The third and most convincing thing to me, is that the whole terrorist threat is over-rated. It has been used by governments as a pretext to increase police powers. Because really, the government is not that worried about terrorism, as their targeting only non-Japanese proves. They are really interested in catching “dangerous criminals” like visa over-stayers, and establishing a data-bank of fingerprints that they can use in case any crimes may be committed.
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It’s lazy police-work. The police won’t actually have to do anything when there’s a crime committed, except scan through their computer database and try to find someone to arrest. Whether that person may have been somewhere perfectly innocently or not probably won’t be considered, because once they have the “evidence” they will go into typical mode here, arrest the suspect and then question them for up to 23 days with no recourse to a lawyer, using tactics of sleep deprivation and psychological intimidation until they confess. Even the courts have been chiding police and overturning confessions lately citing unusually harsh questioning procedures.