Posted on 07/05/2018 5:21:03 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
The leader of Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult which carried out a deadly nerve gas attack on the Tokyo underground in 1995 has been executed, Japanese media report.
The sarin attack, Japan's worst terror incident, killed 13 people and injured thousands more.
Seven other Aum Shinrikyo members are also awaiting execution.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
My first thought as well.
Actually, it means “morning field”...
But, I get your drift ;^)
Oh yes... it does (by hanging)..
But, usually, it takes years/decades before it is carried out. They make the criminals wait it out, day by day, before they wake them up and send them to the gallows (the criminal never knows WHEN they will hang).
I remember a photo back during the time this outfit was active purporting to show Asahara levitating in a sitting position with his legs crossed.
More in the mold of Mohammed than that of Buddha or Christ.
Hanging. Man, I would have thought the ole samurai sword to the neck. Or let him gut himself.
I watched a documentary about death row in Japan. As one lady who was on death row put it, “you don’t know if the next knock will be your meal or if the time has come”.
During Shogun days, he wouldn’t have made it past sundown.
Bravo. I like that they just string ‘em up - no need to get fancy, no special drugs or anything. Ropes are cheap and effective. I also like that they don’t tell them when the big day is so they must live with the stress of not knowing every single day until the day comes.
Something north of 10,000 people had to go the the hospital and maybe 7 people died.
Sarin was suspended in water inside of plastic bags; they placed the bags on the train car floor, then used umbrella tips to pierce the bags, promptly exiting.
They selected the subway system since it’s a confined airspace; dispersion would be minimized.
They were most angry at the Japanese bureaucracy so as the focus of their attack they chose KasumiGaSeki station (which services the area in Tokyo for most of the elite bureacracies) during the peak of the morning commute.
They were many other aspects of the cult that are less well known;
They had bought a huge Russian helicopter and planned to later spray ALL of Tokyo with nerve agents, they had also bought a Soviet Golf class submarine.
LOTS AND LOTS of insance stuff, too.
Their primary recruiting success had some in the former Soviet Union, they even recruited several people in a secretive weapons lab.
Some people believe they MIGHT have exploded a primitive nuke in a highly remote part of Australia.
I think Japan is like Korea, they also take away your identity as a human being. You are only addressed by your prison number on your uniform.
One of the English papers had a story about the Japanese system of execution. The condemned is taken from his cell, allowed to pray at a statue of a goddess and led into the execution chamber. The chamber itself is an austere Japanese-style room with a trap door. You can see pictures of it here:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/death-penalty-execution-japan-hanging—10797256
I selected THIS photo since it showed the scale:
Their cammo scheme was totally different and I'm not sure if they got it operational.
I remember the aerial shots that were famous when details of the attack first hit the media.
They were going to rig up sprayers and help usher in armageddon.
I didn’t know Japan had the death penalty.
My first thought as well.
Yes, that is more of the nonsense that the progressives teach you, that no “civilized” country has the death penalty. Japan does. Korea does.
Correct, and life in prison is HIGHLY regimented.
The general attitude is that your errors developed as a result of some type of separation from THE GROUP; Alone is BAD, The Group is GOOD.
So your badness has to be washed out of you by you being submerged in The Proper Way, in The Group. 24 hours a day..? Why, yes.
When you go from building to building (marching in a column in a group? YES) it used to be a rule that upon each stride (of a set distance) you had to swing your arm up so that the whole arm is parallel to the ground:
That was liberalized some years ago and now the arm need be swung up to the 60 degree point.
The prison rulebook governs a BLIZZARD of daily behaviors.
Anyone going through USMC Boot or has been a member of a highly regimented dojo miiiiight know something close to the degree of regimentation I'm talking about, but they would still fall short of the mark.
They do things in Engrish if you're not Japanese, right..? Cuz Japanese is used only in Japan, right..?
Nope.
You're going to be totally fruent in Japaneezu and when you get out (if ever) you're going to be bowing and scraping and walking on eggshells and giggling and aporigizing if someone slams into you and is rude to you.
They will make Capitain Von Trapp (from The Sound of Music) seem like a pussified Rostafarian.
SURPRISED! I thought the Japanese would move quicker than this. This idiot was responsible for many injured and maimed.
13 killed and 6,000 injured...
Thanks! I watched the documentary a number of years ago and the prison would not let the execution chamber be shown. I don’t recall where the prison was located though. If I remember correctly the cells where the inmates where being held were even more bleak than the ones in the article.
That's nothing. I can do the same thing after eating a bean and cheese taco.
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