Speaker 1: Welcome to it could happen here a podcast that, for
Speaker 1: the first time ever is being recorded on an earth
Speaker 1: that I no longer have to share with that fascist
Speaker 1: rap bass or chinzawabe and with with me, with me
Speaker 1: to celebrate this occasion is Garrison Davis. Hi, hello and James,
Speaker 1: have have we actually have we like introduced you? Introduced you?
Speaker 1: Yet I didn't think so. No, I just pop up
Speaker 1: talking about three D printed guns and people who hate butterflies. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is this is truly a dark day for democracy.
Speaker 1: I'm saddened by the horrible loss of a great leader. Um,
Speaker 1: A hero to feminism and women. Um. And I guess
Speaker 1: a hero to those who defend war crimes. So I
Speaker 1: guess before before before wefore we get into one of
Speaker 1: the funniest things that's happened in maybe twenty years. Um.
Speaker 1: You do you want to like talk about who you are?
Speaker 1: Because you are now one of us and I'm very
Speaker 1: excited about it. Yeah, I'm one of Yeah, I'm now
Speaker 1: a podcast Yeah. Um? So who I am? I am
Speaker 1: a journalist, I guess, uh, and a historian and I
Speaker 1: wrote a book about the first week of the Spanish
Speaker 1: Civil War and my PhD is in the history of
Speaker 1: international anti fascism, building international anti fascist alliances through physical culture,
Speaker 1: which is very nerdy, but yeah, I love that stuff.
Speaker 1: What else? I'm British if that had not been made
Speaker 1: abundantly clear by my accent, and I live in southern California,
Speaker 1: which means this is a Now, this episode is a
Speaker 1: majority Commonwealth episode. Really exciting. We made it? Yeah, well
Speaker 1: we do in the national anthem in a minute here
Speaker 1: and we'll all just stand up. Uh so, ex Prime
Speaker 1: Minister kind of he's not around anymore, is he? No?
Speaker 1: He is dead as fuck? So all right we should
Speaker 1: I guess I guess we should explain who Shenzo Abe is. Yeah, um, okay,
Speaker 1: if if you want a really really long account of
Speaker 1: what the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party is, because they are
Speaker 1: some of the worst people who've ever existed democratic, how
Speaker 1: can this be? So? The very short version of this
Speaker 1: is that the Liberal Democratic Party is a party that
Speaker 1: was founded by Nobusuke Kishi, who is one of history's
Speaker 1: worst war criminals, person like personally responsible for enslaving hundreds
Speaker 1: of thousands of people in China. Uh he's the guy
Speaker 1: who basically he's the guy who was in charge of
Speaker 1: the economy of the fascist war machine, like like in
Speaker 1: Japanjua War two. He was the guy who ran like
Speaker 1: the sort of fascist puppet state called Manchuqua that was
Speaker 1: run by Japan after they conquered it. Uh. Real war criminal.
Speaker 1: Also just like personally raped a like extremely large number
Speaker 1: of people. I think that, like I was almost never
Speaker 1: discussed when people talk about him, almost like like a
Speaker 1: shockingly high white number. Yeah. It's of sex crimes, it's wild. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And he's also I mean, he's involved with the Japanese
Speaker 1: military sex slave program, which you were here referred to
Speaker 1: as comfort women, and I refused to call the comfort
Speaker 1: women because that is a fucking horrifying euphemism for again,
Speaker 1: a program of military sex slavery. Uh. He also was
Speaker 1: one of the people who signed off on Unit seven
Speaker 1: thirty one, which was Japan's chemical weapons testing unit where
Speaker 1: they fucking like purposely infested, infected and tested chemical weapons
Speaker 1: on prisoners. Uh. Yeah, he's one of the worst people ever.
Speaker 1: And then he got a bunch of CIA backing and
Speaker 1: so backing from the y Aakasa because the CIA is
Speaker 1: working with the yakuza on early uh fifty Japan and
Speaker 1: she's a will basically to force all of the other
Speaker 1: conservative like people to join his party, and the sort
Speaker 1: of the merger of the of the Liberal Party, Liberal
Speaker 1: Party and the Democratic Party is now the Liberal Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: This is Keishi's party. He founded it, he drags everyone
Speaker 1: else into it. He does an immense amount of corruption.
