JM : La loi sur la protection des secrets dEtat au Japon (qui sera certainement entérinée par le Parlement autour du 6 décembre -- peut-être avant) concerne directement Fukushima et les autres centrales nucléaires car la sécurité des centrales sera désormais un secret dEtat. Une lourde chape de plomb tombera sur le Japon si cette loi est adoptée. UNE MAJORITE DE JAPONAIS SOPPOSENT A LA LOI SUR LA PROTECTION DES SECRETS DETAT. IL Y A DES MANIFESTATIONS UN PEU PARTOUT DANS LE PAYS..... OUF!... bien que je ne sois pas sûre quils puissent se faire entendre, .....cest dramatique...... Survey: Majority of Japanese outraged over state secrets protection bill A majority of Japanese view the state secrets protection bill that the Abe administration is trying to ram through the Lower House with distrust and anger, according to a government survey. The central government asked for public comment on the bill before the legislation was submitted to the Diet, and a two-page summary titled Main opinions revealed that close to 80 percent of the comments submitted expressed opposition to the stricter measures to protect state secrets. The discussions to revise the bill are a joke, said Sohachi Kokaku, a 65-year-old Christian minister in Osaka. There has been no discussion on the fundamental issue of whether the peoples right to know will be protected. Kokaku submitted a view opposed to the legislation after reading a summary of its contents on the governments website about two months ago. He fears that enactment of the bill into law could result in people being arrested without knowing why. What stirred his concerns were memories of what happened under the Peace Preservation Law enacted before the end of World War II. Designed to suppress political dissent, the law was used to arrest Christian priests without explanation. The view among analysts is that once the state secrets protection law takes effect, specific secrets would not likely be publicized in arrest warrants, indictments or even court verdicts. That is why some experts have raised concerns about the similarities to the prewar Peace Preservation Law. Kokaku heard that ministers who had been arrested under the Peace Preservation Law were accused of being disloyal to the emperor because their ultimate allegiance was to God. When the national flag and national anthem law was passed, the government said it would never force anyone to honor those symbols, Kokaku said. However, teachers who do not sing the Kimigayo (national anthem) are now being disciplined. Masayuki Naito, a 57-year-old cabdriver, submitted an opinion opposed to the legislation because he felt it would suppress people from freely expressing their opinions in bars and izakaya. Provisions in the legislation that were particularly galling to Naito were those that allowed the government to freely define what would be state secrets as well as those that left open the possibility of punishing those who tried to exercise their right to know. I would not even be able to talk with my customers if I thought there might be some connection to state secrets during the course of the conversation, Naito said. Under the Administrative Procedure Law, the government can seek public comment on Cabinet and ministerial orders. A period of at least 30 days has to be set aside for accepting comments, and the government is also required to take the comments seriously. For bills, the government can freely decide which ones it wants public comment on. In 2006, public comment was sought on reasons to allow lay judges to turn down duty obligations. In 2011, comment was sought on how to appraise the effects of radiation on food and health. In both cases, more than 30 days were set aside for accepting comments. The law on lay judges received 38 opinions, while the one for food and health received 3,089. However, for the state secrets protection bill, the government accepted opinions for only 15 days. Despite the shorter period, a whopping 90,480 opinions were submitted, with 69,579, or 77 percent of the total, opposed. The two-page summary released by the central government released the numbers and several comments. No effort has been made to release the total picture of the comments submitted. Although the comments collected do not have any legal binding authority, opposing views reaching 80 percent is not a figure that can be simply ignored, said Shigetoshi Takeuchi, a lawyer with the Kumamoto Bar Association who is knowledgeable about administrative law. It would be an outrage to pass the legislation through the Lower House. The government should retract the bill and make an effort to hear the voices of the people. ajw.asahi/article/behind_news/politics/AJ201311230044
Posted on: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 12:40:22 +0000
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