What is at issue is the following;
1) The fact that the Japanese government was unwilling to distribute KI to the Japanese people immediately after 3/11, 2012 and is now busy oppressing an individual who offered the opportunity to purchase KI at that time. Japan Officials Failed to Hand Out Radiation Pills in Quake's Aftermath
2) The fact that the Japanese government ignored the WHO guidelines for KI recommending the purchase of KI -- and is still ignoring them, jeopardizing the health of the Japanese people as a result. WHO Guidelines for Iodine Prophylaxis following Nuclear Accidents
3) The fact that the Japanese government has been systematically trying to keep KI out of reach of the Japanese people for fear of undermining the myth of the safety of nuclear power plants. KI is classified as a “powerful drug” and is unavailable without a prescription in Japan.
4) The fact that KI is considered as "a desecrating drug" to their safety myth of nuclear power plants by the government . And as such, it is also "a taboo object" capable of incurring "serious side effects" which general public must keep away. It is supposed to be handled only by "shamans in lab coat."
From the point of view of the Japanese government I am a criminal for illegally selling KI or for making a desecrating drug available to the public. But which is more "criminal": the one who offered the opportunity to purchase KI in those critical days or the ones who were unwilling to distribute KI to the Japanese people? In fact, the Japanese government ordered the recall of KI which was distributed by the local municipality without government approval in a town near the Fukushima nuclear power plant at the time of the nuclear disaster. Japan Officials Failed to Hand Out Radiation Pills in Quake's Aftermath KI, Forbidden Drug in Japan?
When I turned to a local lawyer for help in defending myself he ended up refusing to return my calls. My closest friend got scared when he heard about the morning police raid of my home by seven agents of the police. He now avoids all contact with me for fear of getting involved in this matter. My wife has been traumatized by these recent events.
The government that was reluctant to help people is now busy punishing an individual who was trying to help people. I think they were not only incompetent and wicked in those critical days but are still more wicked now.
I want people in the world to know this small war waged between a government and an individual. This website is my fortress to fight those evil powers. And I want people on the globe to know the true intention of the Japanese government to make KI inaccessible for its people. KI is a desecrating drug to their safety myth of nuclear power plants.
Even after 3/11 nuclear disaster, they won't declassify "the tabooed drug." And what is worse, they are now taking advantage of that disaster saying, "Thanks to a lot of lessons we learned from 3/11 Fukushima nuclear power plant accidents, Japanese nuclear technology and safety control are now the best in the world!" And actually they are now boosting their sales of nuclear power plants abroad especially in developing countries. Evidently they have their own lessons other than ours from Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear disaster.
Crime by Government --- KI is Kept Away from Japanese People
The Japanese electricity companies succeeded in persuading the people living near the sites of projected Japanese nuclear power plants to allow the construction of those plants. They explained at their briefings that there was no risk of a nuclear accident, citing the superiority of Japanese nuclear technology and the safety controls in place. They assured the townspeople that everything would be controlled and monitored by computers. They also assured everyone that even a minor problem at the plant would stop the plant’s operation and that operation would not be resumed until the problem was fixed. They explained that minor problems would be weeded out and that accidents would have no chance to develop.
They were like salesmen selling cars – telling customers that they will never break down. The people bought their tall story in Japan.
Of course there were skeptics and opponents who didn’t buy their story. But those people were in a minority and were often branded as “political nuts” and persecuted as obstructers of “constructive” plans for their town. Actually, “cooperative” towns became “rich” thanks to employment, new public facilities and cash for every household.
The presenter at the local briefing never mentioned the stockpiling of KI which is mandated by the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency. To talk about KI in front of the townspeople would have been suicidal, not only for the presenter but for the whole plan. KI was a taboo subject. KI, Potassium Iodide, is produced mainly as a protective agent against radioactive iodine and is supposed to be used in the event of radiation emergencies. So the topic of KI necessarily implies nuclear accidents. The possibility of nuclear accidents was banished from the presentation because KI was never mentioned.
Avoiding the topic of KI revealed that they were lying by omission. Even after winning the agreement of the townspeople and the subsequent construction of the nuclear power plant in question, the presenter said nothing about KI stockpiling to the townspeople -- except to the mayor, who had to promise not to tell the townspeople.
They managed to make the townspeople swallow a poisonous nuclear power plant without talking about "an antidote."
In this way the concealment of KI became part of the strategy in the development of nuclear power plants in Japan. The less visible KI was the better for the proliferation of nuclear power plants around Japan. It turned out that it would be best to make KI as invisible as possible.