Speaker 1: He tries to bring fascism back. He narrowly fails. Shinzo
Speaker 1: Abe is his grandson. Uh the LDP Liberal Democratic Party,
Speaker 1: Yeah has Yeah, it sucks. It's like like nothing. The
Speaker 1: way that I've been thinking about, like how do you
Speaker 1: explain this to people who don't who don't have like
Speaker 1: a background in like Japanese like war crime stuff is
Speaker 1: like imagine if like one of Hitler's generals had like
Speaker 1: survived World War Two and then the CIA made him
Speaker 1: made him the prime Minister of Germany and then and
Speaker 1: he got more fascist because people were saying mean things
Speaker 1: about his grandpa. He's like, oh, I don't like that
Speaker 1: they're calling him bad names. I'm going to get more
Speaker 1: fascist now, so like ill be abbe himself. He's car
Speaker 1: He's been carrying out a lot of the same things
Speaker 1: that that she was trying to do. Kishi was trying
Speaker 1: to sort of restore the sort of full fascist power
Speaker 1: of the police. Abe has been doing a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of shifts of centralizing power in the executive and spatting
Speaker 1: the police's power should just arrest whoever the funk they want.
Speaker 1: Um So. One of one of the other things about
Speaker 1: Japan is that like legally in their constitution they can't
Speaker 1: go to war, and like both Kishi and Abbe like
Speaker 1: this is like they're big fucking things that they want.
Speaker 1: They want to fully rearm Japan. They want Japan be
Speaker 1: able to go to war because they want to do
Speaker 1: the fucking empire again. And you know, so this has led. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Abe has been doing that. Um He also the thing
Speaker 1: he's probably most famous for in terms of like the
Speaker 1: reasons people think he's bad because he is he's like
Speaker 1: just actually a monster. Is he's just like a like
Speaker 1: unfathomable degree of war crime denial like he he pulled
Speaker 1: so Japan in the nineties had admitted that they fucking
Speaker 1: kidnapped and enslaved like an enormous number of people from
Speaker 1: of people from Korea, people from China, and I think
Speaker 1: they also did they did in the Philippines and Indonesia too,
Speaker 1: although there's less sort of coverage of that, and like
Speaker 1: turn them into military sex slaves, did things to them
Speaker 1: that are like, I fucking unspeakable. Um And so the
Speaker 1: Japanese government the nineties had admitted they did this and
Speaker 1: apologized for it, and Abe was like, no, funk that
Speaker 1: that's that's wrong. He's also a part of this group
Speaker 1: called Niponka guy, which is like a fascist group. And okay,
Speaker 1: so this is this is this is according to a
Speaker 1: US congressional report, what they believe quote Japan should be
Speaker 1: applauded for liberating musch of East Asia from western colonial powers,
Speaker 1: that the Night Tokyo War crivate stripe units were illegitimate,
Speaker 1: and that the killings by Japanese troops through the nineteen
Speaker 1: thirties seven Nujing Massacre were exaggerated or fabricated. Oh boy.
Speaker 1: They also openly yeah, yeah, yeah. They they also saw
Speaker 1: the nudging denialists. They're they're they're sex slave denialists. They
Speaker 1: openly call for the restoration of the monarchy and the
Speaker 1: institution of Shinto as a state religion. Umb Like ab
Speaker 1: Like has continuously said that the sex slave like did
Speaker 1: it were like did were there voluntarily? Does another thing
Speaker 1: that but but but but Hillary Clinton just tweated that
Speaker 1: Pregns was a champion of democracy and a firm believer
Speaker 1: that no economy, society, country because achieve its full potential
Speaker 1: if you leave women behind. Why you know, she to
Speaker 1: be fair, to be fair, to be fair, both Abbe
Speaker 1: and nobody. She did in fact believe in using women
Speaker 1: to fuel the economy, just not in that way. He also,
Speaker 1: there's there's neverthing that so probably these most like famous
Speaker 1: most controversial thing was So there's the shrine called the
Speaker 1: um Yasukuni Shrine, which is is the shrine is dedicated
Speaker 1: to soldiers who like died serving the Japanese emperor and
Speaker 1: in in this so there's this thing called the Book
Speaker 1: of Souls that has like lists of names right of
Speaker 1: just like the other people who died, and a thousand
Speaker 1: sixty eight of the people who were of the people
Speaker 1: in that book are people who were who were convicted
Speaker 1: of war crimes. And there are also at fourteen Class
Speaker 1: A war criminals who either died or were executed who
Speaker 1: are considered martyrs. There and Abde fucking like visited there
Speaker 1: and like braid and ship and this piste off everyone.
