3/28 "U.S. Airman Gets 32 Months for Okinawa Rape"
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&u=/nm/20020328/ts_nm/japan_usa_trial_dc
What the hell? Only 32 months for rape? What kind of justice is that?
And the defense still considers filing an appeal? --- American guy
\_ Duh, there's *always* an appeal to *every* case in both civil and
criminal court. How ignorant can you be? And you weren't there so
you've got no idea what went down in court. Maybe 32 months was
an outrageous sentence given the facts of the case which we don't
have here on the motd.
\_ Supposed average for rape in Japan in 3-5 years.
\_ It sounds like he met a hooker in a bar and didn't pay her enough
so she cried rape. The real injustice is that this was ever taken
seriously enough to go to trial.
\_ He was raping for his country.
\_ Ah! That's where our tax dollars go ;-)
\_ The justice department in Okinawa was under heavy US pressure.
Remind you that Okinawa was an independent nation which has
thousands years of history before Japan absorb it in 1845.
After WW2, US want to form a blocade toward Russia and Communist
China, thus, allow Japan to keep what was then Ryukyu (which
was traditionally Chinese friendly).
Japanese, for most part, still don't really care about people
in Okinawans, treat them as some sort of colonial subject. This
is one of the reason why Japan allow bulk of US troops in Okinawa
instead of Japanese mainland; and Japanese certainlly won't piss
off US for these colonial subjects.
Poor Okiwanans, victim fo two imperial powers.
If US was protecting its subject when its subject was
raping 12 years old back in 1995, it will certainly protect its
subject when the crime is much less severe, like this one.
\_ She was asking for it. |