U.S. military brats suspected in case of biker nearly killed by a rope

Sorry but your answer is not informative.
How often does such cases as you described happens in Okinawa?

Well, it is not common the Japanese women accuse the Japanese men, for that matter, foreign men in Japan, of rape as revenge for a bad breakup/whatever.

I wonder what’s happening to the Japanese women in Okinawa who date with the Marines.

Ah, my previous comment was not reply to ponta. His comment stacked onto a spam filter for a while?

No I said he sounded like a troll trying to get attention…
Generally that means I think he is saying things designed to provoke a response from people.
Anyway, just my opinion.

pixel_bomber,

Ah, sorry, I was confused on how to interpret “this” as I was preparing for a fight with you in another thread.

Yea, you lack knowledge, ability to gather information, common sense, discernment, and various other thing, at least regarding this particular case, as you have proved by yourself. What you should first admit is that you are talking solely based on your mere imagination and assumption which is sometimes, to speak frankly, ridiculous. Do you want to start your Japanese media silliness theory here again? Isn’t it your true purpose?

pixel_bomber,

Are you still watching here? I was a bit confused after I saw your reply to Jonsan made at 2009-11-24 19:35:42. Sorry for my harsh comments.

I enumerate some points here:

1. It is very unusual to make images of an underage person (a minor) who are possibly involved in a crime, not as a victim, publically available without permission of him/her parents. Actually, it is not usual even when permission is granted. The police withholds the name of suspects and criminals if they were an underage person when they committed a crime. There are some dispute over this issue but this is the current situation of Japan which is a common sense or a basic knowledge regarding the crimes commited by underage persons.

2. You can gather information about SOFA, an agreement made between the U.S. and Japan on 1960, on the internet. It puts restriction on the ability of the Japanese police to investigate crimes and even to question suspects. These restrictions are said to make it difficult to tackle a problem like rape which usually requires an allegation by victims and often enforces hardness to them. I think, a family of military service persons is not an actual subject of SOFA but limitation on investigation within the base perhaps still holds. This fact can be an important part to discern what would happen when suspects are found to be living in a military base.

The above points are well known to Japanese people, at least, who have some interest in social problems. There are, I think, no obvious fault in efforts the Japanese media and police made for this incident.

So, you had been talking with assumption that suspects had not yet been captured or even not identified? If so, it was very confusing to me. The only way to understand the sentence “Why not just show the actual video in the clip?” was, to me, to assume that you suggested making the actual video open to the public for some reason, since I knew there were already no need to show the actual video to anyone other than, e.g., judges and attorneys. And I also suspected you had something to say regarding the racial issue. There were my serious misconception and wrong assumption too. I am sorry for my harsh comments.

Such a follower! Sad to think that someone who took an oath to defend their country’s freedoms doesn’t understand what they actually mean.

The scandalization in your tone is hilarious — like a woman in hysterics over the audacity of her neighbor’s choice of wardrobe.

You are easy to lead. The Marines must miss you.

@drw: Apparently he does not. Nor, equally apparently, does he recognize that with freedom comes responsibility. All he recognizes is his freedom to make irresponsible comments, his freedom to belittle anyone who disagrees with him, his freedom to be a complete and unmitigated ass. And he is diligent in exercising his freedoms. But he won’t take responsibility for being wrong, he won’t take responsibility for his words.

If he is indeed in the Air Force, I sincerely hope he is a junior troop relegated to latrine detail. For he should never, ever be put in a position of responsibility, should never be in charge of troops, and should never hold other’s lives in his hands. He clearly lacks the honor, dignity, self-control and integrity required to be in charge of anything more dangerous or complicated than a mop.