Speaker 1: And I mean this is like there are lots of
Speaker 1: people who have gotten mad and me already for celebrating
Speaker 1: Abby's death and my, my, my, My official line on
Speaker 1: this is, if Ab didn't want me to celebrate his
Speaker 1: fucking death, maybe he shouldn't have celebrated the lives of
Speaker 1: the people who killed my fucking family, So fuck them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he's not not not a great dude. The real
Speaker 1: pack and automatic the every thing we should mention too
Speaker 1: before we go into sort of like the details of
Speaker 1: the shooting is that there is an election actually but
Speaker 1: but but by the time this episode drops, I think
Speaker 1: the election will have happened, um, where there is a
Speaker 1: real chance that the Liberal Democratic Party is going to
Speaker 1: sort of lie just fucking sweep it. Because Liberal Democratic
Speaker 1: Party immediately starts to blame me the left for this. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's a whole bunch of I mean just absolutely horrifying
Speaker 1: stuff where they're blaming Korean people who live in live
Speaker 1: in Japan, which if you know anything about Japanese history,
Speaker 1: when that stuff starts happening like in in In after
Speaker 1: the Canto earthquake, h a bunch of people just started
Speaker 1: blaming Koreans for the whole thing, and they fucking literally
Speaker 1: exterminated almost the entire Korean population in several major Japanese cities.
Speaker 1: And so this stuff is very scary. Uh, It's possible
Speaker 1: that this is going to set off like an incredible
Speaker 1: right wing lrici of Japanese politics, and there's a chance
Speaker 1: that this, this this could be the actual thing that
Speaker 1: like full on triggers Japan like we are being and
Speaker 1: you know, going back into sort of just being a
Speaker 1: pure fascist empire. So this is not Yeah, that that
Speaker 1: part is really bad. The motivation for the assassination is still,
Speaker 1: at least at time of recording, still slightly unclear, very unclear.
Speaker 1: According according to some politics Asians and news media, we
Speaker 1: do know the suspect is Hyo Kojima, that you can
Speaker 1: you can infer a little bit fased on. So yeah,
Speaker 1: there's there's like French politicians and a Greek news channel
Speaker 1: who are using pictures of video developer Hideo Kojima and
Speaker 1: passing them off as the shooting suspect, which is really funny.
Speaker 1: It is funny pictures of Kachima like inside like a
Speaker 1: Russian like communist hat fucking thing, pictures of him wearing
Speaker 1: a joker shirt and standing in front of a Jacobara picture,
Speaker 1: and they're using this as proof that it's via left
Speaker 1: wing terrorist and it's actually video game developer Kojiba. It's yeah, So, like,
Speaker 1: I guess what we know about the actual shooter, Um,
Speaker 1: we don't know that much. Is a forty two year
Speaker 1: old guy who was a former veteran of the of
Speaker 1: the Japanese Self Defense Force. He was he was a
Speaker 1: Navy guy, which I guess partially explains why he can
Speaker 1: shoot a gun. Um, but yeah, the details are really murky.
Speaker 1: What we've got at time of recording is the Japanese
Speaker 1: police saying that it wasn't because of a political thing,
Speaker 1: and that it was because of a group that he
Speaker 1: was that I was a member of. Who the funk
Speaker 1: knows what that means. That can mean any number of things.
