Yeah, once he tried to チカン me up & down, but there was one of those posters around that you like so much, so I knew what to look out for.

The fire of malfeasance in his eyes.

So, he can't get out on bail??

How could there be bail when he hasn't actually been charged with a crime?

Oh right.

Detention without charge is a maximum of 25 days (2x10days+5days), longer than the UK or US (unless you are deemed to be a "terrorist".

What I am trying to understand is why I don't see the Horiemon legal team kicking up a fuss, in the way that most legal teams do, contesting the extensions and attempting to use the media to put their side of the story across. We all know Horiemon was good at that, so why the sudden change of tactics?

Actually, it might be good that he is kept in custody, he might be suicided like his buddy or something....

Do police ever let people out before the 25 day-limit? Is it standard that you have to wait out the full period before you can be charged with a crime? Does Horie actually have legal recourse to get out of jail early?

And yes, for those who are not reading the shukanshi, the coroner's report for the ex-Livedoor employee who had supposedly killed himself (days after the office raid) has not ruled the death self-inflicted. A lot of people speculate that if a non-suicide can be proven, it will help Horie's standings. Certainly ups the conspiracy angle.

25 days: longer than the UK or US (unless you are deemed to be a "terrorist".

Anyone following politics in the UK will know that the government has been trying to impose a 90-day detention without charge period in new legislation for terrorist suspects. The House of Lords rejected this, the government came back with a compromise of 60 days but were voted down again, and the final figure was reduced to 28 days.

The whole point about "without charge" is that the decision on whether you're a suspect terrorist or not is made fairly arbitrarily, without judicial process.

I hear that the "suicide" chose to slit his own throat and slash open his own belly.

N.B. The Nikkei is the clans' principle source of income.

Horie was a "made man" until it became expedient to sacrifice him.

I hear he was in Very Deep with The Man.

Borrowed a lot of money.

All this wouldn't have happened if he'd made it into The Party at the "election" in September.

His arrest is a smokescreen for the Aneha scandal.

construction = clans = pork barrel pols

N.B. Around 80% of diet members are affiliated, although the figure is reportedly declining.

The taxpaying, "voting" consumer bears the burden for rigged bids and inflated costs.

The Man wins collusion from the media by providing shock fodder that pushes up sales and simultaneously relieves them of an obligation to investigate other, potentially more sensitive, issues.

"principal source" not "principle source"

lazy me

There are very few principles involved, it would seem.

How can you write about Horiemon when everybody's favourite talento Bobby has been taken away (and subsequently released) by the police!! And even serious publications like Mainichi Shimbun are making a mockery of his Japanese, the one and only time I expect he wouldn't do it himself.
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