2011年3月13日。
停電区域の報道の中に母の生まれ故郷・群馬県藤岡市の名を見ながら、著者は安否不明の母が生存者の中にいることを祈る。
同時に、東日本大震災直後の救助体制の遅れ、政治権力の無能、そして現場で事実を伝え続けた人々と対照的な為政者たちの言動を厳しく批判する。
これは震災のただ中で、母への切実な思いと、国家の危機対応の欠如を書き留めた当日の記録である。
March 13, 2011.
Seeing the name of his mother’s birthplace, Fujioka in Gunma Prefecture, appear on television in connection with the planned blackout areas, the author prays that his missing mother may be among the survivors.
At the same time, he sharply condemns the delayed rescue response, the incompetence of political power, and the contrast between those risking themselves to convey facts from the field and those in authority.
This is a same-day record written in the midst of the disaster, capturing both a son’s desperate hope for his mother and his anger at the failure of national crisis leadership.
…。
2011-03-13
お母ちゃん。
あなたの生まれ故郷の名前が、今、テレビに出たよ…。
明日からの停電エリアの説明の中でだが。
群馬県、藤岡市、あなたの故郷だよ。
頑張ってくれよ。
５０人の中に、あなたが居る事を祈っているから。

敢えて書きます…。
2011-03-13

大阪に居てすら分った…。
ただ事ではない揺れ。

本物の大将なら、あの瞬間に最大限の体制を構築していただろう…。
前章で書いた…。
自衛隊全軍出動も含めて。

私は、そうではない○○を大将に仕立てた○○たちを…。
彼等の前狗をなした、○○○○も…。
何故か？
本物の大将なら…。
今日、３日目に至るまで救助されずに孤立している人たちが居るなんてことはなかったはずだからだ。

日本中の自衛隊を、ヘリコプターを総動員していれば、とうに、全員、救出されていただろう。
あの○○が視察等と称して使ったヘリコプター一台で、何人の命が救えたことか。
オバマの真似をしたのか…。
オバマは沖合油田の流失状況を視察したのだ。

大阪のビルにいても感じた…。
あの不気味に、異常に長かった揺れが意味するものは、catastrophe以外の何物でもない、と考える想像力。
人類に対する危険が生じたことに気づく感性すら持たない、○○○達を…。
私たちの国の執行部に仕立てたのは誰か…。
○○、○○○○、…。

私はツイッターも利用しているから知っているのだが、ネットに溢れていたのは、ただ事ではないと分った瞬間から…。
ちょっとでも役に立ちたいと思う気持ち。
現場から発せられた呟きをキャッチした…。
携帯やＰＣ堪能者たちは、皆、自分が掴んだ情報…。
誰かが、どこそこで、助けて欲しい、と呟いている情報を、「皆に拡散して」と、送っていたのが事実であり真実。
チェーン・メールなるもので、阿呆な事をしている人間なんぞは一人もいなかった。

炉心溶融が起こっている時に、チェーン・メール云々等と、時代遅れ以前の様な、…。
起きている事と何の関係もないことを言って、自分達の無能さを…。
何処にいるのかも分らない…。
居たとしても、取るにも足らない様な者たちに対する非難にすり替え、挙げ句は…。
今回だけは、アホ、馬鹿タレントや芸人を使い回した番組を流している場合ではないと…。
本来のジャーナリズム魂に火が付いて、全局、皆、現地に向かい、全ての時間を使って、国民に事実＝真実を知らせていた…。
テレビ局関係者に向かって、立ち入り禁止区域に、入ったりしたら駄目じゃないか、等と言う、これ以上ない○○な事を言っていた○○○○。

彼らは、正に、私が言い続けて来た、痴呆テレビを通して物事を考えて来ただけの人間である事を証明していた。
ジャーナリストとは、そこに伝えるべき事実、伝えなければならない事実が在る時には、自らの命を掛けてでも、取材する…。
それがジャーナリストなのだということすら知らない知性。
○○を出たからと言って、真の知性を持っているかどうかとは全く関係がない。
彼等は…。
テレビとは自分達に都合のいい事を流さなければならないもの。
アホ・馬鹿タレントたちが下卑た笑いを振りまくものと思っているのだろうな。

….
March 13, 2011
Mother.
The name of the place where you were born just appeared on television….
It was in the explanation of tomorrow’s blackout areas.
Fujioka City, Gunma Prefecture, your hometown.
Please hold on.
I am praying that you are among the fifty.

I will dare to write this….
March 13, 2011

Even here in Osaka, I could tell….
This was no ordinary shaking.

A real commander would have built the maximum possible response structure at that very moment….
As I wrote in the previous chapter….
Including the full mobilization of the Self-Defense Forces.

I blame those who installed as commander someone who was no such thing….
And also ○○○○, who served as their running dog….
Why?
Because if there had been a real commander….
There should not have still been people left isolated and unrescued even on the third day.

If the Self-Defense Forces across the whole country and all helicopters had been fully mobilized, everyone would already have been rescued.
How many lives could have been saved with the single helicopter that man used under the name of an inspection.
Was he imitating Obama?….
Obama inspected the offshore oil spill.

Even from an office building in Osaka, I could feel it….
The imagination to understand that the meaning of that eerie, abnormally long shaking was nothing other than catastrophe.
And yet they lacked even the sensibility to recognize that a danger to humanity itself had arisen….
Who was it that installed such ○○○ as the executive leadership of our country?….
○○, ○○○○,….

I also use Twitter, so I know this.
What overflowed across the internet from the very moment people realized this was no ordinary event was….
The desire to be of help, even a little.
People skilled with mobile phones and PCs caught the messages sent out from the scene….
And all of them were sharing the information they had grasped….
Messages saying that someone, somewhere, was pleading for help, asking others to spread the word.
That was the fact, and that was the truth.
There was not a single person doing anything foolish through so-called chain mail.

At a time when core meltdown was occurring, to talk about chain mail and the like, something even more outdated than outdated itself….
To say something completely unrelated to what was actually happening, and by doing so to shift attention from their own incompetence….
Onto people whose whereabouts were not even known….
And who, even if they existed, were too insignificant to matter.
And on top of that….
At a moment when, for once, this was no time to be airing programs filled with recycled idiot celebrities and comedians….
The true spirit of journalism had been ignited, and every network had gone to the scene and used all of its airtime to tell the people the facts, that is, the truth….
Yet ○○○○ was saying to television personnel such unbelievably ○○ things as that they must not enter restricted areas.

They proved exactly what I have kept saying, that they are merely people who have thought about everything through idiotic television.
A journalist is someone who, when there are facts that must be conveyed, facts that have to be conveyed, goes and reports them even at the risk of his own life….
And yet they do not even possess the intelligence to know that this is what a journalist is.
Graduating from ○○ has absolutely nothing to do with whether one has true intelligence.
For them….
Television is something that must broadcast only what is convenient for themselves.
They must think it is merely a place where idiot celebrities and foolish entertainers scatter vulgar laughter.