Speaker 1: I I'm not going to speculate live on here because
Speaker 1: I I don't know. Yeah, but also it was extremely
Speaker 1: funny and we should we should talk about the weapon
Speaker 1: that was Yeah, this is why this is one of
Speaker 1: the reasons why it's extremely funny, and we we should
Speaker 1: probably gonna hands over to James because James is a
Speaker 1: bit a bit more of an expert in this type
Speaker 1: of uh D I Y weapon rate of So what
Speaker 1: what the fund is going on with this home made gun? Yeah?
Speaker 1: This ship, Yeah, this ship is fucking this ship. This
Speaker 1: is crazy. Um yeah, it's extremely funny. It's extremely funny
Speaker 1: that all these people with fifty thou followers on Twitter
Speaker 1: who quote and quote do ocean like immediately label this
Speaker 1: is a three D printed gun, which is not. It
Speaker 1: does not look this gun is being held together with
Speaker 1: duct tape like that. That is that. That is the
Speaker 1: kind of weapon that we're dealing with you. This is
Speaker 1: this is a homemade gun, like held together with fucking
Speaker 1: duct tape. It is extremely It is like he got
Speaker 1: blowed up by an electric blunderbuss. It is. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: there could very well be three D printed parts in
Speaker 1: like around it. But it is. But it's not. It's
Speaker 1: not looking. It's it's it's not like it's not like
Speaker 1: an f DC nine or anything. Um, it's it's a
Speaker 1: weird like electronic pipe duct taped together shotgun. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: I think perhaps if people don't understand, we should like
Speaker 1: break down how firearms work broadly and and how this
Speaker 1: one works specifically, right, So, like, and there's no reason
Speaker 1: why you should be familiar with this, but like you
Speaker 1: need something to explode, something to make it explode, and
Speaker 1: something to go at the end, and a way to
Speaker 1: make sure it only goes in one direction. Right. Uh.
Speaker 1: So what this character has done is seemingly it's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like a blunderbuss or a musket in that it
Speaker 1: seems to be like muzzle loaded from the front. Uh.
Speaker 1: And uh, I'm looking at it now and it really
Speaker 1: is just covered in duct tape. I tweeted a picture
Speaker 1: of it. It's a gay. Yeah, this ship is is
Speaker 1: very old fashioned. He seems to have made his own
Speaker 1: powder to like it was very very smoky, which you
Speaker 1: can do. I'm not gonna tell you how to do it,
Speaker 1: but it's the thing that is possible. And so essentially
Speaker 1: from what I'm seeing here, it looks like it's like
Speaker 1: a piso electric ignition which then ignites this homemade powder
Speaker 1: that he had. Uh. And then he's put something in
Speaker 1: a shotgun means it doesn't have rifling, right, so it
Speaker 1: doesn't imparts been on the projectile. So he's basically got
Speaker 1: two pipes a pierzo electric ignitis, some homemade powder, and
Speaker 1: then he could have put nails in there. He could
Speaker 1: have put a castlet ball, anything, bolts, And this wasn't
Speaker 1: the only homemade weapon he had. The police rated his house.
Speaker 1: He had a whole bunch of supplies that looks it
Speaker 1: looks out of like it looks like it's out of
Speaker 1: like fallout or something. It is like there was one
Speaker 1: like blunderbust that had nine different barrels, all duct tapes together.
