My Lord Mori
Your fears of the Gaijin are almost Matsui-like in its obsessiveness.
I do not oppose the legislation so much as I find it is unnecessary in the it solves a problem which does not exist. Or rather does not yet exist but will if we Adopt the reactive attitudes of the old Shogunates. They sought to control rather than direct. They never learnt the lesson that people are like a mighty river. If you try to stop the flow with a dam, the build up of pressure will eventually overwhelm, but if you direct the energy of the flow such as through a mill, you may harness it for your own purposes.
We are a mighty nation. But we will not appear so to others if give pur fears expression in this legislation. You would have us cower behind a castle wall and await the Gaijin's infiltration, instead of taking to the field and imposing our will on them.
We must stop worrying about what the Gaijin might do to us and start thinking about what we can do to them.
Yamamoto Hirakuni
Count of Nagasaki