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No, I don’t get to take the law into my own hands even if someone is trespassing on my property. I call the cops. On the other hand, if I lived in a country where it was against the law to hide people that were being rounded up and gassed it is my moral obligation to break that law and hide the persecuted.

I am glad you support the vital research the Japanese are doing with their research ships. It is good you swallow whole their research justification for the slaughter of hundreds of these magnificent mammals. Can you please cite what impressed you most about their research? Is it the almost total lack of publication in respected journals, or killing the objects of their research when their is no justification for doing so. Otherwise it is commercial whaling banned by the IWC decades ago.

I have been in awe of whales since one surfaced next to my sailboat many years ago. My suggestion for you would be to go whale watching, develop a little reverance for these magnifent species, and root for the westerners over the Japanese who you feel such a kindred spirit with.

I'm sure you'd never, ever defend yourself from a home invasion, then. Good luck having law enforcement come to your rescue. Funny thing about law enforcement....their task is not to protect you from all harm and come running whenever you really need their immediate help; their job is to investigate crimes, not prevent them. You can't sue them for failing to prevent someone from slitting your throat or raping you or stealing your car. Your first line of defense from crime is yourself. Abdication of that responsibility is surely woe to yourself. I choose to defend myself, my family, my property and my country from those of the criminal mentality. As for your other obtuse argument regarding a "holocaust", peddle that tripe somewhere else. God's law regarding intentional murder is clear. Expressing dismay that criminals didn't take the final trip to oblivion when they clearly put themselves in harms way is a different matter.

As for the "research" issue....I am under no illusions that the whalers do bonafide "research". However, what they do is legal, is it not? Since it is, those who interfere with the legal whaling are, by definition, criminals. I do not see high seas law enforcement doing much to prevent the do-gooders cum criminals.

Now, you may think it's just dandy to ignore rules when the "greater good", in your own mind, is served. I don't. Can we assume the next person caught shooting an abortion doctor might be you? If not, then why do the lives of whales take greater precedence than the lives of unborn fetuses? Therefore, I reiterate: Too bad the ship didn't sink and all hands be ripped to shreds by voracious sharks and man-eating octopi.

"These are the caliber of posts that some can point to as hate speech. Advocating murdering some PETA nut in the woods makes you someone that might need Japan’s special type of research." Some can point to anything and call it "hate speech". Do you worry about what others may think of your political or social beliefs? To some, your mere presence on this board is indicative of one who practices "hate speech". I don't subscribe to the politically correct canard of "hate speech". I reject it, out of hand. If what I say is "hate speech", too bad. Deal with it.