Posted on 02/16/2010 8:41:56 AM PST by at bay
Been me, I would have left the sobs in the water. They are nothing but pirates and everyone of them need to be hanged.
Why not?
That’s kinda my whole point. These people are NOT anything like Eco terrorists that slam spikes in trees where an innocent person could get injured.
I can’t believe the good folks that are most of the FR would return us to the days where elephants were slaughtered for a pair of ivory tusks.
Those poachers are now shot and killed. The elephants may not make it anyway.
The supreme law in effect at this time is that there is a COMPLETE BAN on commercial whaling by the IWC, of which Japan is a member.
I didn’t make the ban, ask me what my opinion would be if there were no
ban. The phoniest crap of all is these rusting whale slaughtering factories posing as research vessels. What a hoot. Right in there with Dr. Mengele doing research at Auscwitz, although, yes, humans including the unborn are far more important.
Maybe I wouldn’t be as in awe of these creatures had one not surfaced next to my sailboat as she was moored in Monterey Bay. I also think elephants are a pretty awesome species.
To say what the Japanese are doing is legal is to buy into their phony research sham. If they’re not legal, then they’re poachers as Captain Watson has said.
Ronald Reagan saw throught the whalers and threatened retaliation if the Japanese did not abide by the ruled of the IWC of which they are members. They caved and stopped whaling for years.
Is President Reagan to be praised for his action? After all, he shut down the livelihood of all those fine Japanese whale hunters.
Why can’t I order a piano with real ivory or buy elephant ivory?
Because the vision of a herd of elephants slaughtered for their tusks is a sickening vision to most of the world.
And the vision of these poachers slaughtering these magnificent mammals in the name of “research” is also sickening to a lot of the world.
I remember seeing Keiko (willy) in Newport Oregon. What a beautiful intelligent mammal he clearly was. I was sad to hear of his passing.
I know what violence and terror is, so when you call these often times admittedly hapless activists terrorists, you dilute the strength and meaning of the word.
All the comments about the Gil in motion and not a single comment from the other video that shows the thug whalers making hard to starboard at the very last moment.
And then cannon hosing the survivors? What am I missing here? Will somebody please defend the righteous indignation the elephant poachers in Africa are entitled to as they are only trying to make a living?
God bless you Ronald Reagan. You used the power of your office to save thousands of these magnificent creatures. Were you still in office I doubt these activist would have to be the court of last resort as these majestic creatures are spared their lives only by a small group of humans risking theirs.
Dennis Miller is a pretty funny guy and a great conservative in many ways, but I feel sorry that he professes no awe for what nature gives us.
He talked about Caribou like, you seen one you seen’em all. Miller, I wish you and every poster herein could stand next to a thundering herd of thousands of Caribou as they stampede by.
I wish people would develop a reverance for these whales as well.
Yeah. The whalers decks might get smelly. Big wow.
That amnesty bill was a big mistake. Sorry, no affinity for rats although I did once have a white rat as a pet. Neglected it and it starved to death.
Is it possible to feel badly about a rat? Ask a ten year old how he feels after starving one to death.
The need to keep a hostile ship from using its photonic disruptors.
I think as fellow mammals, we should give them deference in the seas.Cows are mammals, so are pigs.
“I wish people would develop a reverance for these whales as well.”
ROTFLMAO!
If the last guy believes in UFO’s I’d agree he was a wacko, but I’m not sure that title of his book means he does. Other than that, a pretty upstanding bunch since you ask me.
You say Sea Shepherds actions are analogous to someone opposing cattle ranching attacking thr ranchers. I don’t buy the analogy.
Does Watson have the right to get on his loudspeaker and state :
“Japanese whalers, you are whaling in an internationally recognized whale sanctuary. Cease and desist.”
You break the law, you get sued or arrested. Neither have apparently happened to Watson.
Is there really no difference between African elephants and whales and common farm animals? Many on this don’t think there is.
“You break the law, you get sued or arrested. Neither have apparently happened to Watson.”
Talk to the Faroe police department clown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFGmR99-D0k&NR=1
Is it or is it not illegal to willfully ram other vessels sir?
And did or didn’t that black flagged vessel ram that Maru vessel?THAT is an illegal act ON VIDEO sir.
It would behoove you to cease lying immediately.
Curious that he not only identified himself as a FReeper, but also gave his screen name.
That’s definitely zot material.
Why is this creep still here?
It's one of life's enduring mysteries.
Like how is it that a chocolate dipped fudgecicle can melt inside the crust while the crust is still quite frozen.
So there's another one to add to my list.
I’ve had it happen and gone “What the..”
Then the missus comes by, grabs my ice cream, and runs.
That too is a mystery.
I'd link to it, but men aren't allowed to see it.
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