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We are ready to die to stop Japanese whaling: Sea Shepherd
xinhuanet ^
| 2011-10-05
| staff
Posted on 10/05/2011 10:53:11 PM PDT by Rabin
The Sea Shepherd has become increasingly successful in recent years in disrupting the Japanese whaling, last summer forcing Japan's whaling fleet to head home early, and led Japanese whalers to obtain only 17 percent of their whaling quota.
Japanese government on Tuesday announced the research whaling program will go ahead later in December, and there are reports that an extra 27 million U.S. dollars worth of security will be added to the whaling fleet.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: hogsaremammals; japan; pirates; sheeparemammals; steersaremammals; whalesaremammals; whalewars; whaling
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To: driftdiver
Since they don't seize the Japanese ships, don't steal anything from them, don't harm anyone, are they actually pirates?
I am beginning to doubt that you are serious. Is this how you should sound and act as a conservative?
To: Chainmail
They fearless leader boarded one of the ships and tried to kidnap the captain.
They endanger hundreds of lives.
I doubt you are rational or a freedom loving person.
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posted on
10/06/2011 6:49:13 AM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: who_would_fardels_bear
These Japanese fisherman are whalers and you are talking about shark fin soup. Get your facts straight before you try any community organizing.
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posted on
10/06/2011 6:51:45 AM PDT
by
SunTzuWu
To: golux
“and they do it well.”
If that was true the Japanese wouldn’t be there. Those hippies are a danger to their own safety and violate international law by trying to disable vessels at sea.
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posted on
10/06/2011 7:06:41 AM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
To: Chainmail
The Minke whales the Japs harvest are not rare. That said, one wonders just how many are needed for scientific study. Two or three? A few dozen maybe?
Meanwhile, the the self-appointed "sea shepherds" are in fact guilty of high seas piracy. They have no charter, no commission, no actual authority to try to enforce anything.
They have no real "law" to enforce in the first place.
The sea shepherds (lower case deliberate) are extra-judicial eco-moralists, whom have always been destructive, violent extremists. Eco-terrorists, if you will.
It is a credit to much of the rest of humanity, that no one has blown Paul Watson's head off. Yet.
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posted on
10/06/2011 8:02:37 AM PDT
by
7MMmag
To: Chainmail
I have no idea why there is so much hostility against the Sea Shepherds....................Because they are hardline Leftists who engage in criminal acts.
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posted on
10/06/2011 8:21:37 AM PDT
by
Balding_Eagle
(Overproduction, one of the top five worries of the American Farmer each and every year..)
To: Rabin
We are ready to die to stop Japanese whaling: Sea ShepherdThat can be arranged!
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posted on
10/06/2011 8:22:12 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
To: Chainmail
I don't like "hippies" either but I don't see any conservative volunteers.. We should support the defense of scarce and intelligent creatures.Support it through the proper channels; the U.N., world courts, etc., not by enabling pirate scum. I am not in favor of whaling, but I am even less in favor of the Sea Shepherd types.
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posted on
10/06/2011 8:31:55 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
To: driftdiver
Our diet should be limited to TOFU and water, that way no animals are hurt.But eating TOFU (sounds like something that smells bad, harvested from between the toes of an unwashed hippie!) deprives a potential Soybean plant of life by processing its seed! And drinking the water deprives some other desrving creature of using it until we have processed and recycled it!
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posted on
10/06/2011 8:39:00 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
To: Chainmail
...the Japanese are flouting international law to hunt whales.So, I assume that when "International Law" declares that we all must be disarmed, you will ungrudgingly comply?
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posted on
10/06/2011 8:43:43 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
To: JimRed
LOL! National sovereignty? What the hell is that?
To: JimRed
1. The Japanese bought off "the proper channels" - they are industriously denuding the oceans of everything that swims, walks, crawls or flies to make it into Japanese poop. Those are our oceans too...
2. Don't be ridiculous; international regulations can't contravene our own Constitution or intrdue into our personal rights as defined by that Constitution.
I reiterate: the oceans belong to all of us and our descendants - not just the nations who overfish/violate treaties to get yet more, such as the Japanese are doing with cetacians.
I'm surprised at you - aren't these the same silly buggers who tried to take over part of the world and cost us hundreds of thousands of our young men to finally pound back into their borders?
To: Hacksaw
And you really talk to them or are you admitting it is just your opinion?
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posted on
10/06/2011 1:59:52 PM PDT
by
packrat35
(America is rapidly becoming a police state that East Germany could be proud of!)
To: Codeflier
Amazing the number of hippie tree hugging freaks that are on FR now.
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posted on
10/06/2011 2:01:08 PM PDT
by
packrat35
(America is rapidly becoming a police state that East Germany could be proud of!)
To: Chainmail
“they are industriously denuding the oceans of everything that swims, walks, crawls or flies”
you really are an idiot
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posted on
10/06/2011 5:12:26 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Chainmail
We should support the defense of scarce and intelligent creatures. Over 99% of all species that have ever inhabited this planet are extinct....who cries for them?
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posted on
10/06/2011 5:15:53 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Rabin
it is open season on moonbats
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posted on
10/06/2011 5:31:43 PM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 ..posted from the great river road)
To: golux
I hope the japs sink their ship.
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posted on
10/06/2011 5:34:48 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(Cain/Rubio?)
To: dfwgator
Well, shoot - just let the rest get killed off then.
Makes sense, I guess.
To: driftdiver; Admin Moderator
"you really are an idiot" Thought Jim Robinson didn't allow personal attacks...
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