Published: January 23rd, 2012 at 12:28 pm ET
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Title: 750 police officers to be assigned to 3 prefectures devastated by March 11 disaster
Source: Japan Today
Date: Jan. 23, 2012 – 06:16AM JST
The National Police Agency (NPA) will assign 750 police officers to the three tsunami-hit prefectures of Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima.
The NPA said in a statement that there are not enough officers to patrol the region. There has been an increased in reported thefts, especially in the evacuation zone in Fukushima, the NPA said.
The NPA said it asked for volunteers, who are single, from across the nation. [...]
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Published: January 23rd, 2012 at 12:28 pm ET
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Thefts of hot property, no doubt.
There’s something goofy about the need for 750 officers to patrol an evacuation zone (where people aren’t), while they ignore the needs of others in distress, as documented often here at Enenews.
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This is such an obvious move by the government to completely control all information coming from Fukushima. I am sure the problem is once again wildly overstated by the state so they can implement their own “solution” to the created “problem”. There is a reason besides theft (Seriously, it is an EVACUATION ZONE) that police officers are being sent.
Perhaps, they want to make sure that not a single journalist gets in and no activists get in so that word of the truth does not get out. Government IS the original mafia and they must squash any truth from Fukushima less the public actually fight to end nuclear power and fight for the justice of those hurt and wronged by this nuclear disaster. This should be common sense for most enenewsers and sadly should be common sense for the public. (It isn’t.)
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We just recently have been seeing posts of Japanese journalists interviewing the people still in the evacuation zones. This sways public opinion very much. I guarantee the government has taken notice. This is much more than a conspiracy theory as these plots have been documented time after time after time, after time, after time, well you get the picture.
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There may be a certain amount of ‘looting’ going on. Especialy if people are trying to locate some of the fuel pelets that have been blown out of the reactors. I’m sure the Japanese don’t want that shit showing up at their central government buildings or anywhere else for that matter.
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You’re right, SPS. I had forgotten that some of the “loot” might be fuel pellets.
Without adding that very real concern, I had been thinking that the cost of 750 cops at (say) $30k/year would add up to over $20 million/year.
Such a cost should be factored in whenever anyone talks about “clean, safe, economical, renewable nukes.”
Again, without even thinking about your fuel pellet point, I was interested that “the authorities” were concerned enough to prevent theft, resale and distribution of radioactively hot goods to spend some $20 million. I don’t think these cops are needed to make sure the “loot” is returned to its rightful owners.
It’s hard to imagine something comparable after any other kind of energy disaster. People wouldn’t go around looting dead fish after an oil spill or lumps of coal after a mine collapse – and if they did, it wouldn’t be much of a threat to the public. If it’s worth spending $20 million to prevent stuff being looted, what would the cost to society be for the inevitable bits that are looted anyway?… and then there are your fuel pellets. Aieee!
Nuclear power really is different.
SHUT THEM ALL DOWN
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I believe Tepco has generously donated all fallout to the affected landowners – see http://enenews.com/tepco-radioactive-substances-from-fukushima-belong-to-landowners-not-us-as-november-tests-show-massive-contamination-far-outside-evacuation-zone
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I don’t think it’s odd they want security, I think it’s odd that they want single men. Sterility at best, death worst case. Or something along these lines.
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Lower liability…no spouse and kids to compensate later. Its actually quite telling of the bigger picture imo.
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Shivering at the implications
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Why is it if that you don’t have a WOMAN, you’re expendable?
What a load of bull
They should send MARRIED MEN in there and put them out of their misery. ;P
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Because the government needs a fresh supply of slaves. That is why marriage, a strictly religious pact, comes with tax benefits and a legal status. You also get way more benefits when you have a kid while married. People are so indoctrinated that they believe you can’t be with someone forever and love them without marrying them. Also, the radiation will kill your little swimmers. lol
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Yes I understand all that.
But who’s to say one of those SINGLE men won’t meet someone a year down the road?
But now they’re irradiated and doomed.
No life is less important than another
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Now THAT’S funny shiverca. Few laughs THESE days.
“And John (Lennon)!! Wipe that GRIN OFF YOUR FACE! You bother me!”
It really does some days.
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I bet some wives may volunteer themselves out of their misery as well.
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Single man cuz chances are they might die.
