Speed III: Right-wing bus bashes Chinese Consulate

[Taro Toporific]

Japan Right-Winger Rams Bus Into Chinese Consulate
Reuters - April 23
TOKYO- - A member of a Japanese right-wing group rammed a bus into the Chinese consulate in western Japan on Friday, protesting over China's claims to the Senkaku Islands.... known as the Diaoyus in China...

China indignant at Japanese right-wing attack on Consulate...
Peoples Daily Online Fri Apr 23 2004 14:42:00 GMT+0900
<<lots of pix>>

[DJEB]

Those are MY islands, dammit! Mine!

[Snapped]

On Friday, Japan snubbed Chinese assertions that a small Japanese island in the Pacific was a "rock" and did not allow Tokyo to claim an Exclusive Economic Zone, which gives rights to fishing grounds and mineral extraction from the sea bed.

Reminds me of another dispute over the tiny rock/island of Rockall.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A755787

The United Kingdom, Ireland, Iceland, and strangely enough, Denmark, have been bickering for years regarding territorial rights to the place. This would seem at first glance a bit over the top, since limpets and gannet poo are found in abundance on all North Atlantic coasts. However, it's not what Rockall is that's important, it's what Rockall is on. Rockall sits on the Rockall Bank, a massive sea bank which geologists believe may contain significant amounts of natural gas and oil. Added to this are the lucrative fishing grounds surrounding the island. All this makes Rockall a highly coveted prize.

The British originally claimed ownership on Rockall in 1955. A number of 'annexation' forces actually climbed the rock to rubber-stamp the territorial claim. The UK Government subsequently passed an Act of Parliament in 1971 incorporating Rockall into Invernesshire in Scotland. They followed this by installing a navigational beacon on the island, and declaring that no craft would be allowed within 50 miles of the rock2. This prompted a fierce diplomatic fight where the status of Rockall as an island was put into question. Enter John Ridgeway and SAS man Tom McLean who, at separate times in the 1980s, climbed the rock and stayed there for one month, thus apparently validating Rockall's right to be an island, and therefore to be a sovereign part of British territory. This feat of endurance was broken in 1997, when Greenpeace activists landed on the island, stayed for 42 days, replaced the navigational beacon with a solar-powered one and declared Rockall the sovereign territory of Waveland, announcing that it was now, 'two steps closer to freedom from oil development and industrialisation'. The status of Rockall remains unresolved to the present day.

Still, nobody has crashed a bus anywhere bacause of this.

[Big Booger]

Did they set the bus on fire before driving it into the gate/building or did it catch on fire? LOL You never know with radical right wingers LOL

For some reason that bus reminds me of one of those southern prison work buses in the States.


"That's the sound of the man, working on the chain...... gannnngg.... oh donchu know"

[emperor]

The United Kingdom, Ireland, Iceland, and strangely enough, Denmark, have been bickering for years regarding territorial rights to the place. This would seem at first glance a bit over the top, since limpets and gannet poo are found in abundance on all North Atlantic coasts...

I think N.Ireland should get it - in order to give it a bit of colour - they can through up some murals and paint one side green, white and gold and the other red, white and blue - like they do on the pavements in the staunch republican and loyalist areas of belfast

Maybe a Saint Paddys Day parade or some Orange Order marches will boost tourism?

....No, but in all seriousness... Israel should get it... :P