[ohioman]

When it comes to the Japanese Whalers vs. Smelly Hippies Failing badly, I am pulling for the Japanese.

[golux]

YO FREEPERS!

THIS IS NOT AL GORE'S PARTY.

The Japanese are a bunch of international BS artists; preying on depleted whale pops. (And please lay off the oh, silly golux, don't you know that the yellow-bellied hunch-fin minke is NOT depleted in the southwesternmost part of the Sea of Marmara? What are you some kind or enviro-wacko? crap.)

Americans owe a lot to whalers, whaling, and whales. We don't owe jack to the Japs.

I and plenty of sensible right wingers (such as almost all of my friends) applaud the Shepherds - they do one thing and focus on it like a laser.

Yeah you tell a North Atlantic US or Maritime provinces fisherman we should protect the 'right' of Japanese, Russian, and Chinese to utterly, usually illegally, deplete stocks, often right off our shore.

We need MORE Sea Shepherds, and Letters of Marque for goodness sakes.