Okinawans seek to charge Marines with attempted murder
According to Stars & Stripes, Okinawan politicians want to charge III Marine Expeditionary Force commander Lt. Gen. Lawrence Nicholson, Camp Smedley D. Butler’s headquarters and support battalion commander Col. William DePue and a group of unidentified Marines because a bullet was fired that went outside of the range fan at a small arms range and struck an unoccupied shed.
“This incident happened in Japan, and on Japanese soil; we should be able to apply Japanese law and bring justice,” said Ichiro Miyagi, a member of the Social Democratic Party and one of the complaint’s nine signatories.
Police have a few days to determine whether there is enough evidence to pursue the case. They declined to comment Thursday.
Marine officials could not be reached for comment Thursday afternoon.
The alleged shooting incident occurred sometime between 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. June 21 in Sukuta, Nago, according to Japanese police. A mango farmer told authorities he had come home from shopping to discover two broken windows in his shed and a 2-inch-long bullet on the floor.
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The law regarding attempted murder in Japan states that intent usually must be present to qualify for conviction, however, the bar can also be met if there was a “plan or high risk of causing death to the other party.”
Good luck with that Mr Miyagi.
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What would “a 2 inch bullet” be? Is he talking about an entire round or the projectile. Given all of the crap we catch over having troops there, why not shut down the bases and let them live without the Yankee dollar all have been thriving on since WWII.
“2 Inch” is huge in japan, we are talking Godzilla.
and that is, in fact, what she said too.
Too funny. The phukers who raped women and used babies for bayonet practice, who executed untold numbers, who used Americans as slaves, starving them and denying them medical treatment, who attacked us w/o provocation, and who wreaked bloody havoc throughout the Pacific until stopped by atomic bombs, are complaining about a single errant bullet that hurt no one?
The Imperial Japanese Army mobilized 1,780 middle school boys aged 14–17 years into front-line-service in the battle of Okinawa. Thousands of Okinawans threw themselves and their families from cliffs ahead of the advancing American troops at the direction of Japanese troops.
Let’s not forget their use of innocent civilians for Biological Warfare testing as well.
Rape of Nanking…. and don’t forget the shrine they have to war criminals…
The Bataan Death March, atrocities committed on our POWs, the bayoneting of Hospital Patients in what was then The Dutch West Indies and the list goes on. Let’s not forget that the Imperial Japanese Military tried to mobilize Civilians to fight to the death in anticipation of the Japanese Mainland and they didn’t give up until after being nuked twice.
Spot on, as usual API
“…in anticipation of an invasion…”
Unit 731
Yep, the Japanese Bio-Warfare Research Unit.
Right On? someone in that disturbed group needs to take their pills!!
“2-inch-long bullet”?
Mr Miyagi might want to tug president Trump’s cape on that and see how fast the US leaves Oki taking all the $$$ that flows into their economy.
Maybe a .50 slug? Those are around 2″ long IIRC.
I’d assume that the round was a spent .50 cal, as the projectile itself in that case would be a bit over 2 in long.
So what’s he more upset about? A 2-inch long bullet struck his shed? Or that one of the bullets we use in our guns is longer than his penis by about an inch?
Agree with everything above, and one other point I noticed… one of the idiots filing the complaint is a member of the “Social Democratic Party”.. is anyone else noticing a trend???
That was my immediate thought. Anyone who espouses the ideology of Karl Marx aka socialism is mentally ill. In many cases, incurably so. There is also nothing democratic about socialism once the committed socialists acquire total power. 20th Century history is littered with how socialist “democracy” works. These totalitarian dictatorships all call themselves “democratic,” including those bastions of free and fair elections, the Democratic Republic of North Korea and the former East German “democratic republic.”
I’m surprised you didn’t also mention the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and Democratic Kampuchea.
What does the SOFA say regarding such incidents? ‘Cause if the SOFA says that such incidents are handled through diplomatic channels, then that’s that.
But chances are that Mr. Miyagi doesn’t actually care about the incident itself, but rather is using it for his own political grandstanding purposes.
