Japanese media report the courts may be asked to disband the Unification church amid criticism of ruling party’s ties to organisation

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  • Frank [he/him, he/him]English
    47•8 months ago

    Most effective political assassination of the 21st century, hands down no contest.

    Moral of the story - If you’re going to do evil cult shit don’t scam people’s moms.

  • beef_curds [she/her]English
    22•8 months ago

    I want a bunch of morning show “concerning religious crackdowns in japan” segments out of this, like we used to get for falun gong in china.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]English
      12•8 months ago

      It would be funny, but cutting off the Moonies from a major market is probably more productive (even if Japan would only do it for racist reasons, the damage to a reactionary SK institution is good).

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]English
    21•8 months ago

    I can only imagine the results he would have gotten if he had gotten to use that 9-barreled shotgun he had built

  • Barabas [he/him]English
    17•8 months ago

    This may be the most effective political assassination of all time. I guess he set his goals fairly low in fairness.

  • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]English
    16•8 months ago

    In regards to the “most successful assassination” stuff, IDK this seems like nothing to me. Really what they mean by “dissolving” the moonies is taking away their tax exempt status and they can only do that for Japan. It’s a South Korean church with a large American contingent so losing tax exempt status in Japan won’t mean much in the grand scheme of things. I mean, the other two organizations mentioned in the article as being “dissolved” by the Japanese government are still around (albeit under new aliases and/or government surveillance from what I can see.) Seems like it’s more about covering up an embarrassing political fiasco than actually addressing the problem.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]English
      10•8 months ago

      This sounds like Japanese politics in general. They shuffle some papers around after an embarrassing scandal, maybe change some minor beuracratic thing, and the whole purpose is to get everything out of the news immediately. It’s pure distilled “we hear you, you’re valid, anyway. Go back to work”