Hey Paul Watson, you whale-loving pirate. The Japs have issued an arrest warrant against you. You can run but you can't hide from the JMSDF.
Trust me, they'll blow the Sea Shepherd out of the water.
Posted on 04/29/2010 11:15:05 PM PDT by myknowledge
Japan plans to seek an international arrest warrant against the leader of the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd over tense high-seas clashes, the nation's public broadcaster says.
The Japan Coast Guard has obtained an arrest warrant in Tokyo against 59-year-old Canadian Paul Watson for allegedly instructing members of his group to obstruct Japan's whaling mission and causing injury to Japanese crew, NHK said on Friday.
Japan will seek his arrest through the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol), NHK said.
No immediate confirmation of the report was available from the coast guard.
The last ship of Japan's Antarctic whaling fleet sailed home this month with the smallest catch in years. Whalers blame the shortfall on high seas clashes with the environmental group Sea Shepherd.
This season's confrontations in icy Antarctic waters saw the sinking of a Sea Shepherd vessel and the arrest of one of its activists, a New Zealander who faces trial in Japan.
Peter Bethune was indicted on April 2 for trespass, injuring a person, carrying a weapon, vandalism and obstructing commercial activities - charges that could see him jailed for up to 15 years.
Bethune, 45, was the captain of the Sea Shepherd's Ady Gil, a futuristic powerboat that sank after it was sliced in two in a collision with the whaling fleet's security ship Shonan Maru II in early January.
Hey Paul Watson, you whale-loving pirate. The Japs have issued an arrest warrant against you. You can run but you can't hide from the JMSDF.
Trust me, they'll blow the Sea Shepherd out of the water.
Good. Regardless of Watson’s convictions, or the dubious ‘scientific’ purposes of the whalers, what he’s doing is criminal and he should be arrested.
Its about time.
Is that a photo of the security ship and the thug’s boat being sliced in two?
Yaaaaarrrrrr... ye be right me maitee...
A long drop on a short rope for the lot of ‘em.
No, it’s a Japanese destroyer’s bow being torn after a collision with a South Korean destroyer during a naval exercise.
Sorry, I got to go along with Watson on this one. I think Whaling is hideous and Japan is barbaric with their whaling practices. They’ve fished out the waters in and around Japan and they are fishing out the seas in the rest of the world so every Japanese can eat fish three meals a day. Outrageous. Japan will not stop this practice until confronted. Japan is totally in the wrong on this issue. I know this won’t be a popular post with some of the troglodytes here on FR but so be it.
Paul Watson (who apparently thinks he is KotW) is playing a dangerous game, endangering lives and interfering with what is presumably legal under international treaties. If his ship gets split in two again, I won't shed tears for him.
Furthermore, if you examine humanity's inhumanity to man, you will find that there are bigger fish to fry in this world.
NO Japanese eats three fish meals a day . Out of 21 a week I’d say fish meals would average to 6-7 .
That is JMSDF’s Kurama (DDH 144) after the collision with the South Korean container ship Carina Star on October 27, 2009. The Kurama was returning to Sasebo through the rather confined Kanmon Strait. The collision happened within sight of the Kanmon Bridge, possibly due to a lanes violation.
For FReeper information: here are the numbers on Japanese Whaling (hat tip to mherling)
The Japanese kill roughly 900 Minke whales, 100 Sei whales, 50 Bryde's whales, 10 Fin whales and three sperm whales each year.
Minke whales are not threatened. They are categorized "Least Concern", and there are about 660,000 Minke whales globally. The Japanese therefore harvest about 1 whale out of every 750 Minke whales.
Sei whales: Even though they are formally listed as endangered, there are an estimated 54,000 Sei whales. So the Japanese harvest 1 whale out of every 540. This is not a threat to extinction.
Bryde's whales: Japanese take 50 a year, and there are 100,000 of them globally.
Fin Whales: Japanese take 10 a year, and there are about 100,000 globally.
Sperm Whales: The Japanese harvest three a year. The world population of Sperm Whales is unknown, but is thought to be in the hundreds of thousands.
Hope this is helpful.
Japanese people have access to the same foods you do, do you really believe they eat fish 3 times a day?
By the way, whales are mammals.
I know this won’t be a popular post with some of the troglodytes here on FR but so be it.
You're better than that.
The Japanese should end the lie that their whaling is for “research”. At least Greenpeace is honest as to their purpose is in this.
The Japanese individually, generally consume far less food than Americans, Britons, or French.
The more whales they catch, the less Global Warming will flood out sea level communities.
Ergo, by attacking whaling vessels, environmentalists manifest their attack of shoreline communities.
“Sorry, I got to go along with Watson on this one. “
Greenpeace, Watson’s communist baby, was started by and funded by the soviet communist KGB. Watson has publicly stated that boys who hunt birds should be shot.
You want to associate yourself with a goosestepping Stalinist, and you call Freepers troglodytes?
You’re some piece of work.
Whaling is fishing.
Believing the envirowackos is to be duped
You are a duped one
An international warrant: oh boy, it going to darlings of the left against each other, be the World Court vs. the whale lovers. I’ll have to stock up on popcorn for this.
The Japanese should end the lie that their whaling is for “research”. At least Sea Shepherd, or whatever, is honest as to their purpose is in this.
Hopefully the Japanese will consult with the French on how to handle Greenpeace.
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