“Secret Protection Law” Passed Diet Breakthrough Not Realized
– Importance of Sensitivity and Biggest Factor to Restrain it –
There is a phrase in the article: “We just
want to protect children.” I feel that
most people do the right thing thanks to this wish.
Secret Protection Law, radioactivity,
electromagnetic waves, vaccination, food additives, genetically-modified food –
from the viewpoint of protection of children, we have to be careful about every
single of them. However, very few people
specifically put their ideas into action.
This is because, I think, they cannot actually be driven by a sense of
crisis. First, since they don’t know the
dangerousness, many people gain information mostly from the advertisement of
media or government’s propaganda. It is
hardly possible that big corporations which make enough money to advertise
provide information unfavorable to their products. So such dangerousness never reaches their
ears. Secondly, ordinary people are of
good character and do not realize that most people give priority to making
money, ignoring a slight possibility to cause damage on the environment or
health. For this reason, they do not
realize that there are scarcely decent commercial products in this world. You cannot know the truth only with
automatically provided information. You
cannot see the truth unless you independently go out and collect information.
I think the underlying cause of such
matters is poor sensitivity. With high
sensitivity, you will naturally realize what is right. For example, when you pick up a tofu made
from genetically-modified soybean, you get tensed up, compared with a tofu
properly made without such ingredient.
It is very important to have such sense of body refusal and we should
not have values that restrain such sensitivity.
The biggest cause is probably education, I think,
Masatoshi
Takeshita
December
7, 2013
English translation of an excerpt from a
Japanese article: Ryusaku Tanaka Journal – December 7, 2013 –
“Secret
Protection Law” Passed Diet
Breakthrough Not Realized
A mother spoke: “I have taken my daughter
to have her imprint the moment to leave a blot in Japanese history.
=December 6 around 11:20 p.m. in front of the
gate of the Diet building Photograph:
Ryusaku Tanaka =
December 6 has become the day when a top of
history has started spinning reversely.
If a peace preservation
bill of Heisei is passed into law, it is enforced within one year. It is at risk of depriving us of public right
to know or right of freedom to expression.
People who got together around the Diet building are filled with a sense
of crisis.
Demonstrators, who stand face to face with
the police, are prevented from moving forward by iron fence and a picket line
of the police. = around 9:15 p.m. Photograph: Rodhi Shimazaki =
Policemen in uniform doubly or triply set
up a picket to prevent demonstrators from moving forward. In front of the gate of the Diet building,
riot police wagons were tightly lined up.
Demonstrators who tried to move forward scuffled with the police for a
while. “Absolute opposition to forcible
passage!” echoed shout.
A man spoke to each of
policemen standing in line. “Do you have
a child?” “We just want to protect children.”
At 11:23 p.m. when there was a report that a “State
Secrets Protection Bill” was passed in the Upper House, Demonstrators in
front of the Diet building howled in rage “WO!”
A mother and her daughter who came from
Nerima ward had tears in their eyes. “I
have thought that politics is for us people.
But politics has abandoned the people,” the daughter spoke, looking
gravely at the Diet building.
“We have completely depended
on democracy and have not taken care of it.
This is the result,” the mother appropriately
said.
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