UN Former Aum Shinrikyo leader executed - Also, six other perpetrators of 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack
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i know the cultural aspects cause i'm a huge autist about jp history and culture, but I just think he deserved far worse.
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Many politicians are against it, but are usually at local government levels. If they go on to be elected to the national government, you can assume they realize shit doesn't work like that. Most Japanese lawyer groups are also against capital punishment, but it's expected when sharks make more money on appeals for people in prison for life than sitting on death row. You also have the "muh culture" aspect but that could better be summed up with common sense not to be a fucking criminal if you're not willing to face the consequences.
A lack of being able to get adequate evidence is considered one of the main reasons police allegedly rely on forced confessions. However, with the upcoming Olympics as an excuse, you see more security cameras, which otherwise wouldn't have been possible because bureaucracy and privacy concerns. I mean, it's generally illegal to film people without consent, which is why faces are blurred out in a lot of video and pictures.
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Good, I can recall this happening on the news when I was a kid I can recall the face of this one woman getting put onto a stretcher by guy's in what looked like space suits that where some form of positive pressure suit and it being on the news for days and seeing other news clips very much the same as that one.
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It usually doesn't. About 15 years is the average. One major difference is Japan very, very seldom uses it. Here's a complete list since 1993.
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Funny how life works. Never heard of Aum Shinrikyo until I came across a podcast that covered them for a few episodes. I finished that just a couple days ago and now the leader has been executed. A good wrap-up to a horrible fucking cult and their depraved leader.
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Sarin will fuck you up good if you aren't wearing a suit like that. I don't think this crazy fuck's cult had completely refined it at the time of the attack which is why it wasn't as horrifically bad as it could've been. I saw a documentary about it once and they apparently planned to use an Mi-8 chopper (that you see in pictures of their compound getting raided) with a sprinkler system like on a crop duster to fly over Tokyo spraying purely refined Sarin. Apparently that would've resulted in millions of casualties.
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Holy shit, are you telling me that the movie Cowboy Bebop had a villain’s plan modeled after what this cult wanted to do? TIL.
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Yea Sarin isn't something you never want to hear about someone trying to knock up even in a raw state, same with any Chemical weapon but Sarin has a horror all of it's own.
And I saw that documentary as well and it makes you glad they where only partially successful and there was a lot of incompatancy involved in there actions.
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Fun fact, the cult also attempted to get their hands on Ebola during a 1992 outbreak in the Congo, which would have been a rather interesting horror story had they been successful and cultured enough to do what the Rajneeshees did with E-coli and just smear it on every vending machine and water fountain and buffet they could get their hands on
EDIT: wait hold the fucking phone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjawarn_Station#Seismic_event
They...fucking...tested a NUKE?!
Ok real talk now. Given the transcendantly massive red flags a batshit cult made up of incompentant yet wealthy fucktards farming for nerve gas and ebola to cause mass casualty attacks, and apparently testing their own goddamn nuke in australia, must have been sending to every security agency on the goddamn planet, could this have been some kind of fucking conspiracy theory level "elements of various governments looking the other way or indeed actively covering up for them because reasons" thing?
I mean...its not entirely impossible that intelligence and security agencies were just this goddamn fucktarded (especially given the FBI logs leaked recently that shows them acting like full on twitter REEEEtards about drumpfff" but how the goddamn hell does a latter day charles manson cult get away with testing a fucking NUKE?!
EDIT: wait hold the fucking phone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjawarn_Station#Seismic_event
They...fucking...tested a NUKE?!
Ok real talk now. Given the transcendantly massive red flags a batshit cult made up of incompentant yet wealthy fucktards farming for nerve gas and ebola to cause mass casualty attacks, and apparently testing their own goddamn nuke in australia, must have been sending to every security agency on the goddamn planet, could this have been some kind of fucking conspiracy theory level "elements of various governments looking the other way or indeed actively covering up for them because reasons" thing?
I mean...its not entirely impossible that intelligence and security agencies were just this goddamn fucktarded (especially given the FBI logs leaked recently that shows them acting like full on twitter REEEEtards about drumpfff" but how the goddamn hell does a latter day charles manson cult get away with testing a fucking NUKE?!
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Essentially. Just without the big ol' Halloween floats and kickass soundtrack.
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Damn, that took long. Aum Shinrikyo is more or less the closest thing reality got to GI Joe's Cobra.
If you wanna learn about the cult in itself, The Last Podcast on the Left tackled the cult for four parts and it's well-researched. Parcast's Cults also tackled this as well if you aren't into the weed bruh humor of the former.
If you wanna learn about the cult in itself, The Last Podcast on the Left tackled the cult for four parts and it's well-researched. Parcast's Cults also tackled this as well if you aren't into the weed bruh humor of the former.
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They had destroyed a stronger batch they'd made previously in a fit of paranoia, so what they actually used was relatively weak. They had been able to synthesize some fairly terrifying stuff, but luckily, they fell short on the delivery mechanisms. For instance, in one of their Australia compounds in the outback, they had been trying to cultivate ebola, among other things.
They also tried to buy a nuclear bomb from the Russian mafia, but they got ripped off instead.
