The good Captain Watson wanted to actually shoot an unarmed vessel with a freaking cannon! Did he take a eco terrorist approved anger management course, and now he is OK in your book? He is a pirate and an international criminal.
Those idiots on the Ady Gil almost got themselves killed trying to foul the props on the Japanese ship. As you well know the Ady Gil is solely responsible for the accident as the Ady Gil had to give right of way. Instead they accelerated in to the path of an oncoming vessel. Unfortunately they misjudged and got hit instead.
The fact is, that the Sea Shepherd folks are either poor sailors or reckless. In either case they are still eco terrorists and you are a supporter of them.
BTW this is from last week.
February 13th, 2010 by
Three Japanese whalers have suffered minor injuries after yet another violent attack from the radical animal rights group Sea Shepherd:
The protest boats, which sail under Dutch and Togolese flags, had earlier targeted its factory ship the Nisshin Maru – nicknamed “the floating abbatoir” by Sea Shepherd activists – and had been following it for several days in the lead up to the skirmish yesterday afternoon.
“The Dutch and Togolese ships continued for several hours their attack launching many butyric-acid projectiles and smoke bombs against the Nisshin Maru,” the institute said in a statement.
The Bob Barker repeatedly fired a high-power illegal laser weapon against the Japanese crew. The Bob Barker also came directly across the bow of the Nisshin Maru deploying wire hawsers intended to sabotage its rudder and propeller.
“At about 2300 hours, three of the Shonan Maru No. 2 sailors who were readying to prevent any activist illegal boarding became victims of the Sea Shepherd projectiles, receiving acid-splash chemical injury to their eyes and face.”
He’s fat.
The Japanese ought to deploy Navy vessels and simply sink the EcoWeenies.
“At about 2300 hours, three of the Shonan Maru No. 2 sailors who were readying to prevent any activist illegal boarding became victims of the Sea Shepherd projectiles, receiving acid-splash chemical injury to their eyes and face.”
This is the lie for which Captain Watson is demanding an apology from the Japanese director of Fisheries. These crewmen were attempting to pepper spray the Sea Shepherds when blowback got it in their own eyes. What do they call that? Instant karma? Amazing how y’all take the scoundrel poachers words for everything.