Comment on Gunman pleads guilty to Japan ex-PM's murder

Lembot_0005@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sort of. Basically he felt like his life was ruined, so he decided to take revenge. By shooting Abe, he forced investigation into the Unification Church, which is what he wanted. However, unlike Luigi (who I’m assuming you’re talking about lol), Abe wasn’t the direct cause of the issue that affected him, the Church and its leadership was, so this is more like shooting a Scientologist or something who is in office because the Church of Scientology ruined your life.

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  • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Abe was by no means low down in the hierarchy though . He was very much complicit from a position of power. So while it isn’t the same as shooting the ceo, it shouldn’t be taken as shooting a random scientologist.

    And more importantly, it worked.

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    • arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Apparently his actual desired target was the president of the Unification Church and her entire family, but he found it too hard to kill them (I admittedly find it funny that the Church president was apparently better protected than the former prime minister).

      I frankly think it was more effective due to luck from what I’ve read. There’d have been less of an impact IMO if the LDP wasn’t so deeply in bed with the Unification Church. Still probably would’ve been investigations, but the LDP wouldn’t have felt so pressured to punish them.

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  • Lembot_0005@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Luigi

    Facepalm. Yes, of course.

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