Posted on 08/21/2010 5:40:29 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
I grew up in the Tidewater Virginia area near Jamestown. I had a hard time not throwing my popcorn at the screen.
Ha ha Ha!
I have been to that area many times. My Best GF lives in VA Beach. A Short hop on the Harley from Boston MA, Where I used to Live.
Now, since I live in FL, It’s a little further.
I used to drive around VA all the time when i would Ride in DC For Rolling Thunder! Ah those were the Days!
They're preventing illegal whaling in a whale sanctuary. This is something NOONE is doing.
Really.
It's like eating dogs. Grow the F up.
Let something God created have a few years of unmolested freedom, sheesh.
Yarr! Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum......
To bad the Girly man hippies would rather love a Whale....
The comparison is remarkable, yes?
However, if you go back and watch the very, very old movies throughout our history, you will find that there is NOTHING NEW under the SUN.
Practically EVERY movie you have ever seen has been a REMAKE of some older movie.
Some are so blatant, they don’t even change much of the script, just the costumes.
As for "This is something NOONE is doing", thankfully this is true. Conservatives usually support rule of law and don't support and/or endorse unlawful activity. Obviously and sadly, as evidenced by you, there are exceptions.
You're absolutely right. Let's start with cows, pigs and chickens. Soyburger, anyone?
I watch the show because it’s “whale-killing bad guys versus douchy sanctimonious bad guys” and I love to watch them fight each other.
Both sides suck but it makes for good TV.
Didn’t she get arrested for drugs? I swear she got sent to the slammer not too long ago.
“Oh come on. There is no reason to hunt whales now.”
Using that great logic, there is no reason to hunt anything at all now - squirrels, rabbits, deer, elk, etc.
Perhaps the truth is that there is no reason you like...
I’ll give you one reason. People eat them. They choose to eat them. I have no idea why, but then, I don’t eat rabbit either - nor prevent others from doing so.
If there is a sustainable population, I have no problems with it.
I am an anti-whaling FReeper however I do not support the hippies. In an ideal world I would like to see the Australian Navy sink every single one of the Japanese harpoon ships to the bottom of the ocean.
The Japanese whalers are COMMERCIALLY whaling in AUSTRALIAN waters.
People get pissed about the various nations drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and that is international waters.
The Whale Sanctuary is in Australian waters.
However, one thing you will find on these threads are people who equate anti whaling as being Sea Shepherd worshipers.
There are many of us who are conflicted, I personally eat meat and could not be a vegan for a day.
I like whales, I don't think they should be tortured for thirty minutes as what happens when you harpoon a whale. That's just my belief and opinion.
There are others who see the issue completely different and could care less if whales went extinct.
As far as Sea Shepherd goes Paul Watson has an ego the size of Obama. You can see this in every episode where he always claims he'll die for the whales but never volunteers to go board a vessel. The guy is a narcissist, and a nut job. And ultimately, hurt legitimate anti whaling sentiment.
I hate to support Sea Shepherd but launching buteric (sp) acid, and paint on a ship isn't the same as cutting someone's head off while chanting to Allah.
They may be fools, hippies, disgusting, ect... but they are not terrorists. They are just liberals and as we all know liberalism is a mental disorder. They need to be medicated not arrested.
That I can agree with and I did say that "legally" they can hunt minke whales because they are not endangered, however they do have a quota to kill fin whales which are endangered as well as humpback whales.
Over the 20th Century you went from millions of whales to hundred thousands, and that growth to hundred thousands only occurred when commercial whaling was banned in 1986.
Whoever, said it's bad guys vs. bad guys is correct.
Anyone here who honestly believes that the Japanese whalers are doing scientific work should go work for the Obama Administration. But the hippies are putting their lives on the line for attention so they are bad.
So it is truly, bad guys vs. bad guys, IMO.
I never said it was the same. I said it was terrorism and it is. If you don’t think so consider this; if you were out on your boat and they buzzed you with a helicopter, rammed you, threw stink bombs on your deck, dropped ropes in front of you with the intent of fouling your prop(s) and boarded your ship while armed you might reconsider. These are terrorist acts as described by the hippies themselves.
Furthermore, as exposed recently, the Japanese have been caught bribing small nations for their votes to expand whaling.
In the end, I support Sea Sheperd's lawful means of interdiction.
Come on, my dog could run a ship better than the hippies! They can't do anything right, always screw everything up, never successfully prop fouled anything, had their own ships destroyed. It is like watching Benny Hill, all that is missing is the music.
The only point you bring up about violence is Pete Bethune boarding the Shonan Maru 2, I don't think the "Admiral" was aware of this because he ALWAYS plays the victim card to the press.
Anyone with half a brain could tell you that Pete Bufoon, is a whack job, I don't think he had any intention of stabbing anyone on the Shonan Maru, he just wanted to get arrested so that they could go running to the press like tattle tails.
But, I still don't consider it terrorism. Real terrorism is what is occurring in Yemen, Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan, and we have 3 attacks here 1 successful (Fort Hood). The hippies are cowards and incompetent.
I know you'd probably rather gouge your eyes out but watch Season 1 of Whale Wars and you will see what a psychotic Paul Watson is. HE is putting his crew in danger and he is knowingly doing so.
If anyone ANYONE from Sea Shepherd is arrested it should be him. He always sends others to do his dirty work, but when things go bad he goes into his cabin and locks the door.
Then allow me to bring up further instances of violence. Ramming and/or deliberately colliding with another ship is violent and the hippies have done that twice. I would also say throwing objects on the deck of a ship is violent. If you don't think so just consider if they were to follow your boat around the ocean repeatedly throwing stink bombs on your deck. Would you not feel terrorized?
I'm not for whaling and I'm not defending the whalers. The Sea Shepherd freaks however, are dangerous and I'll predict they won't stop until someone is killed, perhaps even one of their own.
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