Re: Oshi-dashi'd message

[Doreen Simmons <jz8d-smmn@asahi-net.or.jp>]

>---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "John Racine" <gaijira@tky2.3web.ne.jp>
>To: "Sumo ML" <sumo@statgen.ncsu.edu>
>Subject: Sumo and the Right Wing
>Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 07:14:45 +0900
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>
>Sorry if you received this twice.  My last post my have been oshidashi'd
>into the ether....
>
>
>This issue came up on a list-serve unrelated to sumo.
>
>Doreen made the comment that the black buses of the Japanese right chose not
>to torment the Sumo Association because they had been paid off.
>
>My questions (for Doreen, or anyone else who may want to take a shot at it):
>How 'public' was this transaction?  How much did they pay?  Other than being
>loud, what did the right threaten to do, if they hadn't been paid off?

Doreen writes:

I have never said anything of the sort.  Rather the reverse. While the 
half-dozen rightists in their two buses were pounding away outside the 
Kokugikan, it was a standing joke among the regulars that obviously the 
Kyokai _hadn't_ paid them off!

~Doreen Simmons
      <jz8d-smmn@asahi-net.or.jp>~