Greenpeace is a terrorist group
Actually, Greenpeace doesn't do squat. They take pictures of the whales getting harpooned but don't take action, they just complain like children.
The Whale Wars bunch take action by throwing rotten butter on the ships but it doesn't end there. I have no idea what they did before they started filming whale wars but this is what they've done since they started whale wars.
1. Send two hippies to board a whale ship so they could be held hostage and the fat slob could call the media.
2. Ram the Japanese vessel in a shitty ship that isn't even protected against ice.
3. Fat slob Captain gets shot by the Japanese (I don't know if it is real or fake although I wouldn't blame the Japs for shooting him, I'd mistake him for a whale too.)
4. Send 4 women on a "boarding" mission because the fat slob thinks having women as hostages is a good idea, and in the process one woman nearly breaks her hip.
5. Buy a super expensive bat man boat and have it get run over and destroyed by a Japanese Harpoon Ship.
6. Finally, go on Larry King and try to pretend that it's all about the whales but admit that you are actually getting paid to do all of this.
Yeah so for me, Greenpeace are actually the good guys in this battle.
And if anyone is wondering what the wonderful prize of humanity is up to now? They are protecting Tuna Fish in the Mediterranean Sea.
I'm betting they have another show, "TUNA WARS!" They are actually getting shot at this time though, someone shot flares at them, unfortunately none landed...
Don’t know if it’s Greenpeace or some Whale group, but whomever has been boarding Japanese whalers should be charged with piracy. Also, those lobbing rancid butter [which can damage the eyes] should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
RE the Somalian pirates, their case seems to be that because they are failed pirates, they should be let off the hook?
Think it’s time for letters of Marque.
Of course, there isn’t much to salvage from a seized pirate vessel, but perhaps a bounty upon receipt of videotape documentation of the piracy attempt. Along, with documentation of the Marque ship scuttling the pirate ships with all hands. Shippers could proportionally fund the account based on some combination of cargo value/weight and ship replacement value. Create an international corporation to oversee management and disbursement of awards. Interested parties would have their vessel [maybe offer a special loan program for maritime entrepreneurs] and crew approved by the company and dues paying members. The vessels and their crews would be it’s own corporate entity- thereby ring-fencing the disbursement company from liability. Would be cheaper than the individual ransoms and likely remove large numbers of likely pirates from the area. Paying pirates or mercenaries still boils down to a protection racket, but somehow the latter seems more appealing. Maybe stipulate that all crews to be drawn from ranks of honorably discharge ex-navy, seal, coastie, marine, etc, etc. [even from other countries. The Russians seem singularly determined folks]
It would help unemployment, keep fit men [and women] doing something they love and help local economies when they pull into port by promoting sales of condoms and service oriented small businesses, lol.
As Chevy Chase said in Nation Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, ‘Fixed the newel post!!’