Speaker 1: It's like exposed wiring, exposed circuit boards, like it's it's
Speaker 1: like it's extremely JANKI yeah, it's like I'm not entirely
Speaker 1: sure that the nine barrel one the central barrel isn't
Speaker 1: touched by the by the structural duct tape, and I'm
Speaker 1: not sure that it wouldn't have moved in one direction
Speaker 1: or the other when he fired it. In Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that's a that's like a yoga. I can't he's
Speaker 1: put something on the He's made a butt stock with
Speaker 1: that one, so like he can be shoulder it, I guess.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if that's like a piece of
Speaker 1: tire or what. But yeah, yeah, this is not a
Speaker 1: precision weapon. Wooden boards. There's like some type of like
Speaker 1: reflect It looks almost like a smartphone's attached to some
Speaker 1: of the wiring, or like there's something reflective screen that
Speaker 1: looks like it's like like an electronic control box, which
Speaker 1: could could just be like an old smartphone or something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wondered if he could, because that's what you use
Speaker 1: for for an improvised explosive device, right, it's a it's
Speaker 1: a cell phone to actuate it. So it could be
Speaker 1: maybe he had a plan to just put it near
Speaker 1: where are they was going to be and then call
Speaker 1: it and then that would be well, I mean, this
Speaker 1: is a this is a much better assassinated it has
Speaker 1: the stock, So I'm guessing. I'm guessing would he beginning
Speaker 1: to hold it because otherwise there's no reason to put
Speaker 1: the butt stock there? Yeah, but who knows, Like this
Speaker 1: guy is operating on a different level. We have no
Speaker 1: way to know what he was saying gig at least
Speaker 1: at least at least not at the moment. What he
Speaker 1: was thinking was I want to kill shinzo Abe with
Speaker 1: my pipes and planks. He did it. He's exactly whatever
Speaker 1: you think of him. This man didn't successfully kill Shenzo
Speaker 1: Abbe with a gun held together by duct tape. It's
Speaker 1: it's pretty impressive, Like I think the everything about this
Speaker 1: is kind of impressive. Is a he so so he
Speaker 1: there were there were two barrels on it that each fired,
Speaker 1: and he managed to hit him from like a pretty
Speaker 1: good distance away. Like we don't have there's there's no
Speaker 1: video that directly well at least not that's out yet
Speaker 1: that's like directly shows the shooting. We have a lot
Speaker 1: of video because ib is giving a speech, right, so
Speaker 1: we have a bunch of video of like filming Abbe
Speaker 1: and it's and because of where it is coming from
Speaker 1: off screen, like that was a pretty good distance. And
Speaker 1: as best I can tell, he only hit Abbe. I
Speaker 1: don't I don't think. I haven't seen any reports of
Speaker 1: anyone else getting hit. So I yeah, impressed. That is
Speaker 1: Actually that is actually kind of slightly surprising. Yeah, there was,
Speaker 1: there was no one else hit. It's like he just
Speaker 1: got the guy he was. It's like that that that
Speaker 1: is genuinely pretty rare, and assassinations like like basically like
Speaker 1: a homemade blunderbust cannon was like surprisingly surprisingly controlled that accurate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just found a picture of it with the Cyberpunkies
Speaker 1: seven logo underneath you, which is pretty great. Yeah, that's rule.
Speaker 1: Yeah he did manage to cause it kind of just
Speaker 1: put like a large, massive lead ball in it, I guess,
Speaker 1: and yeah, whatever, because I don't think it. I don't
Speaker 1: think it was one thing. So that one of the
Speaker 1: one thing I could say about the that we guys
Speaker 1: we know about the EMMA was that like there they
Speaker 1: were like a bunch of like they're they're one of
Speaker 1: the much of the reports about the injuries that he suffered.
Speaker 1: We're talking about like he got hit in the back,
Speaker 1: but they're also holes in his neck. So my guess
Speaker 1: from a lot of there's a lot of blood from
Speaker 1: a lot of different places. Yeah, I guess there wasn't
Speaker 1: one thing then, But I don't know. Everything that is
Speaker 1: kind of interest about this is like the extent to
Speaker 1: which Okay, so like he was like it was like
Speaker 1: very clearly dead, like people people had like reported him
Speaker 1: at the scene is having no vitals and they were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: his heart stopped and they helicoptered at him to like
Speaker 1: what Tokyo, Yeah, tokyo. But the Japanese government did a
Speaker 1: very good job of making sure the press had like
Speaker 1: no information, and so there was just like there was
Speaker 1: like many many many hours where they were like pretending
Speaker 1: that he wasn't dead and like wouldn't confirm that he
Speaker 1: was dead. And he's like this, this man is clearly
Speaker 1: dead as ship. Like he has gotten blown up by
Speaker 1: a blunderbus like in the back. His next gone. He's like,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's not not gone like his his next
Speaker 1: his next been shot. His heart is stopped and they
Speaker 1: just sort of like keep it there for for a
Speaker 1: pretty impressively long long time. And that's the only thing
Speaker 1: we we know very little about what happened and why. Um,
Speaker 1: the press has been keeping the government's be keeping a
Speaker 1: very tight lid on information about the shooting so far. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess we want to pivot into the gun control
Speaker 1: side of this. Um, I guess. Okay, So the I
Speaker 1: mean like there was a mayor shot a few years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just Yaka is a guy shot the mayor of Nagasaki,
Speaker 1: so like, and like there's a there's been a lot
Speaker 1: of people like journalists and people who are like supposedly
Speaker 1: japan experts who are like, oh, this is really rare
Speaker 1: in Japanese culture is like no, it's not people get assassinated,
Speaker 1: like like the Japan has a very low rate of
Speaker 1: gun violence, but of that gun violence and the number
Speaker 1: of politicians going to get asassinated it is like unbelievably high.
