From: s8923098@macnab.mqcs.mq.oz.au (Josef WIDJAJA)
Subject: Re: An open letter to Emperor Akihito of Japan
Organization: Macquarie University, School of Mathematics, Physics, Computing and Electronics
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 06:11:50 GMT

In article <1992Aug24.210800.3542@leland.Stanford.EDU> underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:

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|But it is hypocritical for the Chinese-cu twits to be demanding an apology
|from either the Japanese people in general or the post-1945 Japanese gov't,
|the original gov't having been dismantled by American forces.

The emperor wasn't dismantled by the Yanks. Bloody Hell! Have we heard
Hirohito apologising for what the Japanese had done in WWII?. Contrast
that with the Germans who had sincerely apologised for what they did.

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|There _are_ those who think that as long as the Chinese-cu twits
|are demanding an apology from the current Japanese gov't, which had
|no responsibility for the war, than those Chinese-cu twits should
|also demand an apology from the Chinese-cu gov'ts--all three of them--
|for the atrocities committed against people, not just Chinese-ge,
|including the Taiwanese-ge and Tibetans massacred.  Since the apology
|exacted by the Chinese-cu twits is one involving an apology by the
|gov't of Japan for actions by individual people, than the Chinese-cu
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Rape of Nanking, concentration camp in West Borneo and recruitment
of comfort women were 'actions by individual people'. WHAT A LOAD 
OF BULLSHIT! Those 'Chinese thugs' you mentioned in your previous
postings may well be individual actions, but not the act of genocide 
commited by the Japanese Imperial Army in West Borneo. This is an
insult to anyone's intelligence. While you are at it, why don't
you say that the bombing of Pearl Harbour was also 'actions by
individual people' who happen to fly their planes all at the same
time. The fact that you have access to USENET suggests to me that
you at least have some intelligence and logic; I have to reconsider
my view now. Come with me to West Borneo Mr. Joe, and explain to
me how rounding up of Chinese in army trucks, prison camp and mass
graves were 'actions by individual people'. The place where thousands
of Chinese lost their heads is still there, the unfilled mass graves
have now been filled with rainwater, and not a single memorial has
been built. One Japanese veteran was so overcome with guilt that
he made a personal trip to that place where he chopped off the heads
of some Chinese and prayed there. Japan as a nation still has not
said a single word of contrition. The Koreans have only recently
heard Japan's apologies and it was made not by Hirohito, but by his
son Akihito.

It does sound like what Neo-Nazis have been saying about the Jews
who died during the Holocaust. It was 'actions by individual people'
they said, Hitler did not have any plan to exterminate the Jews and
anyway, only a few Jews died because of 'actions by individual people'.

What I found most disturbing is when you said in your previous posting
that the Japanese should not apologise because the Chinese have not
apologised for what the 'Chinese thugs' have done to the Chinese.
If one subscribes to your theory then Akihito really shouldn't apo-
logise to the Koreans because the Koreans have not apologised for
what the Korean thugs and muggers have done to the Korean people. 
Dwight 'Actions by individual people' Joe, you are comparing a crime
against humanity (genocide ie against the whole race) with a crime 
against individual. As days go by, your true Neo-Nazi self you so
desperately trying to hide start to reveal itself. 

Shame on you, Dwight 'Actions By Individual People' Joe.


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