Red Army Baby

[Mulboyne]

There can't be too many children of Palestinian terrorist fathers and Japanese Red Army mothers.

[floatl][/floatl]Japan Times: A life less ordinary
...It's really strange, but I never felt anger toward my mother. Of course I would feel anger that we had to live that way. But that's not because of my mother. It's because what my mother and her colleagues were fighting for is not recognized. For some people -- the minority, those who are the defeated, those who don't have power around the world -- we're not criminals...I don't blame my mother for the way I lived my life, for the way I am. On the contrary, I'm really, really happy for that experience...I don't think [my mother's] a hero, because she was simply doing something she really believed in; it wasn't charity...And she's not a terrorist. She never thought of killing people. She never intended to kill people...I wouldn't change the way I was born, I wouldn't change my mother if I were given a chance. I would want my life to be the way it was...more...

Neomarxisme speculates on the identity of her father here

[Ketou]

There can't be too many children of Palestinian terrorist fathers and Japanese Red Army mothers.

[floatl][/floatl]Japan Times: A life less ordinary
...It's really strange, but I never felt anger toward my mother. Of course I would feel anger that we had to live that way. But that's not because of my mother. It's because what my mother and her colleagues were fighting for is not recognized. For some people -- the minority, those who are the defeated, those who don't have power around the world -- we're not criminals...I don't blame my mother for the way I lived my life, for the way I am. On the contrary, I'm really, really happy for that experience...I don't think [my mother's] a hero, because she was simply doing something she really believed in]...more...[/URL]

Neomarxisme speculates on the identity of her father here

Think you'll need to redo that more link there.

[Mulboyne]

Think you'll need to redo that more link there.

Thanks for that. Slight cock-up...correct link now in place (although it will soon go registration-only).

[Ketou]

Thanks for that. Slight cock-up...correct link now in place (although it will soon go registration-only).

Cheers, was an interesting read.

[Hokgwai]

Can someone explain to me what interest would Japanese youth of 1972 have in siding with terrorists???

Is this another example of Japanese youth's fascination with foreign culture?

[Greji]

Can someone explain to me what interest would Japanese youth of 1972 have in siding with terrorists???

Is this another example of Japanese youth's fascination with foreign culture?

No, they were on the run from murder charges in Japan. They weren't siding, that's the only place they could go.

[Catoneinutica]

I've posted this link before on another thread, but it's so entertaining I'll post it again:

http://www.exile.ru/2005-December-15/the_japanese_red_army.html

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"The JRA was also the only terrorist group I know that thought globally, really took that commie "worldwide revolution" stuff seriously. They were always up for a bloodbath in Japan, but if that wasn't happening they spun their globes and picked someplace else to start blasting. I suspect that was partly because even these wackos realized there wasn't going to be a revolution in Japan. They offered their services to comrades everywhere, free of charge charity-terror.

The first group to take them up on it was the Palestinians, who after all provided Fusako with her inspiration in the first place. They asked the JRA to hit their Israeli enemies, and as usual the JRA was there with a can-do attitude. The result was a bloody slaughter at Lod Airport in Israel in 1972. Three JRA men flew in to Lod without attracting suspicion, because hey, it's three Japanese guys in suits, polite and quiet and harmless. Well, the whole notion that Asians are wimps is wrong to start with, and this time the world paid for stereotyping.

Guess where they had their weapons. You won't believe it: violin cases. Yup, like some old gangster movie. Man, people in 1970:well, it's like Beavis and Butthead say, "This movie is from back when people were stupid."

Nobody searched the cases. Nobody did a thing as the polite little guys opened the cases, took out machine guns, and started to, er, play their instruments. They played non-stop, spraying the crowds, until one of them ran out of ammo. His two friends did the comradely, Samurai thing by blowing him away. One of the two still alive did a different hi-tech hara-kiri by pulling the pin on a grenade and holding it like a corsage against his chest. The third guy wimped out and tried to hide in the crowd. Not too bright, this guy; "I'm just another broodspattered Japanese guy mingring with you Israeris, dum-dee-dum...Fitting right in... Hava-nageera-hava-nageera-hava..."

This letdown of the JRA bleated. He confessed the JRA had taken the job on contract from George Habash's PFLP, a small but deadly Palestinian group that was eventually pretty much wiped out by Mossad, one guy at a time. In 1970 their yearbook was still full, though-didn't have all those black X's over the seniors' pictures yet-and the JRA showed them the ultimate respect, terror-style, by doing their bloody laundry for them.

The three-man JRA team managed to kill 26 people at Lod-not bad for a brief shooting spree. You have to remember, humans are big mammals, good design--hard to kill. Only a shot to the head will do it for sure, and even then if it's a .22 the victim may live (he'll drool more than a stoned St. Bernard, and he won't be a major contributor to the global economy, but he'll live.)"

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Make no mistake, Shigenobu is a stone mass-murderer.

[Mike Oxlong]

Check out her pic...I'd hit it!

[kamome]

Check out her pic...I'd hit it!

Damn, you beat me to it Oxlong!

I'd hit it too.

[Greji]

Damn, you beat me to it Oxlong!

I'd hit it too.

When she breaks into a sweat and starts screaming Allah Arkbar, do not stick your neck or anything else out.

[jingai]

Can someone explain to me what interest would Japanese youth of 1972 have in siding with terrorists???

Is this another example of Japanese youth's fascination with foreign culture?

Leftists of the period thought the world was ripe for a revolution, and factions in a number of countries (Weather Underground in US, groups in Italy, Germany, Japan, etc) resorted to terrorist acts to try to bring it about. The JRA (Red Army, not Horse Racing Association) leaders ended up fleeing to countries who supported what they had done (North Korea, etc).

The 60s were a turbulent time in Japan, too, so their youth weren't just the sleep-walking freeters you might have seen on a recent trip.

A good book about the mindset of some of the kids of the time is "Rads" about the bombings at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by seemingly regular, working class kids.

[kamome]

When she breaks into a sweat and starts screaming Allah Arkbar, do not stick your neck or anything else out.

Good point. Hey, her Mom's a member of JRA! Did you hit that, gb?

[Greji]

Good point. Hey, her Mom's a member of JRA! Did you hit that, gb?

She worked as a hooker in a gin mill outside of a certain US base at one time. I repectfully decline to answer any further questions on the grounds that my answer might tend to incriminate me. Woof, Woof!