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To: mnehring

“Sea shepherd’s vessel rammed the whalers.”

Right. A little few ton racing vessel is going to ram a huge steel hulled vessel. Anyway, to anyone that has spent time at sea (years, not a Sunday boating afternoon) the video is indeed clear, and outrageous.

The whaling thugs not only sunk the small boat, they then tried to knock the survivors to their death!

What, a lotta you posters got mail order brides from the Rising Sun?


20 posted on 02/16/2010 9:01:35 AM PST by at bay (My father was born with 28 ounces of flesh in 1924 then went on to become Mr. (Glenn) Holland.)
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To: at bay
Right. A little few ton racing vessel is going to ram a huge steel hulled vessel.

No one ever said they were smart. At that, the general consensus is they are idiots. However, the video is clear. You can see the Japanese ship going pretty much in a straight line and the smaller vessel accelerate (based on the wake) right into the larger ship.

What, a lotta you posters got mail order brides from the Rising Sun?

Getting a little racist are we? Figures, leftist hippies usually are.

24 posted on 02/16/2010 9:05:34 AM PST by mnehring
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To: at bay

“What, a lotta you posters got mail order brides from the Rising Sun?”

Now how is that important and NOT a knee jerk reaction on your part?
What do you have against Asians?


28 posted on 02/16/2010 9:11:43 AM PST by Darksheare (Tar is cheap, and feathers are plentiful.)
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To: at bay

There are no terrorists anywhere around here. These are just amusement park flags.


29 posted on 02/16/2010 9:12:06 AM PST by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: at bay
Right. A little few ton racing vessel is going to ram a huge steel hulled vessel.

You are right, sort of. The video clearly shows that the little few-ton racing vessel actually ran in front of the huge steel-hulled vessel, and was run over.

A little passenger car isn't going to just run into a train, but sometimes they stupidly drive in front of trains and the trains hit them. And everybody knows it's not the train's fault.

Doing stupid things and hoping your opponent will do anything to not harm you isn't a wise strategy, especially if you know your opponend has replaced the whalers (who you seem to villify, but who the article clearly states would do almost anything NOT to harm the terrorists) with security people who seem much less concerned with protecting you from your own stupidity.

35 posted on 02/16/2010 9:15:40 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: at bay
Right. A little few ton racing vessel is going to ram a huge steel hulled vessel.

Key word here: RACING vessel. The eco-terrorists had the faster and more maneuverable vessel. It chose to get in the way of the bigger vessel. From the video I saw, they seemed to have been trying to deploy something out the back of the Gil, perhaps something to lay in the path of the Jap ship and foul its propellers. They played chicken with a bigger ship, and they lost.

I would not be upset if the Japanese hosed them down with machine guns.

48 posted on 02/16/2010 9:25:46 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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To: at bay
. Responsibilities Between Vessels
Except in narrow channels, traffic schemes, and when overtaking (i.e. rules 9, 10, and 13)
A power-driven vessel must give way to:
NUC a vessel not under command;
CBD a vessel constrained by draft
RAM a vessel restricted in ability to maneuver

The “little racing vessel” would not have the right away. maybe the sea shepherd folks should look to the Graf Spree's captain for an example

57 posted on 02/16/2010 9:31:44 AM PST by sticker
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To: at bay
The whaling thugs not only sunk the small boat, they then tried to knock the survivors to their death!

Gosh, I sure hope so. Too bad they failed.

EcoNazi scum are nothing more than Communists who want the destruction of all humanity.

111 posted on 02/16/2010 10:21:03 AM PST by Lazamataz
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To: at bay

“Right. A little few ton racing vessel is going to ram a huge steel hulled vessel”

Watch the video, troll....
It’s VERY CLEAR that the Eco-terrorists PANICKED, and went forward instead of back.

The Japanese should send a FRIGATE to legally send these idiot eco-pirates to the whales they love so much!
Introduce them to the bottom of the food chain.

SOUTHPARK WAS DEAD-ON ABOUT YOU CLOWNS...


136 posted on 02/16/2010 10:42:33 AM PST by tcrlaf (Obama White House=Tammany Hall on the National Mall)
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To: at bay

“Right. A little few ton racing vessel is going to ram a huge steel hulled vessel”

Scumbag hippie libs do not THINK, they EMOTE.


146 posted on 02/16/2010 10:49:32 AM PST by Grunthor (America needs Obamacare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.)
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To: 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.


341 posted on 02/16/2010 7:55:32 PM PST by sport
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