Speaker 1: And you know, I mean like that there have been there,
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of us. I mean like Abe's
Speaker 1: like grandfather, it was a yakishi like got stabbed right
Speaker 1: after we left office, like and he only didn't die
Speaker 1: because the guy who stabbed him claimed that he wasn't
Speaker 1: trying to kill him, he was just stabbing him, which
Speaker 1: is one of the weirdest things I've ever heard. Like
Speaker 1: I don't know, I suspect some yaks of bullshit was
Speaker 1: going on there. But yeah, like Japan has assassinations. Um it.
Speaker 1: There's there's this weird thing where people think Japan is
Speaker 1: this place that's like like no violence happens, like it's
Speaker 1: a completely orderly society. It's like all this all this
Speaker 1: like weird stuff famously past Japan. Yeah, it's like like
Speaker 1: this this is a country, like this is a country
Speaker 1: where people like like even in like the seventies and
Speaker 1: like if through the eighties, people would charge like rb
Speaker 1: convoys with sticks and like fight them. Like. This is
Speaker 1: a country that like like people, they have a sort
Speaker 1: of ape ship switch that just like, Yeah, they have
Speaker 1: their fair share of like cults that do acts of
Speaker 1: violence like this, fair share of political streamists that do
Speaker 1: as violence like this, and like everywhere else in like
Speaker 1: like everywhere else in the world, stuff just happens sometimes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it is interesting that like Japan has extremely
Speaker 1: strict gun control, right, like licenses, test background checks, prohibitions
Speaker 1: on most people learning and carrying. But like it's kind
Speaker 1: of interesting that this is more of a like a
Speaker 1: First Amendment question, I guess in American terms, right, Like,
Speaker 1: if you're on the internet enough, I'm sure it looks
Speaker 1: like this person has just googled how to make gun
Speaker 1: and like this is what came up. And so I
Speaker 1: think it's kind of fascinating that that this person has
Speaker 1: been like aside from their possible connection to any criminal networks,
Speaker 1: but like, I know the Yakuza were selling guns to
Speaker 1: people in me and Mark pretty recently, so they have
Speaker 1: access to this. Yeah, and like the mayor who got
Speaker 1: whacked by yaks, a guy like if the Arkansas is
Speaker 1: going to do like, I don't know if yours is
Speaker 1: going to do a killing like they like they they
Speaker 1: have access to web, they would use a real gun,
Speaker 1: were abductive together. Okay, so like probably, but also like
Speaker 1: I wouldn't completely rule it out because I wouldn't rule
Speaker 1: out them just finding some guy and doing this thing
Speaker 1: the FBI does and it's like, hey, you're gonna go
Speaker 1: do an attack now, Like it wouldn't. It wouldn't surprise
Speaker 1: me if if they did that as like a plusable
Speaker 1: an ideally thing, but like we don't know. Um, I
Speaker 1: still don't think we can rule out that head out.
