and the RATS, take another one in the..............................HA ha!!!
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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“It will be interesting to see how Japan treats pirates.”
Put them in the slammer and have them eat live snails for their meals.
My father was in the Navy and fought the Japanese in the South Pacific in WWII. He took direct fire from them, and had buddies killed by them. He also understands something else: they lost the war - they surrendered. They submitted to our taking over their country and re-making it with USA-style governement - as they should have after what they did.
And you know what?? On business trips that he took to Japan in the 1960's, from what he told me, he found that the vast majority of the people in Japan are very nice, good-hearted people, who are very kind, and are nothing like the thugs who ran the country in the first half of the twentieth century.
By the 1980's as the quality of American cars declined, he even switched to buying Japanese cars, as did our entire family. When I eventually met and married a Japanese woman, he had no big problem with it.
BTW - my dad is VERY much a Conservative, who likes Rush Limbaugh, and supports Sarah Palin.
Japan has learned it's lesson as much as any country is capable of doing so, and has been one of our most loyal allies for more than half a century now. Without turning a blind eye to Pearl Harbor, and the horrible attrocities their military committed in WWII, it is possible to say that the Japan of today is a very different nation than it was then. They have also proven themselves to be very good friends of ours in a part of the world that is very hostile to our interests.
My dad realizes that, unlike the moslems you mention, the Japanese were capable of learning their lesson, and reforming. Yes, they and Germany committed attrocities in WWII, but like intelligent people, they learned from their mistakes (albeit by force), and they changed. The moslems do not seem to be capable of the same thing, as they have not changed their behavior in centuries.
GOOD!
Uh huh. And what do you do for a living?’’ Destroy marine mammals’’ Is that the same as ‘’destroying poultry?’’
All due respect to your Dad but when the ‘’Japs’’ admit to what they did to other Asians and to Allied prisoners of war and stop weeping about Hiroshima and Nagasaki maybe I’ll believe they’re ‘’nice people’’.
Oh, SHEETHEADS, I get it! good one!
Give me a break. The indians in Alaska and Canada have hunted whales since before Columbus and continue to do so.
They do so by special permission which may involve a permit. They also are limited on the number they may catch. They were given a grandfather clause because whale hunting was a major part of their culture and cuisine.
In the meantime the Japanese signed a treaty to limit their whaling and are supposed to be able to only kill whales for research. They misuse the research clause and are killing whales for reasons other than research. This allows them to circumvent the number they agreed upon. From what I've read whale meat is falling out of favor in Japan.
I don't particularlly agree with the protestor's methods because it endangers not only the protestors but also the Japanese crews.
One thing can be said though. While I think the protestors are idiots, they at least are willing to die for their cause. It may come a day when we want people on our side who are as willing to give up all in order to save our Republic.
His vocabulary is not as offensive as your trying to shut him up.
Our Congress is so busy doing things for which they lack any authority, they seem to have forgotten how to do something for which they explicitly have authority! And we should remember what the Founding Fathers mainly thought of as "piracy" wouldn't have been Hollywood's version of the Jolly Roger, already a thing of the past, but the very current and expensive actions of the "Barbary" Pirates, greatly paralleling our current problems. Unless we've somehow given up this right by treaty, Congress can on its own, without approval of any other country, authorize whatever is needed. Now it may be in our interest to proceed somewhat diplomatically, but claiming to be unable to act is nuts. If we gave up the right by treaty than signing and ratifying that treaty was nuts and it should be added to the lengthy list of bad laws, executive orders, treaties and regulations needing conversion to CO2.
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“The indians in Alaska and Canada have hunted whales since before Columbus and continue to do so.”
Speaking of the price of tea in China...
“This is a Conservative web site, and we Conservatives are not opposed to hunting and fishing around here.”
Good to know that you speak for everyone. I must have missed the whale-hunting part of the platform when I signed up.
So although I support limited govt, 2A rights, the free market and low taxes, I’m not a conservative because I am bothered by Asians massacring whales?
I hope that you are merely and outlier, and don’t represent the overall tenor of FR.
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I hope this POS pirate enjoys his incarceration. Japanese jails are just about the worst thing that could happen to a Westerner.Take it to the bank.
I hope all of these idiot protestors (as you say)die for thier cause. Well, I will settle for rotting in a Japanese jail cell.
I only speak for myself so I don’t know who you’re quoting.
But if you sent money now I promise never to to kill or eat whales, never ever ever. and no I’m not a tenor either but that other thing I’m not sure about.
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