I guess, it is to your Buddhist credit that you allow the garbage that the racist wackos post on your site stay on. However, I would take them down. Here is why:

Although censorship is normally a bad idea (as an ex-Soviet journalist I was censored enough and know how bad that is), bullies of any kind (school-yard, sexual, religious, racial etc.) feel emboldened by us – targets like you and by-standers like me – when we either offer them another cheek or are simply keep silent. After all, the bullies feel approval of their perversion in our meekness and silence.

I share the ACLU idea that hate speech need to be confronted with more speech, however, if we do so our lives will be spent talking back to obviously mentally ill people, cancelling our ability to do the good things we can accomplish for all (including the wackos.)

Hence, my sincere advise – take down the bullying posts above. No one is better off if they stay there.

On a more cheerful note, try to have the best year ever. I hope your book will become a blockbuster international bestseller that it deserves to be and a movie version of it will come out soon.

Best, Andrei

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You know, the Dhammapadha has this nice saying that “Hatred Never Ceases By Hatred. It Ceases By Love Alone.” I believe that Christianity has some similar sentiments as well—you seem to be choosing the worst ones.
As a journalist, I think I should point out a substantial fallacy in your claims–the Jews didn’t kill Jesus. The Romans did. Mark was the earliest of all the gospels and considered the most historically accurate and it is clear that the Romans killed Jesus. When Christianity became the official religion of Rome, it became very inconvenient to blame the Romans and so the Jews were blamed–also because they didn’t adopt Christianity either.
I think what you really want to be saying is, ” I wish you would provide a perfect example of why the Christ-killing Romans and their Satanic Pasta are so rightly despised in all places at all times.”
Also, if you get a chance, please tell me where in the bible that it says Jesus was born on December 25th. I can’t seem to find it. Maybe there’s a secret translation?
By the way, if there is a brotherhood of Jewish gangsters I could sign up with, please send me their contact information.
I could use the extra protection.

I notice that you have a Japanese name “Akira” so I hope you don’t feel that I’m a Japan basher or that I don’t respect a lot about Japanese culture. I do. One of things I really respect about Japan is religious tolerance. Very nice.

By the way, I’ll throw another Buddhist sentiment at you. “Only the man with no wounds on his hand can dip them in poison.” I like that one. If you’re going to spew poison at people, be sure that you don’t poison yourself.
Thank you for writing in, though. I’m sure what you really wanted to do was save my eternal soul and as Christian, I’m sure you’ll forgive me for my sharply worded reply.
I’m putting your site here so that you further expound on your views, explain why Christmas is celebrated on December 25th, and perhaps call for a massive prayer for my salvation–and so that in all fairness, our readers–few in number, perhaps—can learn more about the Jewish conspiracy and hopefully tell me where to sign up. I feel left out.

PS. Do you suppose that my slightly pointed right ear is really just a vestigial horn? I always figured it had to be something more.

http://brianakira.wordpress.com/

“Mary Magdalene is a little more than a prostitute in some Christian lore (and thriller novels) and plays an unusual role in Gnostic Christianity, the mystical and peaceful branch of Christianity that was stamped out by the Catholic Church when they took power.
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“Yes, it’s probably a heresy to post a Buddhist benediction on a Christmas, but then again December 25th, really started out as a pagan holiday to celebrate the birth and magnificence of Mithra the Sun God…”

Thanks for providing a perfect example of why the Christ-Killing Jews and their Satanic Talmud are so rightly despised in all places at all times.

I hope 2010 has come off to a good start for you and your family.

Rather late, but I just finished reading your book. You have done such good work out there, despite all of the reservations you might feel about the past years. I’ve read Whiting’s book, Tokyo Underworld, before I went and did a year of high school in Japan 3 years ago. Your book contributes a significant amount of new insight on the Yakuza and I think will at least help make people who study Japan more aware of many of the unsavory aspects that lurk behind the shiny facade of contemporary Japan.

Keep up the good work Jake. I know that when I return to Japan this coming summer for college, my eyes will see things in a different way because of your hard work!