Re: Mercury and lead

--- In cybalist@..., Omar Karamán <diogenes@...> wrote:

> Torsten,
>
> It is not the first time that you talks about mercury and its
>strange
> consequences. Today you are joking again, don't you?
>
> > 5. Shoko Asahara, the demented leader of the Aum cult (is it OK if
> > call him demented and not religious?) was born in a seaside town

in

> > Japan 50 km from Minamata in 1956, at the time of the mercury
> > disaster.
>
> "At the time" doesn't mean that it has something to do with

anything. I

> was born when The Beatles begun their career (same time) and until

today

> I am a nobody, and I am sure that the utmost of Liverpool (same

place)

> inhabitants of my age are as unknown as me too.
>

If you are born in Japan and live by the sea, you eat fish. If you
lived 50 km from Minamata bay in 1956, you ate contaminated fish.
Shoko Asahara was born half-blind. The Japanese government has an
obvious interest in drawing a legal line in the sand between those
that were poisoned and those that weren't. In the hypothetical case
that Mr. Nut was recognized as a poisoning victim, they might be sued
for damages from the victims of the same fellow. That would be a lot
a money. So I don't think that will happen.

Torsten