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dimwit wrote:Okay. I've got a bit of a question. Why are political signs even allowed in Japan in non election periods? In Canada they are not, and I suspect the same is true in most other western democracies.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:dimwit wrote:Okay. I've got a bit of a question. Why are political signs even allowed in Japan in non election periods? In Canada they are not, and I suspect the same is true in most other western democracies.
It's called freedom of expression which is something Canadians and Europeans fundamentally don't understand.
kurogane wrote:Japanese do public information better.............hence all the noise and visual pollution...............
kurogane wrote:Maybe you're kidding
kurogane wrote:I didn't care anyways, but I agree. Now if we could enact some Truck Speech laws to tone down those shouty campaign vans.
Just to clarify, even if only for You Know Who, those annoying vans and all the visual kerfuffle are the unfortunate result of their better public information campaigns, and that ethos in general. When was the last time in any Western Democracy any of us know about were important policy announcements accompanied by a cutesy wootsy comic book information and advice guide?
Wage Slave wrote:kurogane wrote:I didn't care anyways, but I agree. Now if we could enact some Truck Speech laws to tone down those shouty campaign vans.
Just to clarify, even if only for You Know Who, those annoying vans and all the visual kerfuffle are the unfortunate result of their better public information campaigns, and that ethos in general. When was the last time in any Western Democracy any of us know about were important policy announcements accompanied by a cutesy wootsy comic book information and advice guide?
Yep. And the round robin notifications, the well equipped local community centre and so on and on and on. I sometimes think the Americans were right to make really really sure that communism didn't get a chance here. If anyone could have build a super successful communist state it was this lot. And I mean that as a compliment.
Wage Slave wrote:Sometimes think the Americans were right to make really really sure that communism didn't get a chance here. If anyone could have build a super successful communist state it was this lot. And I mean that as a compliment.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:dimwit wrote:Okay. I've got a bit of a question. Why are political signs even allowed in Japan in non election periods? In Canada they are not, and I suspect the same is true in most other western democracies.
It's called freedom of expression which is something Canadians and Europeans fundamentally don't understand.
dimwit wrote:Samurai_Jerk wrote:dimwit wrote:Okay. I've got a bit of a question. Why are political signs even allowed in Japan in non election periods? In Canada they are not, and I suspect the same is true in most other western democracies.
It's called freedom of expression which is something Canadians and Europeans fundamentally don't understand.
Bullshit. It is called stacking the deck. Name recogition is a huge factor in local elections. By allowing incumbents to advertise during non-election periods you give them an unfair advantage and mocks the notion of free and fair elections. Now maybe coming from a country that doesn't believe in campaign expence limits, the concept of free and fair elections might be difficult to grasp...
As an aside, it seems to me that having posters of the prime minister littering the street seems to be a common theme in many people's democracies.
dimwit wrote:I agree that Canada, especially universities are full of pc nazies
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Anyway, get back to me when people in places like Canada and France are allowed to express non-PC opinions publicly without fear of legal consequences.
Russell wrote:Samurai_Jerk wrote:Anyway, get back to me when people in places like Canada and France are allowed to express non-PC opinions publicly without fear of legal consequences.
Considering the surveillance activities of the NSA, I doubt whether one can even express certain opinions privately without fear of legal consequences in the U.S.A.
kurogane wrote:BTW, both Canadian and British university course leaders are being strongly pressured to avoid terms like Colonial or Primitive even in critical examinations of these historical phemonena because it is seen to be Microagressive and can lead to Negativised Psychological Orientations amongst Racialised Students............or a synonymous term not far enough away from that to not be scary. I actually welcome all the Pundis and Hootytooties and even some of the Mohammedans, but we really need to start thinking about telling immigrants to just STFU and say Thank You, Thank You, Thank You Canada.
dimwit wrote:I honestly think that all posters are just eye clutter, and none should be allowed outside of election periods.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Trigger warnings are the latest craze at universities in the US. .
dimwit wrote:Ok, so if the posters are just electoral detritus why should anyone give a shit if someone defaces it?
Samurai_Jerk wrote:dimwit wrote:Ok, so if the posters are just electoral detritus why should anyone give a shit if someone defaces it?
They shouldn't but the guy would probably be in trouble if he had done the same thing to a Pocari Sweat add or a poster for the local matsuri. It's possible this arrest was politically motivated but there's no reason to think so based on the little information we have.
wuchan wrote:Samurai_Jerk wrote:dimwit wrote:Ok, so if the posters are just electoral detritus why should anyone give a shit if someone defaces it?
They shouldn't but the guy would probably be in trouble if he had done the same thing to a Pocari Sweat add or a poster for the local matsuri. It's possible this arrest was politically motivated but there's no reason to think so based on the little information we have.
there is a law that says a person can not mess with political things like posters.
Edward Jones, 34, was seized by the candidate's supporters and marched to a police station close to Higashi-Tokorozawa Station in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo.
Mr Jones was charged with violating the Public Offences Election Act.
Article 225 of the law says that infringing upon the freedom of a candidate in an election by interfering with their speech can be punished with a prison term of up to four years or a fine of Y1 million (£7,440).
A spokesman for the Saitama Prefectural Police told The Daily Telegraph that Mr Jones remains in custody. He informed police after his arrest that he was an English teacher and had been drinking with a friend before the incident on Saturday.
Police declined to provide further information and officials at the British Embassy in Tokyo could not be contacted for a comment.
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