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Cult Leader Should Not Be Executed, Daughters Say
LA Times ^ | 04/02/2006 | Bruce Wallace

Posted on 04/02/2006 6:23:01 PM PDT by Senator Bedfellow

TOKYO — Like good daughters anywhere, Mayumi and Kaori Asahara worry about their father's declining health. They are alarmed that he looks so thin and won't see a doctor. They fret that he refuses to wear the new clothes they gave him to replace his fraying old ones.

But they desperately need something back from their father too. They are seeking an explanation of why the man who taught them to cherish life, even that of an ant, could be a cult leader responsible for Japan's worst terrorist attack.

"I need to ask my father directly what happened," said Kaori Asahara, who was 12 in 1995 when her father ordered the Aum Supreme Truth cult's sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway that killed 12 people and made thousands ill.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aum; cult; religion; spiritualitykills
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1 posted on 04/02/2006 6:23:03 PM PDT by Senator Bedfellow
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To: Senator Bedfellow

Where are the pictures of the daughters?


2 posted on 04/02/2006 6:26:10 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: demoRat watcher; RunningWolf; mdmathis6
Spirituality kills!
A special ping to discuss the excesses of the faithful.


3 posted on 04/02/2006 6:28:17 PM PDT by Senator Bedfellow
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To: Senator Bedfellow
Spirituality kills indeed.
4 posted on 04/02/2006 6:30:15 PM PDT by balrog666 (Irrational beliefs inspire irrational posts.)
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To: Senator Bedfellow; aculeus
You be BAD.

False Prophet: The Aum Cult of Terror

5 posted on 04/02/2006 6:31:40 PM PDT by dighton
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placemarker
6 posted on 04/02/2006 6:37:44 PM PDT by CarolinaGuitarman ("Things are not what they always seem.")
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To: Senator Bedfellow

and what do I remember??? a mofia don who got away with crap for years acting crazy and walking the streets? could one possibly consider one might think it's better to crap in a diaper than not be able to crap??

Dead man setting.


7 posted on 04/02/2006 6:39:36 PM PDT by Bubba (I'll take my part of that Japanese raw fish... Southern Fried.)
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To: DTogo
Nihon Ping :D
8 posted on 04/02/2006 6:40:35 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you....... :^)
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To: Bubba

Crazy like a fox, no doubt.


9 posted on 04/02/2006 6:40:49 PM PDT by Senator Bedfellow
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To: Senator Bedfellow

just slip the old b-tard some sarin in a fortune cookie .


10 posted on 04/02/2006 6:46:56 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Senator Bedfellow

I was living in Japan when all this went down... this guy was running a cult that made the Jim Jones koolaid kids look pretty tame.

I don't care if he's nuts now or was nuts then or either or neither.

He needs to be toasted.... and the sooner the better.


11 posted on 04/02/2006 6:49:55 PM PDT by lOKKI (You can ignore reality until it bites you in the ass)
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To: lOKKI

Works for me.


12 posted on 04/02/2006 6:57:51 PM PDT by Senator Bedfellow
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To: Senator Bedfellow

Add me to your ping list please


13 posted on 04/02/2006 7:18:19 PM PDT by furball4paws (Awful Offal)
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To: lOKKI; Senator Bedfellow; dighton
He needs to be toasted.... and the sooner the better.

Too many murderous nuts escaped toasting. Pol Pot being the worst recent example.

14 posted on 04/02/2006 7:18:48 PM PDT by aculeus
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To: Senator Bedfellow
"Faith in things unseen" just makes some maniacs homicidal.
15 posted on 04/02/2006 7:19:47 PM PDT by VadeRetro (I have the updated "Your brain on creationism" on my homepage.)
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To: Senator Bedfellow

Please add me to this interesting ping list.


16 posted on 04/02/2006 7:25:11 PM PDT by Alien Gunfighter (Secular Misanthropist)
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To: Senator Bedfellow

Please add me to this interesting ping list.


17 posted on 04/02/2006 7:25:26 PM PDT by Alien Gunfighter (Secular Misanthropist)
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To: Senator Bedfellow

Please add me to your list.


18 posted on 04/02/2006 7:38:15 PM PDT by lesser_satan
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To: VadeRetro


19 posted on 04/02/2006 7:40:52 PM PDT by balrog666 (Irrational beliefs inspire irrational posts.)
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To: Senator Bedfellow

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I literally laughed until I cried when I saw your ping.

I have obviously spawned a new quick-ping genre.


20 posted on 04/02/2006 8:27:52 PM PDT by demoRat watcher (Keeper of the Anthropocentrism Ping List)
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