The electricity companies could never get away with this without government complicity. Actually Potassium Iodide was classified as a “powerful drug” and is still unavailable without a doctor’s prescription in Japan. We never see KI on the shelf of pharmacies or drug stores. It is usually behind the curtain in the pharmacy even when available. It is illegal to possess KI or to give KI or to stock KI without a prescription.
The doctors representing the government usually emphasize the existence of side effects of KI and its potential severity when taken excessively, by accident. Such “lab coat bluff” is typical in the case of KI in Japan. Even in “Wikipedia” in the Japanese language, the general public is advised not to use KI without a doctor’s approval and guidance because of its potential danger. The arm of the government and the finger of the Ministry of Health & Labor are very long.
As for KI, the Wall Street Journal says as follows;
“Following the Chernobyl accident in 1986, Poland gave 10.5 million children at least one dose of KI soon after the accident, with very few reports of resulting side effects.” ---The Wall Street Journal Asia: September 29, 2011 “Japan Officials Failed to Hand Out Radiation Pills in Quake's Aftermath”
The general public knew very little about KI in Japan for a long time -- even after the nuclear attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those were the first and second major radiation emergencies that mankind has experienced in history. Only after the third major radiation disaster in the same ill-fated country, the Fukushima nuclear disaster on 3/11, did a handful people become interested in KI. But they are intimidated by “the lab coat bluff.”
So the nation that has suffered three major radiation disasters is systematically kept at a distance from KI, the one substance that protects people from radiation. Unfortunately, the Japanese people are scarcely aware of the clandestine efforts to make KI as unavailable as possible.
It would be useful to cite a part of the following document; “WHO: Guidelines for Iodine Prophylaxis following Nuclear Accidents Update 1999”
“… The latest information on the balance of risks and benefits will also need to be properly considered in the plans for any distribution and storage of stable iodine. It suggests that stockpiling is warranted, when feasible, over much wider areas than normally encompassed by emergency planning zones, and that the opportunity for voluntary purchase be part of national plans.”
It is worthwhile to quote the last sentence again; “… and that the opportunity for voluntary purchase be part of national plans.”
The 3/11 Fukushima nuclear disaster revealed the flagrant neglect of the Japanese government in this respect. This is a serious humanitarian issue. We are witnessing a crime committed by the government. The Japanese government not only took away the opportunity for people to defend themselves against nuclear disaster, they are still unwilling to remove the restrictions around KI.
The government thinks their crimes have not been discovered. Upon being discovered, perhaps they might respond by saying, “We have our own pharmaceutical laws in Japan.” But the government should know that there are wrong laws as well as right laws. The difference is that right laws are moral and wrong laws are immoral. A government that lets its people suffer needlessly in a nuclear disaster in order to protect its own interests and those of large corporations is acting immorally – and abominably. The fact that this is happening to the Japanese people who suffered the unspeakable consequences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki makes the government’s crime even more abominable.
A government that crafts legislation to protect large corporations and the government itself from culpability – legislation designed to keep out of the hands of the population the one substance that can protect them from radiation -- has committed a moral abomination. It has acted criminally, with malice aforethought, to perpetrate an evil hoax on its own people who are unwittingly destined to suffer untold misery, once again, but this time at the hands of their own government, not at the hands of a foreign power.
"WHO Guidelines for Iodine Prophylaxis following Nuclear Accidents"
We can see very remarkable recommendations in ABSTRACT.
It says, "The latest information on the balance of risks and benefits ... suggests that the opportunity of voluntary purchase be part of national plans.
ウォール・ストリート・ジャーナル紙は、福島第一原発直後の住民被ばくに対して、政府は行うべき住民のための防護策を怠っていた実態を、政府関係文書と政府機関や自治体関係者のインタビューによって明らかにしました。
Thursday, September 29, 2011 As of 12:00 AM :The Wall Street Journal Asia
ASIA NEWS SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
Japan Officials Failed to Hand Out Radiation Pills in Quake's Aftermath
「日本の行政機関は震災余波の中、ついに放射能防護剤を住民に手渡さなかった」
"Logistics of Stable Iodine Prophylaxis" from WHO Guidelines
Although it remains as recommendations, it is based on sound common sense and sober reasoning .
FDA Guidance: Potassium Iodide as a Thyroid Blocking Agent in Radiation
The following is from American Thyroid Association: Nuclear Radiation and the Thyroid
http://www.thyroid.org/wp-content/uploads/patients/brochures/NuclearRadiation_brochure.pdf
Highly recommended website on nuclear and the thyroid.
Related Links
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As truth about Fukushima radiation emerges, Japanese authorities struggle to maintain cover-up
http://www.naturalnews.com/036639_Fukushima_radiation_cover-up.html
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Fukushima news, articles and information on Fukushima:
http://www.naturalnews.com/Fukushima.html
Report of Japanese Government to the IAEA Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety
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