representative of Japanese people in general , there is no hope for this country . They are truly brain dead and ROBOTS themselves .

 

This sort of thing is a way of life in Japan ! Money for favors and preferential treatment is a way of life ... Wrong , yes . Who's gonna stop it ? It is part of the culture .

 

Castro , Speilberg , Paltrow ...One big happy Marxist family .

 

Why bother arresting these dirty , crooked politicans anyway ? At worst all they ever get is a suspended sentence ! That is one reason why there IS so much corrption in Japan . These guys KNOW nothing is going to happen to them if caught !

 

What the H was the store doing with 3 and a half million yen in the cash register ??? A one day take ? Man , they must be pushing a lot of hair dye and tampons !

 

" Remember Reagan.. he ended up being the president of the USA! "

Reagan was a great man . Whether or not you agreed with him , he was a great leader . Gere is a jerk - oops - almost said gerbil !

 

Hey , I wonder if he has been down to Kyuhsu ? My daughter's and her friend's swimsuits were stolen , and the Vietnamese women across the street from me had their underwear stolen off of the clothesline a month or so back !

 

"because the amount of innocent people who would die is unacceptable"

I wonder if Mr. Gere--who through his ability to emote in front of the camera is obviously granted infinite wisdom in these things--would care to give us the answer to this question:

"What is the maximum amount of innocent people who may die in order for this to be acceptable?"

 

" High tech Japan " is sometimes a misnomer . I am down in Kyushu ( an hour from Kumamoto ) and we don't even have cable TV yet ! Internet connection is a slow ISDN , and we got that in March of this year ! My family live out in the boondocks of eastern Long Island and they had cable 25 years ago , and have had cable internet and broadband access for a few years now .

 

The sheeple have been SO de-sensitized to corruption and scandal in the business world and in government it doesn't even phase them any longer . Nothing is going to change , believe me . This is the way it has always been , and always will be . My father always said " never trust a Ja* ! "

 

Hugh Grant enjoys playing WITH himself !

 

look like something the cat DRAGged in !

 

" I won't stop smoking in public places even though it's illegal. "

" I smoke and I have a free choice and don't want to be limited by someone . "

" As a smoker, I try to avoid smoking in crowds of people, but when I'm drunk, I tend to smoke while walking in the street."

" If possible, smokers shouldn't smoke at the windward side but should do at the leeward side of the non-smokers."

 

the Japanese brewers would introduce something besides lager ! English style ales and porters would be so welcome as the Gov. taxes the hell out of imports IF you can find them .

 

never mind paper !

 

Mega dittos my man !

 

Sorry. No way it can be a hate crime, since only those "in power" can commit hate crimes, and we all know that guys like him are not empowered in our society. (The guns, ammo, sword and baton, etc. don't count).

( sarcasm off )

 

As usual , Kyodo leaves out the most important details . This was a hate crime , but of course isn't being reported as such because it involves a black man shooting whites . We all know that if a white guy had walked into a Harlem bar and did the same thing , the headlines would all read HATE CRIME !

Here is a story :

3 Shot in Racist Rampage
2 women overpower gunman
on suicide mission

By ALICE McQUILLAN, DEREK ROSE and BILL HUTCHINSON
Daily News Staff Writers

heavily armed man screaming, "White people are going to burn tonight!" shot three people at a trendy East Village bar yesterday and doused patrons with kerosene before he was overpowered by two women, police said.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly holds photo of Steven Johnson yesterday.

Steven Johnson, 34, of Brooklyn, was on a suicide mission when he burst into Bar Veloce on Second Ave. and 11th St. with guns blazing and hate spewing from his mouth, said Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

"I wanted to kill as many white people as I could," Johnson told detectives after the 40-minute siege, which left Johnson and three victims with bullet wounds.

Patrons said that after he poured kerosene on them, Johnson yelled, "Everyone's wearing gas shirts now!"

"Do you want it hot?" Johnson asked terrified hostages as he began flicking a barbecue lighter.

