Posted on 02/27/2013 11:05:06 AM PST by jazusamo
That’s true, I worded like the video was labeled.
Amen to that, it should have happened long ago.
I agree. No heroes on either side.
I was not directing it to you but more to the idiots that wrote the piece
No problem, FRiend!
“The outspoken opinion, which reads at times more like “Moby Dick” than a court decision...”
Gee, I have no idea what opinion the writer of the article holds on this.
the japanese are blatantly violating thge whaling treaty, and lying to us all they are not, and are upset we all don’t buy their lies.
the idiot libtard pirates are idiots and whine little little bitches about getting roughed up. if you want to be a pirate, you’re going to get roughed up in fights.
i personally would not mind both sides at the bottom of the ocean.
the liars are breaking international treaty law against whaling. they are lying they are only doing it for research. if they weren’ t lying they wouldn’t be breaking intl law. not everyone swallows their blatant lying.
I hear you. Remember this was printed in The Oregonian and they’re in the lib bastion of Portland. :-)
Arghhh....
I could believe that to keep up the ruse, they "donate" the whale parts to people who use the parts for "nutrition" studies. In return, the study recipients donate monies for furtherance of the research, ie, killing more whales...
...but as I said, they need to kill each other to end this "standoff"...
I was thinking along the same lines. Now that they are officially pirates, it’s pretty much open season on them. I wonder what one of those harpoon cannon would do to the pilothouse?
Piracy on the high seas can be punished by any country, under an old legal doctrine called "universal jurisdiction." The doctrine goes back to Roman law, under which pirates were considered hostes humani generis, enemies of the entire human race.
US Constitution, Article I, Section 8:
"To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;"
Congress defined "piracy" and the Courts are simply upholding this Constitutional law and power.
They aren’t actually breaking a treat or a law. They’re breaking an agreement which has no force of law behind it on any level. They’re in an international group, which has no treaties behind it and is basically just a club, and they’re breaking one of the rules of the group.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Whaling_Commission
I realize the Japanese are not Americans and thus may not in the minds of some be accorded the same assumption of innocence we enjoy here in America. So in your mind are they guilty before until proven innocent? You sure make it sound that way.
The ICRW makes an exception that whales can be taken for scientific purposes and that is what Japan claims it is doing. Until it is proven otherwise in a court of law they have not broken any laws. Conversely, the lawless band of hippie pirates have been found guilty on several counts; heck, they even brag about it. They risk peoples' lives. To my knowledge the Japanese whalers actions do not come close to doing that, unless, of course, you want to blame them for the hippies steering their boat in front of the larger ship. I don't.
Sure thing, comrade. Innocent until proven guilty apparently means nothing to you. So be it.
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