Ten Years On Aum Going Strong

[AssKissinger]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/japan/story/0,7369,1440634,00.html?gusrc=rss

In 2000 it renamed itself Aleph, admitted its role in the gas attacks, and agreed to pay compensation to the victims. So far it has paid out 540m yen (£2.7m), but attempts under its new leader, Fumihiro Joyu, to convince the public that it has renounced Asahara's violent extremism have failed.

Now membership stands at about 1,600, according to the national police agency. Groups of followers are routinely refused permission to rent properties, and those they do occupy are the targets of eviction campaigns by other residents and attacks by right-wing extremists.

The 120 or so members who live at Aleph's headquarters, spread between three ageing apartment blocks in suburban Tokyo, are under 24-hour surveillance by armed police and worried neighbours.

What they need to do is to take those 1,600 current members and kill them. Then they would have zero members. 1,600 minus 1,600 equals zero. Zero is how many members they should have.

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050318/ap/d88t8mgg0.html

Thirteen members of the cult, including its former leader Asahara, have been sentenced to death for the subway attack and other crimes, and dozens of others have been imprisoned. But none has been executed. Asahara and others have appealed their sentences to higher courts.

If they're having trouble finding an executioner I'll do it. And if Japan's not willing to do it then America should.

http://us.cnn.com/US/9703/23/briefs/japan.gas.attack/

A Japanese doomsday sect considered launching attacks with deadly sarin gas inside the United States, according to published testimony from the ongoing trial of its members in Japan.

[Charles]

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050318/ap/d88t8mgg0.html

Thirteen members of the cult, including its former leader Asahara, have been sentenced to death for the subway attack and other crimes, and dozens of others have been imprisoned. But none has been executed. Asahara and others have appealed their sentences to higher courts.

Hmm.. I recall asking about that a while ago, I didn't think any of the Aum criminals had been executed, that's the sort of news item I would have noticed. But you said you recalled a couple of them were already executed. Wishful thinking maybe. But at least we have a definitive answer now: zero executions.

[AssKissinger]

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050318/ap/d88t8mgg0.html

Thirteen members of the cult, including its former leader Asahara, have been sentenced to death for the subway attack and other crimes, and dozens of others have been imprisoned. But none has been executed. Asahara and others have appealed their sentences to higher courts.

Hmm.. I recall asking about that a while ago, I didn't think any of the Aum criminals had been executed, that's the sort of news item I would have noticed. But you said you recalled a couple of them were already executed. Wishful thinking maybe. But at least we have a definitive answer now: zero executions.

Yeah, I guess it was wishful thinking. I thought they already strung a couple up but I guess I was wrong. Sorry for the misinformation, but then again, who needs truth when we got the Internet?