Japan's Prime Minister Emphasizing the Importance of Maintaining Public Order Over Protecting Individual Rights

Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's agenda is anti-democratic and profoundly destabilizing for the region. He wants to transform Japan into an "illiberal state." But the Holy Grail for Abe remains the constitutional revision. As Kristin Surak writes for The Diplomat, the Abe document would not just remove Article 9 to create a "normal" army: it "would emphasize the importance of maintaining public order over protecting individual rights, such as free speech. Eroding the position of the individual yet further, the family would replace the person as the basic unit of society."

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February 27, 2015

Huffington Post - In the ads in the back of old comic books, a skinny little kid is hanging out at the beach when a bully comes along and kicks sand in his face.

The little kid, who weighed 97 pounds at the time, was Angelo Siciliano. He hightailed it to the gym, where he worked out until he turned himself into someone no bully would ever think of attacking. In addition to getting a new job as the strongman at the circus, Siciliano changed his name to Charles Atlas and began promoting his training regimen to other skinny kids.