-----Original Message----- From: radcaucus at googlegroups.com [mailto:radcaucus at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Yoshie Furuhashi Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 8:36 PM To: radcaucus at googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [radcaucus] Please
Prime Minister Naoto Kan of Japan, it is being reported in Japan now, has said that, in the worst case scenario, "we must consider the possibility that eastern Japan will be ruined" (at <http://news.tbs.co.jp/newseye/tbs_newseye4675824.html> and <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJmzuuKVdds>). _At last_ he told the inconvenient truth. Too late. All who have been saying that Fukushima won't be like Chernobyl have been aiding and abetting, knowingly or unknowingly, the Japanese government in denying, lying,* and nuking its own people and foreign nationals from all over the world who are still left behind in the danger zone. Aiding and abetting such an attempt at a crime against humanity is not a good thing. A leftist should refrain from it.
The point is that any humane evacuation plan should have been based on _the distinct possibility of the worst case scenario, from Day 1, whether or not it will come true_. Those who said that wasn't necessary were committing a crime of exposing people to great risk, the risk to which they do not -- nor would they ever willingly -- subject themselves.
* Why do I say "lie"? The prime minister, a third-way student activist in the sixties, graduated from a degree in applied physics from Tokyo Tech before going on to become a patent attorney. He can't claim ignorance.
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Gregory Meyerson
<gmeyerson at triad.rr.com> wrote:
> please: I did not send that damn beddington (I don't even know who the
guy
> is) to be insensitive--much less to push some agenda about these mark one
> nuclear plants, which may be connected in all sorts of ways to corporate
> corruption.
>
> it was on the guardian website and I thought it might be true. so I sent
> it like I sent many things. The guardian was one of the sites that had
many
> updates.
>
> Right now, the situation is so chaotic and contradictory that I don't know
> what information is trustworthy. so: the best thing to do is to send
> nothing. There are totally opposed messages coming out: power is about
to
> be hooked up; radiation levels are decreasing side by side with the spent
> fuel pools (which I have been constantly worried about) are dry and people
> need to move further away. Claims of overreaction and underreaction side
by
> side.
>
>
> This chaos and contradiction produces panic and if I were in Japan, I
would
> be in a panic. I do not intend to minimize or maximize anything.
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 16, 2011, at 8:40 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>> Yoshie: "You obviously don't have any family or relatives or friends,
>> Japanese or foreign nationals, pleading for help in Japan and not getting
>> it
>> in time because of the view promoted by the Beddingtons of Japan and the
>> world:"
>>
>> The distinction is important to recognize. I know only two people in
>> Japan,
>> Yoshie's parents whom I met once briefly, but that has been enough to
>> sharpen my attention to news of what is happening. (And because the state
>> of
>> my eyes makes reading very slow and cumbersome, I seldom pay much
>> attention
>> to current events.) Others on the list should allow for this.
>>
>> Carrol
>>
>>
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