How Japan’s “Stealth Constitution” Destroys Civil Rights and Sets the Stage for Dictatorship

If there was ever a clear sign that the leadership of Japan is fully aware that the country is about enter a terminal economic catastrophe this is it. Using the cover of currency devaluation and a rising stock market, Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, is attempting to make it easier to change the country’s constitution so that they can eliminate freedom of speech and set the stage for a military dictatorship.  Reuters reports that:

The draft deletes a guarantee of basic human rights and prescribes duties, such as submission to an undefined “public interest and public order.” The military would be empowered to maintain that “public order.”

This article will blow your mind.  Some key excerpts:  

(Reuters) – Shinzo Abe makes no secret of wanting to revise Japan’s constitution, which was drafted by the United States after World War Two, to formalize the country’s right to have a military – but critics say his plans go deeper and could return Japan to its socially conservative, authoritarian past.

Abe, 58, returned to office in December for a second term as prime minister and is enjoying sky-high support on the back of his “Abenomics” recipe for reviving the economy through hyper-easy monetary policy, big spending and structural reform.

However, sweeping changes proposed by Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in a draft constitution would strike at the heart of the charter with an assault on basic civil rights that could muzzle the media, undermine gender equality and generally open the door to an authoritarian state, activists and scholars say.

Abe’s grandfather Nobusuke Kishi was a pre-World War Two cabinet minister who was arrested but never tried as a war criminal. Kishi served as premier from 1957-60, when he resigned due to a furor over a U.S.-Japan Security Treaty.

If you’re like me, you may have to read the above paragraph twice.  Absolutely incredible.

“The real concern is that a couple of years later, we move to a redefinition of a ‘new Japan’ as an authoritarian, nationalist order,” said Yale University law professor Bruce Ackerman.

You can guarantee that will happen as soon as that country enters its final economic death spiral.

“The current constitution … provides protection for a long list of fundamental rights – freedom of expression, freedom of religion,” said Meiji University professor Lawrence Repeta. “It’s clear the leaders of the LDP and certain other politicians in Japan … are passionately against a system that protects individual rights to that degree.”

The draft deletes a guarantee of basic human rights and prescribes duties, such as submission to an undefined “public interest and public order”. The military would be empowered to maintain that “public order.”

Can they be any more clear about what they are trying to achieve?

One proposal would ban anyone from “improperly” acquiring or using information about individuals – a clause experts say could limit freedom of speech.

Under Article 96, changes to the constitution must be approved by at least two-thirds of both houses of parliament and then a majority of voters in a national referendum. Abe wants to require a simple majority of lawmakers before a public vote.

With Abe’s popularity high and the main opposition splintered, the LDP and smaller pro-revision parties appear to have a shot at winning a two-thirds majority in an upper house election in July. They already hold two-thirds of the lower house.

Let’s see, print money, make the stock market go up and keep people servile as you destroy the country and rip up the Constitution.  Sound familiar?

Figure this might be a good time to remember the following real ad encouraging people to buy Japanese Government Bonds.

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Oyasuminasai.

Full article here.

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Mike

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12 thoughts on “How Japan’s “Stealth Constitution” Destroys Civil Rights and Sets the Stage for Dictatorship”

  1. You got it all wrong, Mike, what Abe is doing is GOOD.

    The problem is DEMOCRACY which inevitably leads to financial collapse through parasitical groups feasting on productive people.

    An authoritarian government to restore law and order is THE SOLUTION, the natural reaction for SURVIVAL.

    The United States needs to do that. We need a coup d’etat as a reaction to the current problems created by socialists and plutocrats, to destroy DEMOCRACY.
    By the way, both socialists and plutocrats have atheistic liberal Jews and socialist British-Americans, who reject Natural Law, the foundation of the US Declaration of Independence, but believe in Marxist Central Banking and artificial money, artificial ideas, artificially re-engineered society, all unnatural and against human nature, to make populations slave to vice, greed, lust and easier for elites to control, exploit and extract economic rents through government.

    No, this is NOT to destroy the Constitution. The Constitution is not being followed at all anyhow. Why do you defend a system that you know is not Constitutional today anyhow?

    This is needed to RESTORE the Constitution and restore a REPUBLIC, which is incompatible with the current kleptocratic system of plutocratic socialism based on a mobocracry (democracy).

    More and more, normal average hard-working productive Americans (not the parasites in the Elite and the mobs of parasites living off government) will have no stake in this system, and welcome an authoritarian system to stop this crap.

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