Here is some background on the mayor of DETRIOT from 2002-2008.  Interesting to read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Kilpatrick

I will be posting later this evening but here are some facts for you to ponder.
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/26/2622000.html

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe  Approaching a Political Fukushima: Turning a Pacifist Nation into a Military State!!

 

Admittedly,   Japan is in a state of geopolitical and financial tension.

  Japan has to deal with China’s aggressive policy toward the two islands in dispute as well as a nuclear North Korea.

  Also, there is MUCH PRESSURE on Mr Abe who has to initiate structural financial reforms in order to attract foreign investors.

So why am I writing this blog?
 

In a recent WSJ article  (July/18/2013),   Abe’s top military advisor,  Mr Marahisa Sato,  was quoted as follows in a recent speech:

  Mr Sato read a letter from a WWII Kamikazi pilot to his young daughter,  Sato reaffirmed the following WWII Japanese Military Sentiments that brought Japan to an ignominious unconditional surrender on board the American destroyer “Missouri”:

“Don’t see yourself as a fatherless child.  I will always be looking out for your safety.”

Then Sato added his own words of military encouragement:
"We have people we want to protect.  We must have the resolve to hand this nation to the next generation."

In a Casablanca-like-parody,   I ask the Bogart question of Mr Sato:  Of all the quotes,  in all the world that you could have used,  is this the most appropriate one to use now,  in a new 21^st century generation of peace-loving Japanese youth?  

 

Mr Sato,   in case your memory is faulted or failing,  I can play for you  the litanies of atrocities that Japan committed against China;  the Phillipines;  Vietnam;  Indonesia; Burma and US,  British, Dutch, Russian prisoners of war et al.

  Mr Sato,  I think you are smart enough to get my point.

Please retract your statement!   It neither serves the interest of your people nor expresses the sentiments of a New Japan that is arising as a major player in the world stage.

 

It would be easy for me to describe in detail the atrocities conducted by Unit 731 under the DIRECT ORDERS of EMPEROR HIROHITO but I will not.

  You can read about those biological warfare atrocities in my thirty year old novel called,  Blood Heat.

  It is time that you built up Japan’s Self Defense Force.

  But there is a Warning of Caution.

  If nationalism is couched in the language of ‘military aggression’ or any other form connoting past excesses committed before and during WWII,  you will be held accountable by many of us, who had lost family during the Japanese incursion into “Manchukuo”;  the “Rape of Nanjing”; and the “occupation of Shanghai”.

I do not ask for an apology or even contriteness on your part or any other senior Japanese official.   But I do demand the courtesy that any senior state official would grant citizens of another nation who had lost family members before and during the awful WWII,  initiated by Japan.

Many Americans are becoming aware of the atrocities that the Japanese soldiers wantonly committed against American POWs as well as other allied nations.

  Your quote heralds an attitude that can quickly calcify into outright militarism.

  I would remind you of your great literary figure,  YUKIO MISHIMA.

As you know better than I Mr. Sato,  Mishima’s literary works, like “The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion”, “Runaway Horses” and other books, demonstrate the brilliance of a post WWII Japanese novelist who was affected by the “Carpet Bombing” of Japan by General Curtis LeMay and Bob McNamara [who admitted in the excellent documentary film, “FOG OF WAR” that both he and Lemay were ‘war criminals’].

But like present day Japan,  Mishima turned his literary endeavors into ‘developing himself physically’.   In that ‘narcissistic pursuit’,  he became so imbued with the notion of a resurgence of Japan as a military power with the Emperor presiding over the New Japanese Empire post WWII that he committed Seppuku— self-disembowelment with a knife.

Mishima’s legacy is well portrayed in the excellent 1985 film by Paul Schrader called, “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters” that it was banned by your right wing militaristic faction of the political body because the film portrayed Mishima as a ‘self-avowed homosexual’.

 

Well,  Mr Sato,  the issue is clearly not Seppuku nor Mishima’s talents and questionable homosexuality….. the issue is more simple….

HISTORY!!!!
If you begin with militarism,  you will end with militarism.

  And although,   the USA and it’s allies are presently engaged in war game maneuvers with your country- never doubt for a moment that our American memories are long and forgiveness is limited and our will to war has been tested more than we wish.

  But if history will repeat itself,  as Santayana opines,  then as an American writer and ex-senior military/civilian government official,   I urge you to take heed and practice the famous restrain that the Japanese are so well known for.

 As we say in English, the ON  –burden—is on you,  Mr Sato. 

 We Americans await your response,

Domo Arigato!!
 Thank you. !!!

And DOZO [ please] forgive my American impertinence!!!

Hai!!

  Yes!!!

posting soon, here is some homework from yesterday's WSJ
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324867904578592824100470576.html?mod=ITP_pageone_0

George Zimmerman Found Not Guilty! 

The American Jury Spoke and Justice has been served!!
So let’s call an end to any ‘inflammatory rhetoric’ from Al Sharpton and any other Agent Provocateurs [AP]!

In case any one out there does not know what an ‘agent provacatuers’ are then think of a person who acts as a ‘demagogue’ spouting rhetoric that inflames the public on whatever issue that may be considered ‘inflammatory’.

 

Al Sharpton made his AP ‘bones’ with “Twana Brawley Case”.   I don’t want to spend any time on discussing that 1987 inflammatory case.   Suffice it to say that Sharpton has a proclivity to stir up emotions for whatever reasons,  actual or manufactured.

  As far as I am concerned,  the defense for George Zimmerman made a clear,  articulate argument for his verdict of non-guilty.