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I know but what makes THEM less important? Because a woman loves them?
Women are FICKLE in my experience, if you piss one off they leave you, and that’s something that makes your life more valuable? Because of a Woman?
it’s more important that you have LOTS OF FAMILY that care about you, not weather you’re married or not.
I just think that whole mentality is ridiculous.
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Being widowed with children is a great hardship.
It does sound like there is a risk these men could suffer dire consequences as a result of exposure to radioactive contamination. That might include their early death. If their genetic material/sperm are damaged, their offspring could suffer the consequences for many generations to come.
What other reason(s) could there be for asking for single men to apply? Perhaps it’s preferred because women and children (who suffer more from the effects of radiation) are more vulnerable if they come into the evacuation zones.
This isn’t about marriage status. It’s about preserving the health of future generations. That’s what is at stake. It’s not that the married men are more valuable.
If you have no offspring or they don’t survive, or they are horribly mutated/genetically damaged, you eventually have no people. Or you have people so damaged they have very little quality of life.
Of course, the statements above assume the reason they are asking for single volunteers is because of the radioactive contamination.
If these men must stay in the evacuation zones for long periods of time, they would also not be able to see their families or spend time with them often. Perhaps that is a consideration as well.
Shiverca, are you single? Perhaps you needn’t take it so personally.
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You got it… Japan’s future population thru this whole nuke mess is 100% dependent on producing new Japanese people if there are to be a Japanese people. I think its what any country would do.
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With an attitude like that its not surprising that a woman would leave you if you pissed her off. Give me one reason why she should not?
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Bingo…very telling. Like soldiers on the front line…no different.
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From posts on this and other sites, I have learned enough about Japan’s government to hold to two things:
1) I never want to visit there, Fukushima or not.
2) It is dangerous, and there’s a good reason the US has kept troops there since the end of WW2.
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JAPAN IS RUINED for me. For everyone.
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Dear Volunteers!
Your oysters will grow at twice the normal rate and you are sure to find love after!
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!!!!!!!!
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If we compare Tokyo and Fukushima, how safe is a person in either place?
Where is it really Safe, if we are all inhaling 5-10 hot particles a day from Fukushima? Then just add the daily dose of internal and external radiation, in a free radiation buffet..
What will you have for breakfast this morning dear?
A little alpha, some beta, with a little gamma radiation on top?
http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/3076288
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…no one should volunteer..send the friggin military.
…send the TEPCO managerial staff.
…why send people to die..?
..let ‘em do their own dirty work..
PS..there is a fine line between being a martyr and a chump…..
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To volunteer requires double think. On the one hand head of Japanese medicine Dr Shitinya says that there is no danger and that no one need be worried as cheerful laughing people are unaffected by radiation. Furthermore the Japanese government says the problem is all over now that the plant is in “cold shutdown”. Might be an effort to “protect” the public by making them laugh?
But then on the other hand again, despite claims from Japan’s head of medicine that there is nothing to worry about, and from the Japanese government that its basically all over, they call for volunteers on what sounds like a suicide mission.
Why call for volunteers from the police? If its that bad, why not the army? Perhaps its just to create the right PR, it would look bad if they sent in soldiers to die, but they can pretend its business as usual if they send in cops.
Here’s another thought. It would only be a very brave, heroic, principled and selfless cop who would volunteer for suicide duty. I guess its one way of eliminating any honest cops in the Japanese police force. A double bonus for the government!
>>>PS..there is a fine line between being a martyr and a chump…..
Sadly Heart, this case proves your statement correct. The Japanese government has told so many lies now that anyone following this crisis should know those cops who volunteer will be lied to and abused. As a matter of principle, one should not believe liars and have nothing to do with them. I agree, no one should volunteer under those circumstances. No one should be volunteering until the Japanese government starts telling the truth. Which in reality means its time to just walk away. (or run)
>>>..let ‘em do their own dirty work..
Absolutely. Its time to start prosecuting those who have lied to the Japanese people and holding them to account. Dr Shitinya admitted he was lying and admitted it on video. Hold those liars to account. Send them to do the clean up operation that they claimed…
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Make those whose lies to cover up this mess have cost so many extra lives do the clean up. They claim there’s nothing to worry about to make money out of the deaths of others. Surely its only fitting that they be press ganged into the clean up of the mess they deny is even a problem.
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