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It wouldn't be the first time, hm. Mawaru Penguindrum's plot as a whole was marked by a fictional past incident that was suspiciously similar to the subway attacks that this asshole and his cult performed, too; even more, some quotes in the show were apparently inspired by stuff the cult members said.
About Asakura and his accomplices, though? Hot damn, I though they had already been executed. Took 'em damn long.
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Took em long enough.
The fact that Japan gives little to no prior notice of execution makes this a little happier for me, this self-absorbed cultist psychopath was left to rot for 22 years, died alone and without solace.
The bastard was probably in the middle of some bullshit "life-changing" meditation talk with one of the apparitions in his head.
The fact that Japan gives little to no prior notice of execution makes this a little happier for me, this self-absorbed cultist psychopath was left to rot for 22 years, died alone and without solace.
The bastard was probably in the middle of some bullshit "life-changing" meditation talk with one of the apparitions in his head.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Japaneseism
1990s Japan is a strange time. It feels all too familiar.
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One big reason for that are the absolutely insane laws protecting religious groups in Japan that had been present from ca. 1945 till 1995 (guess why they changed it around that time).
Essentially, during the Meiji Restauration, Shinto was turned into the official state religion, but in order to not violate concepts such as the freedom of religion that the west cherished so much, it was deemed a non-religious state cult.
After WWII, in order to secure religious freedom, laws were created that effectively made religious groups immune to any kind of law - this wasn't their intention, but it sure was their effect. The moment someone investigated any religious group, said group could sue them for getting discriminated against. Afaik, there was one Yakuza group that modeled themselves as some sort of cult and made their boss their sacred leader.
In case of the Aum Shinrikyo, they literally got away with murder, even though it was blatantly obvious that they were involved (in one case, a lawyer was killed and an Aum-Shinrikyo pin was found in his apartment) - but the moment anyone investigated them, they would bitch and moan about oppression and the case was dropped before it could go anywhere. This happened repeatedly.
I think there was a short lived attempt at a political party that failed and at some point, officials did become weary of the Aum sect, which made them do paranoid shit which in turn lead to more scrutiny from officials, which made the Aum sect even more paranoid and so on.
Shortly after the Sarin Gas Attack, Japan changed their laws concerning the legal immunity of religious sects and such.
The criminals would band together cause there is more money to be made that way. The fact that they are hierarchical has nothing to do with any kind of japanese cultural aspects and all to do with cold pragmatism, tbh.
Again, it's more profitable to play by the rules and not piss off too many people.
Yakuza are outsiders who don't conform to society (that's why there's a lot of social outcasts in their ranks), they have a thin veneer of conformity, cause it's easier to fly under tha radar that way. Stirring up too much shit attracts attention and that's bad for business.
This sort of goes into a meta discussion about the merits of capital punishment, but on a matter of principle, I have to say that human rights should never be taken away under any circumstances. Them being inalienable is what makes them basic human rights.
Killing someone for any sort of crime is just a primitive way of taking revenge, which I feel achieves nothing. It seems to not even work as a deterrent in many cases.
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Well, Shinto's pagan-like nature and influence from Buddhist and even Christian syncretism, despite the Meiji government's attempts at separating it, made SCAP's "Shinto Directive" flawed because they treated it in a manner as if it were Christianity or Islam.
I should note, one of the Sakamoto family murder perpetrators (the lawyer and family killed for investigating Aum in the 80s) and a higher-up who murdered another member, not the Tokyo subway sarin attack, were executed in the lot. The former actually apologized and renounced his affiliation in a book he published last year from prison, and even theorized about Kim Jong-nam's death. The other two are still awaiting execution, save for one who was already killed by a Zainichi Korean Yakuza who rushed the police, stabbing him to death, and served twelve years in prison, likely under a new identity today and "rehabilitated."
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They didn't. Whatever blew up in the outback never left a definitive impact crater, scorch marks, or, most significantly, any radioactive fission byproducts. You can't set off a nuke an not leave those behind, and the most reliable way to detect that someone HAS set off a bomb is to find it's telltale isotopes floating as dust in the air that gets carried around the world. Intelligence community equipment "sniffs" for that stuff all the time, none was ever found.
The most likely culprit was a bollide, an incoming meteor that explodes in an air burst overhead. This will produce intense light, a deafening explosion that can be heard for miles, and will break windows and jounce seismographs, as happened in 2013 in Russia, except thanks to security and dash cams, it was caught on tape. (scary as shit waking up to that)
Buildings directly under the blast had doors and even walls blown in.
That event also closed the case on the Tunguska Event, IMHO, the evidence matches up in every way... bright light, shockwave, and ground destruction, but no crater and, obviously, predating nuclear weapons.
All the bomb talk is quite silly when you realize that if it were possible to actually buy a functional nuclear device on the black market, someone would've done it by now and lit up a major Western city or capitol.
If crazy doomsday-cultists could pick one up like a box of crackers, and then just 'test' it in an uninhabited area so easily, why didn't they buy another and go full Akira IRL? The fact they were in the area was likely one of history's coincidences.
The "sure we'll sell you a nuke that just fell off a truck, comrade, no problem" is a known way for Russian mafiosi to get you to give them a lot of money for a crate of old pinball machine parts, or, flush out rogue nations and terrorist cells up to no good. by posing AS said mafiosi.
See?