Okinawa Building Shelters to Protect Children From Objects Falling From US Aircraft
And we wonder why America is so disliked (to put it mildly) and distrusted (from personal experience) by people all around the world.
When I was young there was a movie that described how heavy handed and thuggish we are in regard to Japan (or basically any foreign nation) we occupied after WWII. I saw it because I loved Marlon Brando. It’s one of those movies that stay with you. And surprise surprise, it flopped at the box office. Americans didn’t like seeing the truth about themselves. (I saw it on television.) If you ever get a chance check out The Ugly American. Great movie.
Okinawa Building Shelters to Protect Children From Objects Falling From US Aircraft
The Okinawa government is building outdoor shelters for schoolchildren to protect them from faulty U.S. Marine helicopters. Multiple times now Okinawa schoolchildren have been endangered when random metal shrapnel from US military helicopters fell onto school grounds as they flew overhead. The Okinawa government is, therefore, constructing outdoor shelters to protect schoolchildren from any more accidents.
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The U.S. military has claimed it takes such accidents seriously and is investigating the cause of the incidents. However, it appears the Okinawa government is not confident the US Marines are taking the hazards seriously enough and so they are building outdoor shelters to protect children when planes or helicopters fly overhead.
Masashi Katsuren, an Okinawa Defense Bureau spokesman, revealed to the media that the government will be constructing four emergency shelters for schoolchildren, two at playgrounds and two at other locations. One will be at the Futenma Daini Elementary School.
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Okinawa is home to 32 US military bases despite being only 70 miles long and seven miles wide. For decades locals have protested the US military presence and are currently protesting the construction of a 33rd military base on Okinawa in Henoko Bay. The bay is home to 262 endangered animals species and a spectacular coral reef that rivals Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
I left out the parts talking about American military personnel’s shenanigans. I think I posted enough to make my point. It’s bad enough we’re dropping bombs on kids in ‘war zones’. Now it’s our military equipment falling apart on school kids. Luckily no child has been killed. (In our military’s eyes, they’re obviously expendable.)
I’ve often wondered, what would we do if the Japanese and German governments served us with eviction papers. What horribly stupid thing would ‘we’ do then?
Oh well, while we’re waiting we might as well destroy their environment. For OUR military’s benefit, which makes everything all right. Of course.
U.S. Military Base Construction at Henoko-Oura Bay and the Okinawan Governor’s Strategy to Stop It
This paper analyses the present (2018) state of the struggle between the government of Japan and the government and people of the prefecture of Okinawa, focussing on its most recent phase, since the Okinawan prefectural complaint was dismissed by the Supreme Court in December 2016. Governor Onaga then revoked his 2015 cancellation of the 2013 license to reclaim parts of Oura Bay as site for the base construction and works resumed in April 2017 after one year in suspension.
Since then, Governor Onaga has repeatedly declared that he will rescind the license under which those works are being carried out, but has given no indication as to when.
Work now continues, at an accelerating pace, and the Governor has recently issued permits allowing ports in Northern Okinawa to be used for transport of construction materials.
This paper analyses the apparent contradictions in the Governor's stance and the way they are understood within the protest movement.
K-1 and N-5 Seawall Construction, © Yamamoto Hideo
Seawall construction at K-1, N-5 and K-9 as of early January 2018. Red lines indicate that seawall construction is under way. Source: Hideki Yoshikawa
Looks like we may have worn out our welcome.
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We wore out our welcome in the Phillipines,
but then we started stirring up China (Obama) and that made the Filipinos nervous, and their new leader asked us back.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
It's been tried
People in Japan's government have run on kicking us out of their country or opposing new bases being built. But once they are elected they suddenly change their minds. Or their minds were changed for them.
The bigger question is how would people hear react if any country wanted to build their bases here? Good ole American exceptionalism would reject that in a New York minute.
It's okay for this country's navy to sail the seas close to other countries, but it objects when those countries move their ships in to see what they are up to. Or if they fly their jets close to the ships. Same with our spy aircrafts. Ours can fly close to countries airspace borders, but if one flew close to ours we'd blow them out of the sky.
BTW. How many are aware that we along with Australia and New Zealand are sailing a huge armada into the China sea to harass China's?
The message echoes from Gaza back to the US. “Starving people is fine.”
“The Ugly American” was a good movie, but there is some
kind of a jump from one thing to another in that text passage that might confuse people.
The movie with Marlon Brando about Okinawa was called The Teahouse of the August Moon.
The Ugly American was a different movie based on the book with the same title by William Lederer and Eugene Burdick.
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You’re right both Marlon both Asia, no where near the same
movie. I’ve slways thought BOTH were about Americans in Japan. I got that idea when I saw them decades ago. I was pretty young. Only one was disturbing and that was Ugly American.
Tea House was in Japan and it was about the villagers wanting a tea house rather than something I can’r remember. The Ugly American is what I mean. Marlon was in both.
In my movie Marlon was all freaked out that he was being used to stir up ‘trouble’. He was, although not meaning to, and the people got fed up with the ‘my way or the highway’ attitude of their ‘advisors’. There was some butt hurt over this movie. People were upset that American foreign service personnel were portrayed as being arrogant and unreasonably demanding.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
will never happen -
Fear is always working, better than money.
We fear those stupid things so much, we will never dare to evict you. Especially not this nice and kind and weaselly and smoothly bamboozling head of our DoD Ursula van der Leyen
I like the lady otherwise, she has style in her cowardice. Looks graceful, talks so reasonably, does shit. What else is there to say?
Joe has always those great quotes. I am too lazy to pick one that would fit in here. But I know he posted many that would.
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