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Edwynn -> RE: Kudos to Japan (3/19/2011 2:41:27 PM)
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ORIGINAL: ChiDS
Hmmm, I don't know about all this. Japan could have evacuated WAY more ppl. But instead of giving people a week to calmly collect their things and attempt to find safe ground. They waged a disinformation campaign against their own people and had everyone stay wherever they were at and wait it out. Cuz according to them everything was under control until, magically, it wasn't. My point being the Japanese gov. deserves no applaud. For their situation would not have been so severe, had they just giving their people the real information on what was going on. Now everyone's fucked.
I normally don't support the US, EU, or China. But if your right and they are exceptionally worried about reliable information, after this whole operation of lies by Japan. How can you blame them? I certainly don't. Japan's own gov. got them into this mess. Having pre-existing history of unsatisfactory reporting from that very source for years now, not moving the pools above the reactors to seperate sites like just about everyone else in the world, and now falsely reporting on the situation and preventing their people from even having a chance at escape. No, kudos are not in order here. Not in my opinion.
It was a comparative exercise, and I had no delusion that the point would be missed in the process.
China's centuries long imposition upon others, the UK's centuries long imposition upon others, the US imposition at present, et al. Then there's France, Spain, Portugal, whatever.
How much "good information" are our beloved media and US and Brit disinformation schemes presented by the corporate media (so often presented as "analysis," what a joke) to us as to how Tibet is doing? how the citizens of Iraq are doing? etc.
The same media that "swallowed" in most inglorious fashion, that Iraq had some few weapons of mass destruction left, even after all the known cans that the US, UK, France, China, and everybody else sold to them had been removed, told us that Iraq was yet dangerous, weapons removal and 8-10 yr, "no fly zone" notwithstanding?
OK so Japan did bad, by all accounts of these same people.
Sorry if don't swallow as easily as yourself.
As you have noticed, the officials in charge recognized the danger of panic response potential in this situation. This could have caused significantly more deaths had it been handled otherwise.
All I was pointing out was that the Japanese government took this seriously from the first moment, as witnessed by the "at the scene" response, military helicopter fire hoses and all, and unlike forum posters or inherently belligerent "foreign policy" departments of UK or US or China, they had their own people to think about, and I congratulate them for that. Information can be dangerous, and those imperfect government officials in that department had to deal with the best interests of their own citizens first, such citizens having the modern day panic-enhancing capability of modern day media and internet.
Do you know as a fact that the evacuation of huge numbers of people could have been handled better than it was? having to conjure such momentous decisions under such dire circumstances? I'm sure that such panic-less scheme as you apparently have envisioned would be welcomed by a good many.
Peanut gallery 20/20, easy as pie.
Understanding of history, one's own country especially (strong hint here to brits and aussies), the sociological issues involved in all this, the pressure under which all events are playing out here, and my own understanding of what freaking dimwits the US, the UK, China, and most especially the worldwide dimwit media are is what provoked the first post in this thread.
I applaud your reading of things, but there is much further to go, for all of us, as long as you understand that some few others have trod upon some territory in the same neighborhood at some time previously.
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