In a lawsuit filed by N Country seeking damages from a poster on X (formerly Twitter) who described the Party to Protect the People from NHK (headed by Tachibana Takashi) as an “anti-social cult group,” the Tokyo District Court (Judge Abe Masahiko presiding) on the 27th handed down a ruling dismissing N Country’s claim. The post in question was by “Election Watcher Chidai (real name: Ishiwata Tomohiro),” who has written a book about N Country. In June of this year, he posted on his x account, “The Party to Protect the People from NHK is an anti-social cult group,” and in a streaming video he said about NHK Country, “It’s like Aum, the group that spreads sarin gas.” The ruling pointed out that the following were true: Tachibana had previously been found guilty of obstructing NHK’s operations, etc.; he started a service that receives NHK reception fee bills on behalf of viewers, making it easier for them to not pay; he said at a party executive meeting that “we want to sell ourselves as a political party that does not obey the law”; and he made a statement on a video-sharing site that “Let’s start by genociding the ethnic group that stupidly gives birth to children.” The court dismissed N Country’s complaint, stating that expressions such as “anti-social cult group” “do not go beyond the scope of commentary.” (Takuro Negishi) ●Comments regarding this summer’s Tokyo gubernatorial election According to the ruling, the Party to Protect the People from NHK (NHK Party) fielded 24 candidates in the Tokyo gubernatorial election held in June and July 2024. In relation to this, in June 2024, Chidai made the following posts and statements on x (formerly Twitter) and a video distribution site. ＜Some say the guru is a religious leader, while others say he is a monk or a follower, but these guys can’t tell right from wrong. It’s almost the same as Aum, which didn’t release sarin. The gist of it is that they don’t have the knowledge or intelligence to release sarin, so they’re like Aum, who doesn’t release sarin. There’s no doubt that N-Koku is a group of dangerous people. > In response to Chidai’s posts and comments, the N-Koku Party argued that “these points out the fact that the plaintiff is a dangerous religious group that massacres people who are in conflict with the plaintiff, those who betray the plaintiff, and their families, thereby lowering the plaintiff’s social standing.” In his reasons for the verdict, presiding judge Masahiko Abe found that party leader Takafumi Tachibana “repeatedly committed criminal and illegal acts, and, together with the deputy leader, encouraged his supporters to cause nuisance to those who made speech critical of him, and made statements that suggested he would not hesitate to resort to terrorism or genocide.” The court concluded that “the purpose of the posts was to promote the public interest, important parts of the underlying facts were true, and there was no illegality.” Related [Election Watcher] Checking the Trends of the Party to Protect the People from NHK (#521). *Previous thread.
>>1 The court is too double-standard When Soka Gakkai, which has been making all kinds of nonsense up until now, says “It’s defamation!”, they admit it and make it defamation In comparison, calling the NHK Party, which hasn’t done anything significant, a scam isn’t defamation, which is nonsense From today, they should change the name to “Soka Gakkai Court”
I don’t think they’d do anything as extreme as taking control of the old media and holding a public murder show, or making complete strangers out to be the culprits and reporting on them.
>It’s like Aum not releasing sarin The important part of this is that they didn’t release sarin, so is that true or not? And it’s just like that, so it’s just an analogy.
I don’t mean to defend Tachibana, but defamation can exist even if it is true, so this completely applies.
39Anonymous donburako rolling around.Nov. 28, 2024 (Thu) 09:43:10.62ID:ilojQ1kS0
>>20 The ruling is that the defamation is valid, but it’s not illegal because it meets the grounds for excluding illegality. This is actually a favorite technique that Tachibana himself has used frequently.
>>20 The reports of food poisoning at a restaurant are a form of business interference, but if they are true, they are in the public interest, just like anything else. The courts have determined that this political group is an anti-social cult, and that there are facts worthy of criticism. It shows how dangerous it is to get involved in this without knowing.
Zaitokukai Sakurai “They said our very existence is hate, we’re suing!” Court: “We can’t help being called that.” Takeda Tsuneyasu “They said we’re racists, we’re suing!” Himasora Akane “They said we’re sexist, we’re suing!” Tachibana Takashi “They said we’re an anti-social cult, we’re suing!” Court: “We can’t help being called that.”New!.
>>37 >>42 Since “Aum” is a metaphor, “spreading sarin” is also a metaphor. Metaphors are a way of sacrificing logical rigor to make something resonate with you in a straightforward way, so it’s rude to point that out. The first thing that comes to mind as an anti-social cult is Aum Shinrikyo, and the first thing that comes to mind as a violent crime committed by Aum Shinrikyo is the dispersal of sarin. That is why “Aum, which did not release sarin” can succinctly be described as “an anti-social cult group that does not commit violent crimes.”
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