  Of course,  the media was engrossed in covering the case because they were looking for angles that fueled their mandate to entertain/get ratings- anything  dramatic and /or salacious.

  Unfortunately,  for the media,  there really were none and the defense played them like patsies.   As usual,  the Florida prosecutors were inept as witnessed by the mishandling of the Casey Anthony trial.

 

It’s not unusual for Florida to produce inept prosecutors.   They usually are bright,  eager,  inexperienced trial lawyers who want to get their respective bona fides by becoming a prosecutor for the state,  learn the ropes and soak up the names and personalities of the Florida judicial system,  and then like all good lawyers,  go into private practice to earn a handsome sum of money.

  Capitalism 101.

 

As for the merit of the case,  there really was no case.   “Stand Your Ground” is the basic law of Florida.   Very simple.

  If you are duly licensed and you feel that your life is in threat from anyone,   you have the ‘right to stand your ground’ and ‘defend yourself’—be  you  white,  black, or Hispanic as Zimmeran was and never really stated that fact purposefully.

  During one year of the Zimmerman trial,  over SEVEN THOUSAND BLACK PEOPLE WERE KILLED BY BLACKS.

NO ONE IN THE MEDIA,  WHITE HOUSE,  OR DEPT OF JUSTICE SAID ONE WORD!!!!!!

 

Now what can we make of that fact?
  To me that is sheer racism on the part of the administration,  the media and Al Sharpton –the most bigoted racist I have ever heard—white or black.

I can say outright that I feel our President,  Eric Holder and Al Sharpton are Black Racists who have a problem existing in a white/Hispanic/mixed society.

  Why do I say that?
  First,  as most of you know,  I grew up in Harlem on 108^th Amsterdam Avenue and went to Booker Washington Jr HS.

  I learned black racism and anti-semitism from the black ‘hoodies’.

  Before I could really speak English [my lingua franca were Spanish and French],   I learned from the blacks in the ‘hood’ the following words and subsequent identities:
--“Honkie” –white.

--“Dough boy”—white.

--”Kike”—jew.

-- “Mother Fucker”- MF

--“Cock Sucker”—CS

--“Spic”

You get the idea.   The famous porno writer of the 1940s and 1950s,  Henry Miller,  had nothing on the ‘black hoodies’.   They were the exemplars of English illiteracy and slang.

  Needless to say,  when I repeated those back to them,  I got the ‘shit’ beaten out of me.   So I learned how to fight back with bricks, sticks, and pipes.   I learned how to use a ‘zip gun’ – a precursor to the more advanced AK47 that the gangs in the hood use now.

  Did I become a ‘racist”? YOU BETCHA!!!
  That’s the natural reaction when you are frightened,  vulnerable and there is no one around to protect you [especially your immigrant parents and liberal frightened Jewish friends].

In the hood,  I learned the strategies that would eventually make me an effective in my later career as ‘regime changer’ and ‘counter-terrorism expert’.

  I learned the strategy of ‘divide and conquer’.   I learned how to ‘take out the largest guy in the group’  through intimidation,  fear and outright confrontation. 

 

When the vulnerable are no longer frightened by the intimidating forces,  it’s quite a powerful position to be in.

I learned the techniques of ‘psychological warfare’ in ‘street fighting’ and ‘how to organize allies’.

I could have become as one of my teachers so aptly put it,  a ‘major gang leader’. 

Alas,  I took another path.   One that was afforded to me by Governor Nelson Rockefeller—The NY State Regents Scholarship which allowed 800 of the top scorers (out of a pool of 2million) in NY State to attend Cornell University or Columbia.

 

A scholarship took me out of the ghetto and it’s racism turned me toward pre-med and literature studies.

 

Years later,  I was personally involved as a military officer in the Washington DC Riots,  with it's black on black violence and then decades later I witnessed first hand the consequences of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles.

I don’t like any type of killings. 

But I detest those individuals who instigate riots in the name of any race when they have nothing to lose but their brothers/sisters do.

 

Namely,  I accuse Eric Holder,  a precious son of Barbados family,  fortunate to attend the prestigious Stuyvesant High School and Columbia who makes ‘inane statements’ about judicial intervention on ‘civil rights’.

  Then of course,  we have our Mulatto POTUS,  who is completely lost in what he is supposed to do or be.   He really should retire for lack of vision and leadership and the complete INABILITY  to put any action in place.

Neither Obama nor Holder would not have lasted one day on 108^th street!

  As for Al Sharpton,  you ain’t no Adam Clayton Powell or even Malcom X.   Both those gentlemen knew the virtues of organized leadership and self-empowerment.

 

Al—get your narcissism in check!  OR CHECK OUT OF AMERICA and find yourself another country that could use your savage,  inane rantings.   Perhaps you should choose the Congo where you could incite racial violence with the M23 rebels!   Here you are just a paid circus performer doing the biddings of “the white media”.    I think Orlando Patterson was correct when he referred to you as a racial arsonist.   This is NOT about race,  its about poverty and “no way out” for kids in the South Side of Chicago or in Liberty City or you name the ghetto in one of our American cities.   Al,  do us all a favor,  channel your considerable talents to something more positive while you are still on this planet.   How about a scholarship program in your name to get smart kids out of the hood and into the Ivy Leagues?   Or maybe a tech school named after Trayvon Martin so other kids can have a chance to get out of the thuggery conundrum that cost Trayvon his life.

Just saw this again last night, a classic.  See it again!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_History_X

I will be posting soon, yes,  I will give you my thoughts on the Zimmerman case but here is some homework....its easy to read.
http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2012/05/the-10-poorest-high-schools-in-the-u-s/