Are Japanese Elite Hiding A ‘Weapons Program’ Inside Fukushima?

New America Media ^ | 4/6/2011 | Yoichi Shimatsu

[JohnKinAK]

April 7, 2011: Yoichi Shimatsu / New America Media News Analysis – April 6, 2011

Confused and often conflicting reports out of Fukushima 1 nuclear plant cannot be solely the result of tsunami-caused breakdowns, bungling or miscommunication. Inexplicable delays and half-baked explanations from Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) seem to be driven by some unspoken factor.

The smoke and mirrors at Fukushima 1 seem to obscure a steady purpose, an iron will and a grim task unknown to outsiders. The most logical explanation: The nuclear industry and government agencies are scrambling to prevent the discovery of atomic-bomb research facilities hidden inside Japan’s civilian nuclear power plants.

A secret nuclear weapons program is a ghost in the machine, detectable only when the system of information control momentarily lapses or breaks down. A close look must be taken at the gap between the official account and unexpected events.

[JohnKinAK]

Good, maybe you can to use it to look up “Ad Hominem” there Mr. Alinskyite.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

...Mr. Alinskyite.

Lol! To hear you preach about ad hominem! *snort* heh heh...Thanks for the laugh though. :-)

[Thud]

BS.

The Japanese can have nuclear weapons in about as much time as it takes to assemble them from previously prepared components.

[JohnKinAK]

Good Grief, our education system truly is failing us.

For an attack to be Ad Hominen a position or argument must first be taken. Ad Hominen logic is as follows:

Person A claims X.
Person B makes an attack on person A’s credibility(as opposed to the factual circumstances of Person A’s claim).
Therefore A’s claim is false.

Since the poster took no position and his position was in substance nothing but name calling and profanity; my response could not be Ad Hominem by definition. It was a personal attack, not an Ad Hominem attack. His response to the article was Ad Hominen, and somewhat perplexing since I was not the author of the article, and I merely submitted it for consideration with no claim to its apodicticity.

[Balding_Eagle]

Seesh, you’ll be gone before April is.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

I know. I took a logic class. He did ad hominem yes, but you did not address whatever position he took and instead called him names and attacked his credibility—that was an hominem as well. I was not trying to exonerate him, I was laughing mostly at you preaching about ad hominem while calling folks names. Have I called you any names (other than noob, which you are)? Yet you have called me an Alinskyite and said I went around doing ad hominem attacks on folks (Not that I am offended—I have been called much worse names than that. lol).

[TigersEye]

You know what they say about wrestling with pigs. ;^)

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Why thank you. ;-)

[tcrlaf]

The Japanese have the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant, but the Enviro-Nazi’s have turned it in to a 20 year, $20+ Billion nightmare that has reprocessed little spent fuel.

It’s start-up has been delayed 18 times, over the last ten years alone.

[JohnKinAK]

He took NO POSITION at all. His argument was that I was a nobody and used a profanity I won’t repeat. Just as your only position is that I’m a NOOB, which is not an position or argument at all. Therefore none of my comments can be Ad Hominen. For Instance if I now said you should retake the logic course.....that would not be Ad Hominem, it would be a simple a personal attack just like the term Mr. Alinsky remark was.

An example of how Alinskyites routinely utilize Ad Hominem attacks:

Tea Party person claims govt spending needs to be cut.
Liberal Politician claims Tea Party person is a racist, thereby discrediting the claim spending needs to be cut on an emotional level, without positing a counter argument of facts.

If the Tea Party person then replies to this Ad Hominem attack of the Liberal Politician by calling the Politician a Communist, the Tea Party person’s reply is NOT Ad Hominem; it is simply a personal attack as the Liberal Politician posited no counter argument.

Anyone who engages in this type of argument is in my book an Alinskyite.

Good night Comrade.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Sheesh. I don’t remember what he said exactly. I just thought it was a gas that you had to name call him right back. So grown up of you. ;-)

[Larry Lucido]

If you want the blog read, maybe you should have posted the whole blog.

And post it under Bloggers while you are at it.

[JohnKinAK]

It’s not a blog. It’s an online news media site that gathers news from around the world for mostly “ethnic American” consumption and is posted in their Asia section. The author is a Japanese journalist/writer and former editor of the Japan Times. It is his news-analysis; not mine. If you don’t want to read it, don’t follow the link, no sweat of my back. Also, I make no claims as to its validity; I merely found it an interesting possibility especially if you read the historical perspective he presents.

[TigersEye]

It’s not a blog is it?

[ScreamingFist]

I merely found it an interesting possibility especially if you read the historical perspective he presents.

Yes....so the Japs are storing nukes....according to you, in nuclear power plants. Look stupid. Westerners store nuclear weapons in.....wait for this....nuclear weapon sites. At first I thought you were just a retard....but having read your posts, I now know you are an educated....moron.

[JohnKinAK]

Mr. Alinsky,

The article didn’t state nuclear warheads were being stored there. Work on your reading comprehensions skills before throwing rocks as me thinks you live in glass house.

[ScreamingFist]

Work on your reading comprehensions skills before throwing rocks as me thinks you live in glass house.

I didn't read the article at all, until now. It reads exactly as I anticipated. So. I ask you, with the info gleaned from that left wing, pro-green rag....

"Is Japan's Elite Hiding a Weapons Program Inside Nuclear Plants?"

Please, feel free to elaborate.

[ScreamingFist]

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Frankly, that list is about as commie as it gets. But I’m sure you knew that already. You want to debate nukes that’s fine.....but don’t pop onto FR with left wing swill from a commie rag and expect to be taken seriously.

[Eyes Unclouded]

Good post.

Didn’t they also try to help South Africa develop a program?

[OldNewYork]

Thanks. I don’t know about South Africa and their program - they supposedly had six nuclear weapons developed with Israeli aid all through the time of the sanctions and divestment movement. And there was something called the Vema Incident, if I recall, during the Carter years, where they were suspected, then not, of an atmospheric test of one.