Comments on: その他 http://whiteperil.com/2007/03/16/%e3%81%9d%e3%81%ae%e4%bb%96/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:45:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sean Kinsell http://whiteperil.com/2007/03/16/%e3%81%9d%e3%81%ae%e4%bb%96/comment-page-1/#comment-2809 Sean Kinsell Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:31:22 +0000 http://whiteperil.com/?p=1390#comment-2809 Well, they really did fail to prove that he's the mastermind of the whole thing, didn't they? 2.5 years doesn't sound insufficient to me, though I hardly qualify as a legal analyst. <BR /> <BR />You're right that the evolution in Horie's public persona, while perfectly predictable, was interesting. Up to a few years ago, he was only too happy to make it clear that he thought the fusty types in the bureaucracies and the <i>keiretsu</i> were ignorant of the way money markets and investments actually worked in the Great Wide World. Once things started to get hot for him, of course, he had to switch to being Kunihito Q. Citizen, the average guy just trying to make a living as best he can and being caught in the jaws of the legal machine. I wonder whether it would have played well for a jury; he did seem to carry it off pretty well. Well, they really did fail to prove that he’s the mastermind of the whole thing, didn’t they? 2.5 years doesn’t sound insufficient to me, though I hardly qualify as a legal analyst.

You’re right that the evolution in Horie’s public persona, while perfectly predictable, was interesting. Up to a few years ago, he was only too happy to make it clear that he thought the fusty types in the bureaucracies and the keiretsu were ignorant of the way money markets and investments actually worked in the Great Wide World. Once things started to get hot for him, of course, he had to switch to being Kunihito Q. Citizen, the average guy just trying to make a living as best he can and being caught in the jaws of the legal machine. I wonder whether it would have played well for a jury; he did seem to carry it off pretty well.

]]> By: Shu Naka http://whiteperil.com/2007/03/16/%e3%81%9d%e3%81%ae%e4%bb%96/comment-page-1/#comment-2808 Shu Naka Mon, 19 Mar 2007 06:32:11 +0000 http://whiteperil.com/?p=1390#comment-2808 About Horie, what do you think of him getting two and a half years in behind bars? There were some so-called "experts" on TV saying that if he were tried in the States, the sentence would be several times longer. I thought it was also interesting to imagine what the verdict would have been like had he been tried by a jury, American style, rather than by the judge. Horie seemed to do well playing the part of the innocent victim on TV. About Horie, what do you think of him getting two and a half years in behind bars? There were some so-called “experts” on TV saying that if he were tried in the States, the sentence would be several times longer. I thought it was also interesting to imagine what the verdict would have been like had he been tried by a jury, American style, rather than by the judge. Horie seemed to do well playing the part of the innocent victim on TV.

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