Japan state secrets bill on track to become law despite protests - Polidicks

[img]http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20131205&t=2&i=817608405&w=&fh=&fw=&ll=700&pl=378&r=CBRE9B40SZF00[/img] [quote]A Japanese state secrets bill toughening penalties for leaks came a step closer to becoming law on Thursday when ruling parties forced it through a parliamentary panel amid protests it will muzzle the media and help cover up official misdeeds. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's drive to pass the law coincides with a worldwide debate on secrecy after former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden leaked documents on intelligence agencies' extensive collection of data about ordinary citizens and a U.S. Army private leaked masses of sensitive documents to anti-secrecy group Wikileaks.[/quote] [url]http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/05/us-japan-secrets-idUSBRE9B40BK20131205[/url] Related: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX7JLoqzLXE[/url]

why is he shoving paper into his face

[QUOTE=Jonne Bravo;43132987]why is he shoving paper into his face[/QUOTE] BECAUSE DISHONOR TO FAMILY I don't see the big deal, State Secrets are labelled as such for a reason.

[QUOTE=Jonne Bravo;43132987]why is he shoving paper into his face[/QUOTE] "YOU LEFT CUMSTAINS ALL OVER MY LOLICON!"

[QUOTE=BuffaloBill;43132999] I don't see the big deal, State Secrets are labelled as such for a reason.[/QUOTE] because state secrets are often abused to fuck and absolves responsibility from the government best known cases happens in united states 'oh hey, i know you guys wanna file a lawsuit to get proper compensation for the dude we tortured for days just because he had similar name to a terrorist ( brown people look and sound alike ok ), but hey. state secrets, fuck you'

So, basically they have something to hide and they're panicking it's going to get out.

[QUOTE=Tidusete;43133026]"YOU LEFT CUMSTAINS ALL OVER MY LOLICON!"[/QUOTE] [t]http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20131205&t=2&i=817608405&w=&fh=&fw=&ll=700&pl=378&r=CBRE9B40SZF00[/t] "YOU'RE WAIFU A [I]SHIT[/I]"

[QUOTE=BuffaloBill;43132999]I don't see the big deal, State Secrets are labelled as such for a reason.[/QUOTE] State secrets are the dumbest and most anti-democratic thing I can think of, at least in the US. Do you know the criteria for declaring something a state secret? They don't exist. Anything that can be seen as an embarrassment to the government can be declared a state secret. Any lawsuit that the government doesn't want to deal with can be tossed out this way. And if you don't think it's being abused, you're dead wrong. [url]http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/secrecy/R41741.pdf[/url] [url]http://www.acslaw.org/files/Frost%20FINAL.pdf[/url] Have fun reading.

what's worse if you somehow get them to release a document under say the FIA , they reserve the right to black out every word on the page as its still a state secret even though they are told to release the info

shamefur dispray

to get anything unobfuscated it takes hundreds of manhours and tons of judges then only if the agency in question does aknowlege the existence of the document on top of that they censor everything till its unreadable

[QUOTE=Source;43133074]So, basically they have something to hide and they're panicking it's going to get out.[/QUOTE] They don't want the public to know about Mechagodzilla.

This isn't what I'd expect from the Japanese, I though they were cool

Japanese Burt Reynolds at 3 o'clock

[QUOTE=Laserbeams;43135414]This isn't what I'd expect from the Japanese, I though they were cool[/QUOTE] Their legal system is actually pretty fucked. Anyone who has ever been through the Japanese court system will tell you that it's unofficially a case of guilty until proven innocent. They also have very strict laws in a lot of cases, for example their copyright laws are ridiculous.

[QUOTE=Laserbeams;43135414]This isn't what I'd expect from the Japanese, I though they were cool[/QUOTE] Their current government seems to hate any admission of wrongdoing on their part, past or present.

[QUOTE=l337k1ll4;43135490]Their legal system is actually pretty fucked. Anyone who has ever been through the Japanese court system will tell you that it's unofficially a case of guilty until proven innocent. They also have very strict laws in a lot of cases, for example their copyright laws are ridiculous.[/QUOTE] So it's basically the same legal system as in the USA?