Asia's Code Pink

[live love laugh]

Story from Sunday Morning.


"Comfort Women" ages 82-90 are heralded as brides after years of disgrace; (r) they protest at a public event


Virginia Villarama was 14. Every day different Japanese men took advantage of her, she fainted after being raped by so many. Sex slaves. As the Japanese army conquered China, the Phillipines and Korea before WW2 they set up brothels forcing young girls known as Comfort Women, into sex slavery claiming it kept soldiers from raping local women.

Now, those women are fighting to assure that their stories are not buried and hidden by revisionists. The school textbooks have been changed to eliminate all references to these women. Ironically, the White House and Congress held hearings and reprimanded the Japanese leaders for this practice several weeks ago :eyes:. The Japanese leaders deny that the women were ever forced and claims they were volunteered. The Japanese are even lying about a Japanese massacre of 300,000 in Nan-King China, school books are being cleansed claiming it never happened.

Japan has it's Code Pink and America has become Japan.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. They're making a spectacle of themselves and embarrassing real brides.

Besides, it was a long time ago and nobody cares. Not only that, it makes anyone who is "really" concerned about Japanese War Crimes look foolish when they make displays of themselves. And, it's obvious they're just a bunch of attention-seekers who don't fully appreciate all the serious work done on their behalf by heroic politicians who are "dignified" and should never be challenged to do more.

Thought I'd save time for fashion police and those who get the vapors over "undignified" protests.

[Turbineguy]

2. Yes, I'm glad we got that out of the way.

There were terrible things done by Japan then. It's understandable that 60 years later you don't want to dwell on them. But it's too early to start yet. The people who were responsible for these horrors are mostly gone and Japan is a different country now. To purge these events from history takes away the juxtaposition of the "bad old days" and now.

Almost every country in the world has these skeletons in the closet. It's nothing to be proud of, but it's there. To try and deny it ever happened is a mistake. Nearly as big a mistake as the acts in the first place.

As for being forced into prostitution, I don't know how you can protest about it in a dignified way.

As for Code Pink, their protest at the Plame Hearing was at least as dignified as the people they were protesting against. No, quite a bit more dignified.

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[donsu]

3. wishing the (comfort) women well and shame on Japanese men

for trying to say it never happened. it happened. it matters.