Ryan Bailey in trouble over joke

[Guest]

A British rugby league player is under investigation after allegedly posting distasteful jokes about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan on a social networking site.

Leeds Rhinos prop Ryan Bailey is alleged to have written the comments on his Facebook page, although they have since been taken down.

Leeds says an internal investigation is under way and the club is "taking the allegations very seriously."

The 27-year-old Bailey, who has played four times for both Britain and England, has yet to play in the English Super League this season because of injury.

American comedian Gilbert Gottfried was fired by insurance company Aflac on Monday after posting mocking jokes about the earthquake and tsunami on Twitter


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what a dead set dickhead..how would he handle losing family and friends?

[crikey chris]

Another brain-dead footballer!

What a dumb fark!!!!!!

[bondi-boy]

Another brain-dead footballer!

What a dumb fark!!!!!!

Some people could still be very angry about Japanese atrocities against British, Australian, American and other Allied, etc troops, and British and Australian women POWs.
...and Chinese civilians in the 'rape of Nanking' [slicing open the bellies of pregnant Chinese women and holding up the foetuses on their swords, for example.]

Chinese crowd was hissing Japanese athletes at the Beijing Olympics.

Australian POW's tortured to death, drained of their blood.

Sandakan Death Marches...thousands of British and Australian troops slaughtered on the death marches at the end of the war.

The Bangka Island Massacre:

Aussie nurses in uniform...ship sunk after leaving Singapore...washed ashore on Bangka island...

http://www.reocities.com/dutcheastin..._massacre.html


A Japanese officer, smaller and more "nattily" dressed than his men, instructed the nurses to walk from the palm-fringed Radjik Beach into the sea until they were waist deep in the waves. A couple of soldiers shoved those who were slow to respond.
Twenty-two nurses and one civilian woman walked into the waves, leaving ten or twelve stretcher cases on the beach.

Fully aware of their fate, the nurses put on a brave face. Their matron, Irene Drummond, called out: "Chin up, girls. I'm proud of you and I love you all."
At that point the Japanese fired. Vivian Bullwinkel later described what happened next: » started firing up and down the line with a machine gun. ... They just swept up and down the line and the girls fell one after the other.

[bondi-boy]

There is a movie...the Bangka Island massacre was left out...'Paradise Road', about the female POWs:

Raped, bashed with long sticks, abused, starved...some died.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k7Pj9DgLWY&NR=1




Maybe the British footy player is angry at Japan and couldn't care less if Japan is offended by anything he wrote.

Japan is not everyone's favourite country, even today.

[Cockadoodledoo]

There is a movie...the Bangka Island massacre was left out...'Paradise Road', about the female POWs:

Raped, bashed with long sticks, abused, starved...some died.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k7Pj9DgLWY&NR=1




Maybe the British footy player is angry at Japan and couldn't care less if Japan is offended by anything he wrote.

Japan is not everyone's favourite country, even today.

What happened back then is history, two wrongs don't make a right.

[bondi-boy]

What happened back then is history, two wrongs don't make a right.

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Maybe he doesn't think he's done anything wrong...or just didn't think deeply about what he wrote.

Jokes were inappropriate, but given given past history...

and present history...Japan's slaughtering of our whales, and bullying of nations not to register Sea Shepherd's protest ships, for example...
Japan, and some Japanese, are not adored by everyone.

http://de.seashepherd.org/news-and-m...-070705-1.html

Sea Shepherd Receives the Flag of the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy

On June 18th, Sea Shepherd Founder and President Captain Paul Watson attended a special gathering organized by the Traditional Up the Hill Longhouse of the Mohawks at Kahnawake just south of Montreal.

The Up the Hill Longhouse is one of the three longhouses of the Mohawks at Kahnawake.

The gathering was organized for the purpose of presenting the registry and the flag of the Five Nations to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society for the ships Robert Hunter and Farley Mowat.

The Mohawks were responding to the fact that the Canadian government had revoked the Canadian registry of the Farley Mowat at the demand of the Japanese government. The Farley Mowat was forced to put to sea in December 2006 as an unflagged vessel.


