Junichi and Toru out on bail!!!
After 26 days in custody, Junichi and Toru are out on bail.I'm relieved they finally get to go home to be with their families.
Still, justice will not be done until a proper investigation of the whale meat scandal happens. The unanswered question remains, "Why did the Japanese prosecutor suddenly drop his investigation into the stolen whale meat allegations, despite Greenpeace directly handing him the solid and compelling evidence?"
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The prosecutor "suddenly dropped" the investigation into the stolen whale meat allegations, after determining that there was no substance to the allegations. The crew members were found to have not "stolen" any whale meat, as alleged by Greenpeace.
You guys can invent as many fairy tales as you wish, but you should not expect that everyone else will play along in the same manner that all your "peaceful activist" puppets do.
One gets the impression that the what you mean by "proper investigation", Andrew, is one that concludes in an outcome that is conducive to Greenpeace's fundraising propaganda.
Grow up, kids.
Posted by: david | July 16, 2008 5:15 AM
Perhaps some higher-up ordered the investigation dropped because they're also in it. That's usually the case in corruption scandals here in the Philippines.
Posted by: Norman Sison | July 16, 2008 7:57 AM
The prosecutor dropped it claiming a "lack of evidence". Yet, he had:
Video statements by whistle blowers. (Sample at the bottom of this page.)
Contact details for these whistle blowers (so he could interview them himself).
Video of the boxes of whale meat being unloaded.
An intercepted box of stolen whale meat labeled "cardboard".
Oh, and here's the dossier Greenpeace Japan presented to the prosecutor: "Japan's stolen whale meat scandal".
Something smells fishy in Japan, and it's not only the tons of stockpiled whale meat.
Posted by: Andrew | July 16, 2008 6:30 PM