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Whaling protester to be charged in Japan
AP ^ | Feb 15, 2010 | TANALEE SMITH (AP)

Posted on 02/19/2010 4:02:47 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion

ADELAIDE, Australia — An anti-whaling activist from New Zealand is in custody on a Japanese vessel and will be taken to Japan to face charges after secretly boarding the ship as part of a protest, officials said Tuesday.

Peter Bethune, a member of the U.S.-based Sea Shepherd activist group, jumped aboard the Shonan Maru 2 from a Jet Ski on Monday with the stated goal of making a citizen's arrest of the ship's captain and presenting him with a $3 million bill for the destruction of a protest ship last month.

The Japanese government has decided to bring Bethune to Japan for questioning, Fisheries Agency official Osamu Ishikawa said. He will be charged with trespassing and assault and tried under Japanese law, Ishikawa said.

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To: JimRed

Are you defending what he said and telling me that you would say it too? In case you’ve been asleep for the last sixty years, they’re not the “bad guys” anymore.


21 posted on 02/19/2010 4:32:08 PM PST by 1raider1
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To: JimRed

Me too, and....

Eenee meenie minee mo,
Catch a ........

is said how? ;o)


22 posted on 02/19/2010 4:33:02 PM PST by super7man
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To: 1raider1

‘Please don’t use “japs”. It makes you look small.’

Will “nips’ do?


23 posted on 02/19/2010 4:33:45 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Finally some good news in sea of crap!


24 posted on 02/19/2010 4:37:21 PM PST by Codeflier (Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama - 4 democrat presidents in a row and counting...)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

LOL, I just saw the “South Park” Japanese Whaling episode last night.


25 posted on 02/19/2010 4:40:25 PM PST by R_Kangel (`.`)
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To: 1raider1
In case you’ve been asleep for the last sixty years, they’re not the “bad guys” anymore.

Careful, some of us lost family members at their hands.

26 posted on 02/19/2010 4:40:28 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: 1raider1

Nope, not defending, but understanding the source. And yes, likely as not to say Jap or Kraut. Highly UNLIKELY to ever say Kyke or Polock or Spik or the dreaded “N” word, as I was properly raised by postwar standards.

We’ve got to find a better one for Muslims, though; TowelHead just ain’t cuttin it!

;^)


27 posted on 02/19/2010 4:42:41 PM PST by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., hot enough down there today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed

Never be rude to an Arab...


28 posted on 02/19/2010 4:46:44 PM PST by AndrewB (FUBO)
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To: Retired Greyhound
Dolphin tastes pretty good, never tried any whale.
29 posted on 02/19/2010 4:52:14 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

They should charge him as an enemy combatant and give him a military trial.


30 posted on 02/19/2010 4:52:35 PM PST by BOBWADE
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

I hope the Japanese lock this left-wing commie jerk up in a deep dark hole for a long time. The Japanese are an island nation, and have been hunting and eating whales for centuries. It is a traditional food for them. My wife is Japanese, and she remembers eating whale meat in Japan when she was growing up - they used to be able to buy it in the grocery store like any other meat. She and many Japanese like whale meat a lot, and REALLY resent that the greenie weenies are telling them how to live their lives, and run their country. As a Conservative, I can’t blame them. As long as they are hunting non-engangered species, what they hunt in international waters is their business.


31 posted on 02/19/2010 4:54:26 PM PST by Zetman
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

I hope they execute the bastard!


32 posted on 02/19/2010 5:00:46 PM PST by dalereed
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To: Retired Greyhound

Too bad Japan (Asia really) has such a depraved culture that they would continue their whaling/dolphin hunts.

As opposed to hunting white tail deer in the USA?? Or elk?? Or moose?? Or eating any other kind of sea creatures from the ocean?? This is a Conservative web site, and we Conservatives are not opposed to hunting and fishing around here. Whales are no different from any other game animal. As I said in my previous post - since they are hunting whale species that are not endangered, and doing so in a reasonable manner, it is really no one’s business - as long as they are hunting as ethically as any other hunter anywhere in the world (including the USA) would hunt.


33 posted on 02/19/2010 5:00:57 PM PST by Zetman
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To: 1raider1

Why don’t you go play ‘PC Police’ somewhere else?!


34 posted on 02/19/2010 5:01:35 PM PST by 999replies (Thune/Rubio 2012)
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To: 1raider1
Please don’t use “japs”. It makes you look small.

You may feel different if you lost somebody at Pearl Harbor. The Mooseslimes that attacked the WTC are no different than the japs that attacked Pearl.
35 posted on 02/19/2010 5:03:07 PM PST by John D
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To: JimRed
TowelHead just ain’t cuttin it!

They aren't towels, they are sheets.

36 posted on 02/19/2010 5:05:09 PM PST by Dan(9698)
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To: goseminoles

What other legal activities do you think the rest of us ought to forego?


37 posted on 02/19/2010 5:05:47 PM PST by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War" (my spelling is generally korrect!))
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To: 1raider1
In case you’ve been asleep for the last sixty years, they’re not the “bad guys” anymore.

And what exactly have they been doing that makes them good guys? How much help on the WOT?
38 posted on 02/19/2010 5:11:54 PM PST by John D
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Let him “escape” into the dark waters at night on the way to Japan.


39 posted on 02/19/2010 5:12:42 PM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: Manly Warrior

I don’t understand your question.


40 posted on 02/19/2010 5:13:12 PM PST by goseminoles
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