[Pan_Yan]

Japan Unleashes a Tsunami of Muscle Against Sea Shepherd
December 9, 2011 Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

Armed Security ships, mercenary thugs, Coast Guard officers, heavy weight public relations firms, and lawyers!

Thirty million dollars buys a great deal of influence and can exert immense pressure when defending an illegal activity.

In an act of desperation, the Japanese whalers armed with a war chest of some $US30 million allocated by the Japanese government from the tsunami earthquake relief fund are throwing a great deal of muscle into their efforts to stop the Sea Shepherd ships from saving whales this season.

The latest move has the Japanese whalers filing a lawsuit in a U.S. Court to prohibit Sea Shepherd from intervening against illegal Japanese whaling operations. Sea Shepherd dismisses this suit as frivolous and nothing more than the whalers attempting to use litigation as a weapon against Sea Shepherd.

“We have won this round already,” said Captain Paul Watson. "Last season we defeated the whalers and sent them home in humiliation after they were only able to kill 17% of their quota. This year will be more challenging. Thirty million dollars buys a great deal of influence and we are expecting a full onslaught of harassment and bureaucratic obstacles from Japan and from the governments, courts and media they are able to influence.

“It will be a challenging season and the most dangerous campaign to date as we head down for our eighth year of interventions against the whale poachers of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.”

Sea Shepherd is undeterred by this latest attempt to stop us in the U.S. Courts.

“This seems like a frivolous lawsuit to me,” said Captain Watson. “We have the images of the Japanese whalers destroying one of our ships, ramming our ships, running over our crew, firing upon us, throwing concussion grenades, deploying acoustical weapons, hitting us with water cannons and bamboo spears and they are suing us because they are accusing us of violence towards them. We have not rammed them and we have not caused a single injury nor have we been charged with a crime or even reprimanded by anyone for our actions. We have cooperated with every inquiry. They have not. This is simply a case of using the courts to harass us. I don’t believe they have a case and I doubt a U.S. court would take this seriously. Unlike Japan, the courts in the United States don’t automatically do what the government demands that they do.”

Sea Shepherd has more important issues to address than being distracted by lawsuits. “Our entire focus for the next three months will be on preventing the ruthless and illegal slaughter of whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary,“ said Captain Watson. “We will not be deterred by force, by lawsuits, by bureaucrats, by critics or by any government. We act non-violently within the boundaries of the law and we save whales from a criminal operation in a whale sanctuary.”

All this muscle is simply the last gasp of a dying, ecologically destructive and ruthless industry. Sea Shepherd will never abandon the whales of the Southern Ocean no matter how heavy handed the Japanese whalers become. The only way they will stop us is to kill us and they may be just desperate enough to do just that.”

[Pan_Yan]

Hippies Failing Badly!^TM

Please let me know if you want on or off the Whale Wars ping list.

Here's the latest rambling plea from Admiral CoCo Puffs (aka Paul Watson):

Dear (Lousy Stinking FReeper Troll),

The whale wars are upon us! The illegal Japanese whaling fleet has left port bound for the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. We will be there to greet them when they arrive in just a few short weeks.

Operation Divine Wind is set to be our most successful campaign to date! We are pulling out all the stops and this year we intend to end whaling in the Southern Ocean - permanently. We are going up against a global superpower and your help is vital to our success. You can take part in the defense of whales and other marine wildlife by supporting our mission today.

[Dengar01]

This will be one fun winter!!! If rat face drowns I want to hold a special celebration on Free Republic!!!

I don't know why I have such animosity towards him but he really creeps me out. They sell electric razors everywhere! Use it, whiskers are for cats!!!

Our secret mole inside Sea Shepherd will continue to provide us all with the latest details from the vegan fools.

On that note I think I'll eat a hamburger! :P

Thanks Pan for improving the mood around here! You are DA BEST!

[jonascord]

Explain to me what is wrong with putting an RPG thru the bridge windows of the Sea Shepard, and while the lousy hippies are dealing with that, sending over a boarding party of ex-North Koreans, who can open the sea cocks.

Machine gun everyone still in the water, if you don't want to trust hypothermia, and there is nothing left but an oil slick.

It wouldn't be the first mystery of the sea...

Whaling will die with the last of the Japanese whalers. No one in Japan wants whale meat, and it' survival depends on tradition, like manufacturing buggy whips and top hats.

[bray]

What would it cost to deliver some whale steaks to the Bob Barker?

[faucetman]

I can’t wait for the new season to begin. I love the TV show. While I know they are all Commies, I still thank them for what they do. They stop some of the illegal killing of whales and other marine animals. This is a good thing. They are radical. I like that. They believe in their cause. I like that. They are inept sailors, and someone is going to get killed eventually. They have been lucky so far. I wish them all well.

[Secret Agent Man]

I am tired of both sides.

Tired of the Japanese continuing to lie to the rest of the world, when everyone knows they are, yet they keep doing it.

Tired of liberal knobs playing “pirate”.

Personally I would love to see all the pirate ships and all the “research” whalers sink to the bottom of the oceans.

[MarMema]

""A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
Albert Einstein.

[7MMmag]

Paul Watson;

"We have not rammed them and we have not..."

Whoa. Back up a second. "Have not rammed"? Uh, Mr. Watson, you have televised to the world your own doing of that very thing, with yourself at the helm personally. Not only that, but there have been many attempts to foul propellers & steering gear. At great risk to your own people's lives.

I'm sure the Japs can tell the more complete story, better than I.

Simultanously, but quitely behind the scenes, while this court filing in the U.S. is wending it's way through the process, the Japs could issue Letter of Marque and Reprisal and equip a couple of vessel with heavy-duty RF jamming gear, powerful enough on any and all frequencies the Sea Shepherd folks might be using.

Cut the satellite up-link first. Jam any SSB they attempted to broadcast on immediately thereafter. Close quarters, board 'em to make arrests, and if encountering anything like armed resistance, sink them, then pick up the survivors. Have an on board brig or jail outfitted with enough holding cells for all Sea Shepherd personnel. (There will be more than one Sea Shepherd vessel around, most likely)

Put the mouthiest ones in chains. Leg irons. Give Watson the full chain-up treatment. Hold him incommunicado. Treat the captives well overall, as per international conventions. Feed them good enough...don't actually force them to eat whale meat, but one could offer them some, hehheh...

Take them to Japan, put them on trial there.

[PIF]

As the winter deepens in the US and as Obama continues to move to cut off power generation and kill fossil fuels, we will soon need the services of these Japanese fishermen to bring whale oil to the masses to keep them warm and their homes well lit.