As some background for my views, I was living in Tokyo when the Noriko Sakai scandal unfolded and encountered some of the press feeding frenzy. Her husband had been busted for under 1 gram of illegal stimulants so they raided her house and found 0.008 grams. It made headlines for months, her whole extended family is forever black sheeped and she is in permanent submissive disgrace. In plenty of cultures, you lose privileges such as judging others when you commit crimes and make bad decisions. In Australia it is divided, but precisely what proportion would and should listen to Trala's hypocritical sermons isn't for dotty hooley to
cluck decide.