Police said Johnson's rampage may have been sparked by his battle with AIDS and the March 4 death of his wife, who also had the disease.
Bar patron hurt during gunman's rampage is taken to ambulance after incident yesterday.

Before leaving home, Johnson wrote a suicide note to his 10-year-old son and scrawled on the wall of his Williamsburg apartment: "Tell the boys in blue, I won't go easy," cops said.

"This individual is clearly deranged, possibly as a result of his wife dying," said Kelly, adding Johnson was carrying three guns, a 30-inch samurai sword, 153 rounds of ammunition, a box cutter, 100 plastic handcuffs, a kerosene-filled bottle and the lighter.
Weapons found at scene.

Johnson — whose rap sheet for weapon and drug arrests dates to 1985 — also was wearing knee and elbow pads and a catheter he apparently made himself, police said.

"He wasn't very eloquent, but he made it clear it was racially motivated," said Ann-Margaret Gidley, 23, one of two women police praised for tackling Johnson and ending the standoff. "We all knew he had a gun and a lighter and we didn't want to die."

The drama unfolded around 2 a.m. when Johnson accosted two men and two women at Second Ave. and 11th St., cops said.

Johnson ordered Jonah Brander, 28, of Fort Lee, N.J., to hand over his wallet. But as Brander reached into his pocket, Johnson said, "I have a problem with you" and shot him in the torso, police said.

As Brander staggered into Bar Veloce, Johnson grabbed one of the women, Elin Juselius, 20, and followed him, firing wildly into the air. Before reaching the front door of the popular wine bar, Juselius broke free and ran.
'Everyone thought it was a joke. Then the shooter came in.'
— Melanie Kaye.

New York University student Melanie Kaye, 20, was seated near the front door when Brander stumbled in holding his stomach and pleading for help. "Everyone thought it was a joke," said Kaye. "Then the shooter came in."

Kaye said Johnson shot Brander again in the torso and began screaming, "Get back!"

Some customers ran into the basement, broke through window bars and escaped. Others ran into a back dishwashing area, but there was no way out.

Johnson grabbed Robin Arzon, 20, by the hair and ordered her to bind people's hands with plastic handcuffs, witnesses said. He began pouring kerosene on people and threatening to set them ablaze, witnesses said.

At one point, Johnson attacked a born-again Christian woman who cursed Satan, witnesses said. "Don't you mention Jesus again!" Johnson told the woman, knocking her down and kicking her in the head. "Where's God now?"

Iso Shoji, 54, owner of a restaurant next door, heard the commotion and went to investigate. Shoji said that when he poked his head in the rear door of Bar Veloce he was shot.
Steven Johnson

"It happened in one second," said Shoji, who suffered a bullet wound to the left wrist.

After Shoji was shot, Gidley sprang into action. The slender, 5-foot-4 blond jumped on Johnson's back and another hostage, Annie Hubbard, 34, of Manhattan helped tackle him.

During the scuffle one of Johnson's guns went off, wounding Hubbard in the right shin.

Cops then stormed the restaurant and one Emergency Service Unit officer fired a single shot that grazed Johnson in the head.

"It was do something or die," Gidley said yesterday. "I didn't think it was time to go yet."

"They were very brave," Kelly said of Gidley and Hubbard.

Brander was in critical condition at Bellevue Hospital. Johnson and the two other wounded victims were in stable condition there.

 

As usual , Osama hits the proverbial nail right on the head . SHALLOW is the word !

 

We certainly need more upstanding , law-abiding role models like Ozzy for our kids . ( sarcasm off )

 

a die hard fan !

 

we blow our , blow our nose , blow our nose . this is the way we ..."

 

the Japanese team was already a bunch of robots ? The fans sure are ...

 

After all , it was only a lowly cab driver , and the murderer was only a confused boy. Give the kid a slap on the wrist and let me him off . He bowed just exactly right when he cried and said he was sorry .

SARCASM OFF . Hang the slimeball and the judge along with him !

 

" Wish you could have been here ! "