Machimura warns Hatoyama over al-Qaida remark

Now he's blaming the environmentalists! Great!!

 

Okay... I need to get a couple of things straight here because they just make absolutely no sense to me right now.

1) How did Hatoyama receive advance warning of the bombing 3 or 4 months after it happened?

2) Why on earth did he decide it was wise to protect his 'friend (later friend of a friend)' and not warn Indonesian authorities or anyone else for that matter?

3) Finally, how on earth does this man's stupidity, and arguably his being an accomplice to the bombing by not doing anything about it, mean the new measures to fingerprint and photograph all foreigners are justified???

The Indonesian government should demand this guy's head for his complicity in the bombing, albeit only in his own confessed words of doing nothing about it. What's more, THIS guy should be fingerprinted and have to carry a biometric tracer everywhere in the future.

 

How can international trust in Japan be damaged any further, appointing ministers so daft that either way their comments are interpreted, it sounds ludicrously bad? Besides, he didn't 'tell the truth', he said one thing, and then another thing entirely.

blue_monday - I think you're right, though it is a reflection of his lack of knowledge. Hatoyama is clearly so out of touch that he doesn't realise the journalists at the FCCJ are far MORE likely to scrutinise what he says (and most of them will understand perfectly without translation into English, as well). This has been on the BBC News website this morning, so it'll be all round the World by now.

Hopefully, this guy's ministerial career is history.

Great isn't it, paying millions in taxes every year with no vote and so that clowns like Hatoyama can insult us

 

i wonder if his middle friend is an Yakuza (probably ^__~)

 

I can't decide whether to fingerprint this guy, or to dust him for fingerprints.

 

What's his friends name then we might know who the other friend is .he committed a crime and should be dealt with by a justice minister

 

with a moustache

 

Wonder if this is the same "friend" with the clap.

 

Just wondering if Hatoyama was referring to Lionel Dumont. It was in the newspapers at the time of his arrest in Paris that he had been a resident of Nigata and a frequent worshipper at a mosque in Gunma Prefecture.
Rather than blabbing about info received from friends' friend's friend it would seem more appropriate for him as Justice Minister to get his police force to do some work and see if they can come up with some proof .

 

FINGERPRINT HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! J-Gov are all terrorists, corrupted as no other govs on the world, central driven as in N.Korea and Cuba and far away behind the rest of the world regarding human rights. Hatoyama on the other hand has great friends, and try to branwash people about reason to fingerprints foreigners. So, how is that he knew about a guy who passed Japan 5 times and nothing has been done, even a guy himself did not do anything here?

 

I think he's now saying that, three months after the bombing took place, his friend told him he had been warned about it beforehand by a friend who is/was in al-Quaida.


Also, even if he was notified after the fact, why hasn't he given the name of his friend to the Indonesian and Japanese authorities so they can figured out who the friend of the friend is?


It's because we all wear disguises. Something like that.

 

...it wasn't the friend's girlfriend's brother's friend he met that one time, now that would have been messy.

 

Then he compared it to the u.s. visit check program...
But unlike Japan's program, which is aimed at every person (not of Japanese or ww2 era korean-japanese nationality)

The U.S. visit check ONLY APPLIES TO VISITORS, NOT RESIDENTS...

And why every single time...? Pure Racism...No other reason.

Sorry Japan MOJ
after 20 November I'll do all my entries into Japan through Yokota.

 

And you have never been fingerprinted for ID purposes? I bet you have, if you are able to come in through Yokota.

 

He should resign, and take his fingerprinting racism with him. These comments about his supposed friend of a friens being in Al Quaida are the last straw with this discredited politician.