Friday, July 17, 2015

Shinzo Abe Get's His Sercurity Blanket: Japanes Public Totally Against It

Shinzo Abe's dream has come true.  At least as his delusional self see's it when the Lower House of the Japanese Parliament passed  legislation giving the government the right to send Japanese military forces into armed conflict in support of the United States.  This despite the Japanese public's opposition, constitutional scholars stating that the legislation as passed is in contravention of the Constitution's Article  9  which clearly states that Japanese military forces are prohibited from involvement in armed conflict outside of Japanese territory and that any revisions to the constitution requires a referendum to be voted on by those eligible.      None of which has taken place: Shinzo Abe and his ruling Liberal Democratic Party took these actions unilaterally.  

Abe's grandfather Prime Minister Kishi was forced to resign when he forced through similar legislation in 1960 which constitutes the current Japan-U.S. Security Treaty.  

China has warned Japan against “crippling regional peace and security” after the lower house of parliament in Tokyo passed bills to allow Japanese troops to fight abroad for the first time since the second world war.
The two bills were passed despite widespread popular opposition and questions over their constitutionality. Opposition parties staged a walkout in protest before the vote, while tens of thousands of protesters demonstrated outside parliament. But, with the governing Liberal Democratic party (LDP) controlling two-thirds of the seats, the outcome was never in doubt.
The legislation, part of a long-running bid by the prime minister, Shinzo Abe, to reinterpret Japan’s US-authored pacifist postwar constitution, now has to go before the upper house, where the LDP and its allies are also in the majority. It will have 60 days to vote but if the upper house rejects the bills, it can be overridden by the lower house. Opposition parties, deeply attached to the doctrine of collective self-defence, are planning legal challenges.





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