Speaker 1: Kajima is the mastermind behind this, um and it's all
Speaker 1: I know, right, it's it's just employed to play his
Speaker 1: next game. UM, just have to add a few like
Speaker 1: nonsense names to the all the all the people involved,
Speaker 1: like Blunderbustman, and then it's just it's it's easy, easy.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's fascinating that this person was seemingly like
Speaker 1: maybe had other plans or had tried several other like
Speaker 1: craft firearms, and settled on this one. But yeah, they
Speaker 1: have access to a lot of pipes, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: M did you guys see the yuk as a guy
Speaker 1: who was arms dealing to me and Ma. No no
Speaker 1: oh for fucking wild. So he was like extensively stung
Speaker 1: by the Feds. To this guy, he was yuck as
Speaker 1: a He was part of it like a ongoing sting
Speaker 1: operation for like several years where he was selling like
Speaker 1: basically like trading guns for drugs, trading guns to buy drugs.
Speaker 1: He was selling to a couple of groups in Me
Speaker 1: and Ma. He was two groups in like the Tamil
Speaker 1: region and a couple of other people and he uh,
Speaker 1: he was at least one of the people he thought
Speaker 1: was a buyer was actually a fed And they've captured
Speaker 1: all of these amazing conversations where they call the guns
Speaker 1: like cake and ice cream. Like one of the one
Speaker 1: of the things in the in the criminal complaint, it's
Speaker 1: a picture of him just with like a a law
Speaker 1: like an anti tank weapon and he's just like giving
Speaker 1: it like the V sign, and he's wearing these like
Speaker 1: yellow aviators and a leather jacket. Like. The way they
Speaker 1: arrested him was at a steakhouse I think either in
Speaker 1: New York or New Jersey, but like they lured him
Speaker 1: into a steakhouse meeting and then he got busted by
Speaker 1: the FEDS. But yeah, these guys were trafficking like serious
Speaker 1: stuff like surface to our missiles some things. They have
Speaker 1: access to some pretty heavy equipment. Yeah, that's a that's
Speaker 1: a pretty old Like the octicer has been sort of
Speaker 1: like I don't know how you describe it, like a
Speaker 1: kind of like para arm of the Japanese state in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways for a very very long time.
Speaker 1: Like there are there have been like the acts of
Speaker 1: people with basically special forces training. Um, they they at
Speaker 1: one point like kidnapped and killed the Empress of Korea
Speaker 1: as part of like a thing to like justify starting
Speaker 1: a war. So they are they're very well hooked up.
Speaker 1: I I I don't know, it's still unclear to be
Speaker 1: because like that's the obviously everything again, like they're the
Speaker 1: LDP has a lot of Yakuza connections because kind of okay,
Speaker 1: partially kind of everything is, but partially also because the
Speaker 1: Accusa were like I sort of founding like political block
Speaker 1: of the l d P in the first place. So
Speaker 1: who knows, Like LDP people have gotten like attacked by
Speaker 1: Akas people before. It could be that it could be
Speaker 1: something else. We sort of just don't know yet. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's nothing identifying this guy. Like I'm just looking at
Speaker 1: a picture of him, and there's nothing particularly sort of
Speaker 1: identifying his clothing or anything like that. Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1: I guess that's the deficians of extremely critical support to
Speaker 1: Hideo Kajima and all of the other freedom fighters. Oh,
Speaker 1: I guess I guess we could talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about the international response to this, Yeah, because people have
Speaker 1: no idea what's ethnic. Yeah, I mean, like so like
Speaker 1: all the Americans are sorry of like are doing the
Speaker 1: all American liberals sort of doing like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: he was a good guy. It's like, no, he wasn't.
Speaker 1: This guy was a monster. Um okay, I will say this,
Speaker 1: both the Chinese and the Korean embassies are being surprisingly
Speaker 1: diplomatic about it, as in, no one they haven't no
Speaker 1: one has actively insulted him yet social media wise. Likely
Speaker 1: that's a good move for like inter country relationship. But like,
Speaker 1: I okay, like try Japanese relationships with Korea, with South
Speaker 1: Korea and North Korea are really bad, And a lot
Speaker 1: of the reason why they're really bad is specifically because
Speaker 1: of Chang Sawabe and because of all of his bullshit.
