelled that wrong too) for that. Spell checker should probably be my best friend at this moment.
Posted 30 Jul 2008 at 5:57 pm ¶A Capn Zack!
I’m a piggin up what your puttin’ down brotha. But yeah, your crap was rude as hell. It reminds of the Marine General (?) who said the jarheads who raped that girl in OKI should have spent the rental van money on a hooker… My Q 2 You is about CV 63… WTF happened? I was on the Indy and we were gentlemen (cough cough) but I haven’t heard any dirt Re the Kitty. So, OK… what did they do…
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