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Yes, schoolgirls have led our whale war against Japan...Japan that treats us with utter contempt:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbieX...eature=related



Schoolgirls, held a display at the Opera House, then an Aboriginal ceremony send off as they left to fight Japan at the IWC conference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQOSdeof_Q4&NR=1



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl5ZrOwbefA

Tempers flare before anti-whaling activist's trial in Japan - CCTV 100611

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Japanese protesters:...see the placard:

"Punish him heavily
the Racist and Eco-terrorist".


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9B5EJEqtHE&NR=1

Pete Bethune on trial for defending whales from slaughter

[stephenj]

i just read through a number of the comments both from japanese sources and from the rest of the world, interestingly the same attitude that japan is the superior race continues to come out, the same attitude that led to Japanese barbarism in ww2 is still evident today? i do feel sorry for their losses after the tsunami, but maybe it just is karma? this same race refuses to say sorry for the atrocities carried out on allied pows during ww2. no excuses there!

[Cockadoodledoo]

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Maybe he doesn't think he's done anything wrong...or just didn't think deeply about what he wrote.

Jokes were inappropriate, but given given past history...

and present history...Japan's slaughtering of our whales, and bullying of nations not to register Sea Shepherd's protest ships, for example...
Japan, and some Japanese, are not adored by everyone.

http://de.seashepherd.org/news-and-m...-070705-1.html

Sea Shepherd Receives the Flag of the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy

On June 18th, Sea Shepherd Founder and President Captain Paul Watson attended a special gathering organized by the Traditional Up the Hill Longhouse of the Mohawks at Kahnawake just south of Montreal.

The Up the Hill Longhouse is one of the three longhouses of the Mohawks at Kahnawake.

The gathering was organized for the purpose of presenting the registry and the flag of the Five Nations to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society for the ships Robert Hunter and Farley Mowat.

The Mohawks were responding to the fact that the Canadian government had revoked the Canadian registry of the Farley Mowat at the demand of the Japanese government. The Farley Mowat was forced to put to sea in December 2006 as an unflagged vessel.


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Yes, schoolgirls have led our whale war against Japan...Japan that treats us with utter contempt:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbieX...eature=related



Schoolgirls, held a display at the Opera House, then an Aboriginal ceremony send off as they left to fight Japan at the IWC conference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQOSdeof_Q4&NR=1



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl5ZrOwbefA

Tempers flare before anti-whaling activist's trial in Japan - CCTV 100611

>>>>> >>>>> >>>>>

Japanese protesters:...see the placard:

"Punish him heavily
the Racist and Eco-terrorist".


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9B5EJEqtHE&NR=1

Pete Bethune on trial for defending whales from slaughter

wow.. Japan are the only country that commits atrocities lol... maybe if you had a look at how the Europeans started in this place..

[Cockadoodledoo]

i just read through a number of the comments both from japanese sources and from the rest of the world, interestingly the same attitude that japan is the superior race continues to come out, the same attitude that led to Japanese barbarism in ww2 is still evident today? i do feel sorry for their losses after the tsunami, but maybe it just is karma? this same race refuses to say sorry for the atrocities carried out on allied pows during ww2. no excuses there!

you can interpret that from pretty much every country.. Have a look at the US.. Even Australia's press can make it seem our shit doesn't smell.

[stephenj]

big difference, apart from the suicides during the pow breakout at cowra, in australia japanese pows were well treated , not abused tortured or murdered in the name of a pseudo emperor god?

[bondi-boy]

Only about 32 weeks until Japan returns to our Antarctic whale sanctuary to slaughter more whales...treating us with utter contempt.

The whaling ships, chased out of Antarctic and the Southern Ocean early by Sea Shepherd and its ships including the Steve Irwin [time to arm its chopper with more than just fresh air].....have been used after the tsunami to ferry supplies to the disaster zones.

Here's an idea...Japan keeps them in Japan, in case of any more natural disasters.

What happened to Ryan Bailey for telling the joke?

[stephenj]

it will be interesting to see what happens this 'whaling season? maybe the whales might make it hunting japanese season? ive got no problems there?