OH – MY – GOD!

The Japanese Justice Minister has made a complete arse of himself. Once again, politicians (Japan, UK, USA….) just putting their foots in it.

From 20 November almost all foreign visitors and overseas workers will be photographed and fingerprinted as they enter the country.

So, after much criticism, the J-Govt decided it needed to explain why it was doing this.

“My friend’s friend is a member of al-Qaeda. I have never met him, but I heard that two or three years ago he came to Japan several times,” he told a press conference.

“The fact is that such foreign people can easily enter Japan. In terms of security, this is not a preferable situation.”

Right… so he knows there is a terrorist in Japan, and he hasn’t reported him to the police. This is meant to be justification for the introduction of fingerprinting of foreigners.
ROFL ROFL ROFL :) :) :) :)

Later, Mr Hatoyama cast doubt on all of these claims, saying he had been “unclear and misleading”.

What, so now he is saying he was misleading us. Bloody hell, dig yourself a deeper hole! :)

In further Japan related news:
Yet more dodgy dealings by Japanese Politicians!
Japan’s Dodgy Police System, when it comes to ‘beating’ a confession out of someone.

And finally…

I normally dislike AlJazeera TV, just as much as I dislike Fox News in the US.
But AlJazeera English TV News had two cracking videos on Peak Oil (hmmmm, I recognise the host, he used to be a BBC News Presenter).