Re: The Ranting/Debate Thread
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Alright, this pisses me off. I've known a lot of friends who went through divorce and there's nothing that has a sting like separated parents.
Long story short, this article's about this one guy who divorced his wife, who was a Japanese native. He had custody of kids and the wife lived near the town he lived in so that they could still visit. Eventually things turn sour and the wife actually takes the kids and leaves for Japan. The Japanese court system, however, doesn't recognize this as child abduction because they didn't sign up for the international child abduction convention. Therefore in Japanese laws, she hadn't done anything illegal. The problem is that she violated American laws by taking the child, but we can't do anything about it. Even better, they actually say that "Parental child abduction is not considered a crime in Japan." Eventually the father takes action and goes to Japan and tries to take the kids back. He gets arrested and is thrown into jail. And now a whole bunch of international law hoo-hah is springing up about what laws are in effect here.
Are you fucking kidding me, Japan? I know people say this a lot as a joke, but now I'm dead serious when I say that Japan is fucked up. What kind of a fucking country actually says that child abduction isn't illegal? First and foremost, that's truly fucking disgusting that Japan would even approve of ANY kind of child abduction. Secondly, none of that even MATTERS. I don't know much about international laws, but if something happened in one country, they should be facing the punishment FROM that country.
It's basically like saying I stole from a bank in America, then fled to Canada, where I'm safe because apparently in Canada you're allowed to steal from a bank. IT DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT, JAPAN.
Furthermore, you're telling me that the dad needs to be jailed because NEITHER side was taking any action? Sure it was irresponsible and downright illegal what he did, but at least he actually cared enough about his child to take them back. The wife took the kids and fled most probably to spite the father. The father went to take the kids back because he wasn't getting any results from the failures of a government system.
This brings me to my next point. Like I said before, I don't know much about international laws, but you're telling me that the wife was okay when she abducted the child and ran to Japan because Japan doesn't recognize parental child abduction, but the father is going to get jailed because he tried to abduct his kids? Either CNN made a typo or Japan is a corrupt as hell place.
Thoughts or comments?