Speaker 1: They're happy, but they're not gonna like Rubb it. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's not clear to me that they wouldn't have
Speaker 1: done this if this had happened to like the two
Speaker 1: thou Tangs, Like these guys really hate each other. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's been some sort of like people people are trying
Speaker 1: to do a Taiwan angle on this because Obb is
Speaker 1: like a Taiwan supporter, But I don't Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: think there's actually that much. The Peo people want this
Speaker 1: to have much more geo political like significance than it
Speaker 1: probably actually will. Um yeah, yeah, well it's meantime. Yeah,
Speaker 1: fascist is dead. That's always funny. It happened Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: it did in fact happen here. Well it happened over there,
Speaker 1: but you know what I mean, Um, it could happen here. Sure,
Speaker 1: statistically we are we are about to do Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't need to to deductate model in America. No,
Speaker 1: with the amount of firearms here. It is kind of
Speaker 1: a little is sometimes a little surprising how little stuff
Speaker 1: like this actually happens. There's obviously a lot of work
Speaker 1: that goes into like preventing it, but but still sometimes
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of it's kind of shocking. Um yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I think, I think. I think if you look
Speaker 1: at the last twenty years, I think more Japanese politicians
Speaker 1: have been assassin to the American politicians. Like I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think of an American politician because because they do
Speaker 1: a lot more American politicians and a lot of guns
Speaker 1: they killed. They killed when they went after Gabby Giffordge
Speaker 1: they killed someone, I think. But yeah, I don't. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think of anyone else other than that, um
Speaker 1: not in recent memory. The guy who showed Reagan is
Speaker 1: now touring. Yeah, but he didn't even kill him. That's
Speaker 1: not even assassination. That's just an asassination attempts, like a
Speaker 1: very bouched one. Yeah. Yeah. Cross that crossover between John
Speaker 1: Hinckley and Hideo Kajima. It's possible that will be the game.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna keep referring to the suspect of Hideo Kajima.
Speaker 1: It's worth noting that like he did have armed God,
Speaker 1: so were um God's present that you can see their
Speaker 1: guns in their health series. They take down the person
Speaker 1: who shot him, but they they were not on their
Speaker 1: a game that day. Yeah, that you can see in
Speaker 1: the video there's like one of the guys I think,
Speaker 1: trying to like get a bulletproof briefcase in between Abbe
Speaker 1: and the guy and just doesn't work. It just it
Speaker 1: just it just fails completely. They had one job they
Speaker 1: didn't yeah, like the operation meat Shield. They weren't just on,
Speaker 1: they weren't just not on their A game. They completely
Speaker 1: failed that. They're over. Ye. Yes, it's not like the
Speaker 1: guy even tried to run away. He just like stood
Speaker 1: there and got arrested. Yeah. Yeah, he did not really
Speaker 1: put much of a did not put up much of
Speaker 1: a fight. Yeah, yeah, he know he didn't. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: he went down pretty fast. I guess he went with
Speaker 1: like this small again, maybe to conceal it, because it
Speaker 1: looks like he was pretty close. Yeah, that is that
Speaker 1: is very likely. Well, a very dark day for democracy, um,
Speaker 1: dark day for feminism um, as Hillary Clinton said, Uh anyway, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Luckily they have Rama Manual as ambassad to a pan
Speaker 1: to comfort them in its difficult the the the l
Speaker 1: d P are the only people on earth who does
Speaker 1: who actually deserve Rama Manual. So look, if if you
Speaker 1: if if you didn't want to have to deal with
Speaker 1: Rama manual. You should have taken all that's your money?
Speaker 1: Is this this is now their curse? Well, I'm sure
Speaker 1: we'll talk more about these types of homemade weapons and
Speaker 1: all that kind of kind of stuff in the future
Speaker 1: because it is. It is interesting, and you know, places
Speaker 1: where places where like actual firearms are hard are harder
Speaker 1: to get. We're seeing more and more ship like this
Speaker 1: popping up. Yeah. Yeah, and that'll that will definitely be
Speaker 1: worth be worth getting into along with three D printed weapons.
Speaker 1: All right, anything else to add? Does that? Does that?
Speaker 1: Does that? Do it? Yeah? I think that's a wrap.
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