Japan
Bashing Glendale City Council
Comfort Women statue issue
The city of
Glendale, California through their elected leaders and City Manager, have decided
to let stand the perception their city supports Japan bashing and activity
engaged it this insidious behavior.
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| Glendale City Council Japan Bashing |
October 21,
2014 addressing the City Council and City Manager was this little man from Texas,
me. In my under three minute oration they
were informed the Comfort Women statue they approved in their city park is interpreted
in Japan as Japan bashing, illustrates disrespect, dishonor to the nation and
people of Japan.
My
suggestion for the City was to modify the inscription on the marble slab sitting
on the ground next to the Comfort Women statue.
The current slab memorializes Comfort Women for the Japanese Imperial
military from 1932 to 1945. In 2014 a new
group of South Korean Comfort Women came public stating they were forced into serving
as Comfort Women by the South Korean military for the U.S. military from 1950
to around the 1980’s or early 1990’s.
The
suggestion was to add this new group of Comfort Women to the inscription on that
marble slab thereby illustrating that statue was not
intended to bash Japan but to memorialize all Comfort Women. It would also demonstrate consistency by the City
Council.
This was during
their “oral communications” part of the City Council meeting. Items discussed during this portion are referred
to the City Manage for further consideration.
A few weeks after the meeting I wrote Mr. Scott Ochoa, their city
manager asking if any consideration was given to my suggestion.
Some days
later Mr. Dan Bell, Community Relations Coordinator, wrote me on behalf of the
City the following:
“Regarding
your question to Glendale City Manager Scott Ochoa the City has no plans to
make any amendments to the Comfort Women Monument.”
Meaning the
City of Glendale, California is contented with the perception their city is
engaging in the demonstrably ugly activity of Japan bashing.
Now it is
time for the people of Japan to participate in this venture. The City of Glendale enjoys a sister-city
relationship with the Japanese city of Higashiosaka. This city is located in the Osaka Prefecture. People in Japan, specifically in the Osaka
Prefecture, may want to consider attending a Higashiosaka City Council meeting
and inform them of the Japan Bashing approved by their sister-city in Glendale,
California. Urging a revocation of this
sister-city relationship would send a strong signal to the City Council of
Glendale, California.
This little
man sitting on the lone prairie in Texas (me) has now passed the mantle to the good
people of Japan to defend their honor and respect.
Link to
video of the address to the Glendale City Council:
Link to
articles in reference to Comfort Women from 1950 through 1992:
http://iamkoream.com/comfort-women-for-u-s-military-sue-south-korean-government/
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| Glendale Japan Bashing |
Link to
article from the Mayor of Higashiosaka, Japan to the Glendale, California
mayor:
List of
Glendale, California's sister cities:
City of Glendale's
document concerning sister city funding, see page two, next to the last
paragraph:
Link to 1944
U.S. Army document (report number 49) stating comfort women were well-paid
prostitutes:
Link to
Texas Daddy store:
2 comments:
A folk self-body super-head is strange in Korea.
What next? Are you going to be saying that the Japanese atrocities of Unit 731, the Rape of Nanking, the Bataan death march, and all the others did not occur! You're too young to have been around in WW2, but surely your father was around. Did he fight against the Axis, or did he support them? Is that how you learned to be a traitor?
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