Which just goes to show you that politicians and politicians no matter where they are. 😉
The Japs on Oki have long wanted all the Marines off of the island. It reminds them of the asskickings we handed them during the war.
Here is a solution. Lock down the base. Make the entire isloand off limits to all Marines and other personnel. All tours become unaccompanied. All Marine Bases become closed bases and security areas from fence to fence, and no Japs allowed access. Fuck the Japs.
Just look at how the Filipino economy collapsed in a lot of places when we pulled out of the PI!!
I pulled out of a Pinay girl just last night 😉
Attempted murder of a shed? Oh please Mr. Mango. Do these random shed murder attempts occur on a daily basis? Did you take the shed to the hospital? Were Last Shed Rites administered to the shed? Was a shed tourniquet necessary? So who is expected to pay for the Shed Ambulance? It breaks my heart thinking about a shed standing there bleeding, with two broken windows to boot. Let me guess…it was a BABY shed at that.
Maybe Mr Mango will get a she-shier she shed;
I seem to remember that there was talk about moving the 3rd Mardiv out of Okinawa and moving them to Guam? This was during The Ones Glorious Rein. Again, I am old and forget things but there was mention that the Japanese Government was footing half the cost. I say Bring them to Guam, US territory and a hell of a lot nicer than Okinawa. They might hate us, but they sure like our money. I wonder if Mr. Miyagi will set aside money to retrain all the Bar owners, the people who work on the bases, the bar girls and shop owners. That should put a crimp in his SJW zeal.
I seem to remember one of our Congress critters saying that if the 3MARDIV was move to Guam, the island would tip over and everything and everyone would slide off into the ocean.
Yup, an “esteemed” member of the CBC as I recall..
Now that, I remember! Some real Rocket Scientists we have on the Hill!
And he’s still there. Ready I’m sure to lecture us on the “scientific” basis for man-made climate change.
Well, since he checks the right boxes for the area he represents, he’ll be there til he decides to leave (or ends up in jail)
I think that mental midget was Robinson, if I remember right!
That would be the gentleman from Georgia’s 4th District, Representative Hank Johnson.
Hank is living proof that a cretin can serve in the House.
Puerto Rico really took it in the shorts in 2004 when the military pulled chocks at Roosevelt Roads. Mr. Miyagi should take note of that fact.
Perhaps it is time again to remind them WHO won the war????
I wonder how much money he thinks he can shake the US Government down for, he’s scheming worse than a Korean!
Mr.Miyagi loves it when a teen boy ‘wax off’ in his company 😉
My condolences to the shed and its family.
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Remember the old cartoons where the “bullet” is an entire cartridge that fires from the muzzles?
Still happens,was in that pisspoor angelina Jolie movie where they curved bullet paths etc.
How did one slug break two windows? There are probably over a million .50 slugs still on and in the ground on that island. Take one of them, polish it up, break windows, drop slug on floor, a’ viola, attempted murder!
My Big question is how can it be attempted murder if nobody is in the shed ? Joe
Hey Okinawans….if you keep doing stupid shit like this….
“DON’T MAKE US COME BACK OVER THERE AND TAKE YOUR SHIT, AGAIN
I was on Okinawa 93-96. Nice folks, but they had their share of leftists. I was at Hanza, five minutes from Torii. Went through the whole 2 marines and a corpsman rape thing. I guess what Im trying to say is, don’t confuse the Okinawans with their leftist component – not the same people.
That may well be true Jorge, but if it is, they need to unfuck their various political leadership and tell them to stop screwing around with the main gravy train on that smelly hole of an island, namely the Americans.
Yeah, the Oki governor at the time was a leftist, so he just let the crap go on. The police set up a fence around our array, just as a symbolic “barrier.” We even had to let one of the most vocal protestors who “rented” his plot of land to the Japanese government (for our use) go to his land to have his little commie party. It was pretty silly, but hey….
This fuggin guy making a fuss over 1 round that broke a couple of windows.
Elsewhere on the same fuggin island are hundreds of unexploded ordnance from the invasion that haven’t been found yet.