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wagyl wrote:Well I hope she knows how to put them to better use that he did.
Congratulations. Always a good move to have your right to remain in the country not linked to your workplace.
yanpa wrote: It should be a quicker way to PR and getting my balls back...
Marked Trail wrote::?: Anybody know him?Patrick Bommarito: Where is the love?
http://m2tokyo.com/blog/2013/04/20/patrick-bommarito/
This week I heard of the death of Patrick Bommarito, DJ, and long-term Tokyo resident. I had met Patrick only a few times over the years. The first time his reputation as an abrasive, highly outspoken AIDS activist preceded him. He had contracted AIDS in the early 90s and, after coming to Japan and seeing a lack of knowledge here, had decided to educate the country about the disease. It is little consolation that Patrick outlasted AIDS – he did not die of the disease.
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https://twitter.com/Patrickintokyo
wangta wrote:Regardless of what visa he was on, if Patrick had been in Korea he would have been deported the minute he admitted to having AIDS to a doctor or any other authority or if he had been public about his status. I am not sure what would have happened if he had been on a spouse visa in Korea but it's a safe bet pressure would have been put on him to leave Korea in that case. Japan is more humane and open minded than Korea, but yes, it's shocking how his last months were in Japan.
wangta wrote:What happened re the people who were among his networks? Why wasn't there a fundraising night or something? It seems odd that somebody who had such a high profile and was prominent in the music community was so neglected. Maybe the poor man had burned some bridges with people.
Yokohammer wrote:Just looking at this Bommarito thing, and something ain't right.
His Facebook page has been removed, as has the ameblo page the James Hadfield tweet points to.
But what's weird is that in all the quotes from his last days, when he's asking for help, he always refers to "we" rather than "I." "We" need money until "we" can move to Chigasaki ... etc. So who's "we"? Did "we" die too? If it was just a matter of money and/or nutrition, couldn't "we" help?
I'd never even heard of the guy before this came up.
yanpa wrote:wangta wrote:Regardless of what visa he was on, if Patrick had been in Korea he would have been deported the minute he admitted to having AIDS to a doctor or any other authority or if he had been public about his status. I am not sure what would have happened if he had been on a spouse visa in Korea but it's a safe bet pressure would have been put on him to leave Korea in that case. Japan is more humane and open minded than Korea, but yes, it's shocking how his last months were in Japan.
Korea always strikes me as the place which is like some of the more Debito-esque imagine Japan to be...
wangta wrote:
Yes, it is. The fact that I had a fairly good time there doesn't change the reality of a general lack of compassion and empathy in Korean society.
yanpa wrote:
It has been going through my head a bit... I never had any connection with him beyond writing for the same magazine, and I don't think I've heard anything of him since the late 90's, but it does strike me as odd that someone so apparently established could end in such dire straits.
From an era when paper still reigned supreme:
Yokohammer wrote:Just looking at this Bommarito thing, and something ain't right.
His Facebook page has been removed, as has the ameblo page the James Hadfield tweet points to.
wagyl wrote:Not to drag domestic politics of a foreign country into this, but that only means that there is a populous country across the Pacific where a large proportion of the population is fucked up and is being kept in that state.
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:Imagine the fun and games if it was an Osprey crash...
Coligny wrote:Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:Imagine the fun and games if it was an Osprey crash...
lose-lose situation... except every passing day the '46 are getting closer to their limit... Ask any stripper... at some point to body can't handle the b00tyshaking anymore...
Japan on Tuesday asked the U.S. military not to fly its Japan-based HH-60 helicopters until it determines why one crashed at a U.S. base on the southern island of Okinawa, as the U.S. Air Force said it had ended the search for a missing crew member after finding remains.
Three of the helicopter’s four crew members ejected from the aircraft and were in stable condition, the U.S. Air Force said in a statement. It said the remains found near the crash site were not yet identified.
Japan formally complained to the U.S. over the crash, which occurred at a time of intense local opposition to the U.S. Marine Corps’ additional deployment of 12 MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft on Okinawa, where anti-U.S. military sentiment is a longstanding issue.
“We have asked the U.S. not to fly the same aircraft until they find out the cause of the accident and take preventive steps,” Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera told reporters Tuesday.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Japan had also asked Washington to postpone a planned additional deployment of a dozen Ospreys to Okinawa until the latest problem is resolved.
The HH-60 rescue helicopter, which belongs to Okinawa’s Kadena Air Base, was on an unspecified training mission when it crashed at Camp Hansen.
Local media said the crash revived memories of an accident in 2004, when a CH-53 helicopter from Marine Corps Air Station Futenma crashed into a university building, triggering a huge anti-base uproar although there were no civilian injuries and the crew survived.
“We knew it was going to happen sooner or later,” said Kadena Mayor Hiroshi Toyama, referring to Monday’s crash.
The U.S. military has so far denied Japanese authorities access to the crash site.
Russell wrote:Anybody know how that works, ejecting from a chopper?
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