International waters, the Sea Shepards committing piracy- I say sink them.
Don't the Japanese cook with rancid butter?
Anyway, at least it wasn't fox urine!
Conservationists?
How about anarchists. Or communists. Or both.
hit right in the fracas with a golf ball, sounds painfull
If they can afford helicopters they can do what other groups do and buy representation in government.
"We were just sailing along, and the Sea Shepherd sank. We don't know why they did. Hope everyone's OK."
Of course they are. What possible research still needs to be done on whales? Orientals eat a huge variety of marine life including dolphins.
“We’re not a protest organization, we’re a policing organization,” Paul Watson has said of his Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS). A pirate organization is more like it. Sporting the skull and crossbones, his black or battleship-gray ships sail menacingly through the waves. They are painted with the names of the boats Watson has rammed and sunk.
The ships are fitted with water cannons, a concrete-filled bow made for ramming, and an attachment dubbed the “can opener” that can tear open a boat’s hull. In his book Earth Warrior, David Morris writes that Watson wears a long bowie knife at his side and carries AK-47s on board. He blasts Richard Wagner’s rousing “Ride of the Valkyries” to herald his arrival and terrify his victims.
SSCS’s mission is to stop fishing of which it disapproves. Its preferred methods? Ramming and sinking fishing ships, throwing butyric acid on their decks, and firing machine guns. Watson argues that United Nations resolutions authorize him to commit violent acts. But he regularly interferes with fisherman and hunters who are committing no crime. He serves as judge, jury, and executioner — while enjoying the same tax-exempt status as universities and churches.
Some of the animal-rights movement’s most notorious terrorists got their start with SSCS. One of them, convicted arsonist Rodney Coronado, had Watson’s approval to plan and execute an attack on Iceland’s whaling industry. He and a colleague sank two of the fleet’s four ships and destroyed a processing facility.
http://www.activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/oid/347
Should've just played Bruce Springsteen really loud. Would've had the same effect.
Not bad for starters. But if the Japanese had any real grit, they’d put sand in the water they were shooting at the protesters. That would make the do-gooders drop their rancid butter!
Not a smart move
I would’ve paid good money to see the water cannon shoot at the helicopter.
This is the reason God invented the 40mm Bofors.
Enviroweenies sprayed with water cannon=bath for enviroweenies
A news clip I’d like to see:
And near Antarctic waters, the Russian whaling ship Ivan Rogov responded to a distress call from the conservationist ship Sea Shepherd. The Sea Shepherd had reported an engine room fire, and went down with all hands before the Ivan Rogov could get to the scene.
BTW, the Ivan Rogov is not a whaling ship.
I don’t understand how these idiots can be allowed to impede a legal activity. Shouldn’t this guy be in jail if he rammed and sank whaling boats in the past? How is it that this is permitted to continue?
It’s enough to make you sign up for a Japanese whaling ship. Go whalers!
Attacking a harpoon ship with an inflatable boat is just downright stupid.