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Sea Shepherd captain skips bail in Germany
Telegraph - UK ^ | July 26, 2012 | Matthew Day

Posted on 07/26/2012 11:52:57 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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1 posted on 07/26/2012 11:53:06 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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He and his crew are little more than Pirates, taking the law into their own hands, and attacking ships of sovereign nations on the high seas.


2 posted on 07/26/2012 12:00:05 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I hope Watson suffers Jonah’s fate!


3 posted on 07/26/2012 12:02:24 PM PDT by texson66 (In the words of Kent Brockman, "As for myself, I welcome our new commie overlords...")
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To: Venturer
He and his crew are little more than Pirates, taking the law into their own hands, and attacking ships of sovereign nations on the high seas.

Yes, and "Animal Planet" being a subsidiary of Discovery Channel makes them both complicit in funding and supporting these terrorist acts.

4 posted on 07/26/2012 12:05:54 PM PDT by sonofagun (Some think my cynicism grows with age. I like to think of it as wisdom!)
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To: Venturer

“He and his crew are little more than Pirates, taking the law into their own hands, and attacking ships of sovereign nations on the high seas”.

And its all on prime time TV!!!!!!!!!


5 posted on 07/26/2012 12:08:01 PM PDT by Gettin Betta
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I watch Whale Wars just to root for the Japs.

I have a theory about how the show is filmed/taped/whatever. They put all the dweebs on a boat (any boat, it doesn’t matter). For a full week, they roam the boat with a camera and keep walking to one or two dweebs at a time. They announce “We just got a message that your dog has been run over and is dead.” Then they tape the dweeb’s open-mouth reaction.

They create thousands and thousands of these reactions — various dweebs looking horrified.

Then all they do is shoot a few hours of life aboard the real ship — various snippets of the helicopter taking off and landing. A jap ship off in the distance. A whale. A guy talking on the radio. A dweeb looking through binoculars at nothing in particular.

Then they just splice all the video pieces together and make up story as they watch the result. They add dramatic music any time they show a dweeb looking horrified. That’s it! That’s all it takes to make a TV show these days.


6 posted on 07/26/2012 12:30:45 PM PDT by duckworth (Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
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I do to! I watch for the “FAIL!” moments and the looks on their faces when it happens.

That said, I think Japan does have a problem with their “research” hunts..

Not much research going on there I’d bet.


7 posted on 07/26/2012 12:50:43 PM PDT by cableguymn (For the first time in my life. I fear my country's government.)
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To: Venturer
He and his crew are little more than Pirates, taking the law into their own hands, and attacking ships of sovereign nations on the high seas.

More than Pirates. Now that he has fled, add "Cowards" to the adjectives.

8 posted on 07/26/2012 1:00:27 PM PDT by rapture-me
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He's a pirate and deserves the old Royal Navy treatment...


9 posted on 07/26/2012 1:04:49 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: cableguymn

No, not much “research” being done by the Japanese. Turns out these whaling activities are simply “stimulus” projects. There is not enough demand for whale meat to justify the costs, so the Gov’t is subsidizing them.


10 posted on 07/26/2012 1:10:40 PM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist (Fast & Furious: Proof the Government should not have access to guns)
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You mean some people watch whale wars and don’t cheer for the Jap ships?

As a former Sailor, I find much amusement with their crew.

It’s almost as funny as South Park....almost.


11 posted on 07/26/2012 1:12:31 PM PDT by Sporke (USS Iowa BB-61)
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Ha...me too. They are such screw ups. I like when they steered the boat into the ice field. Then they acted like it was so brave and it was only through their superior seamanship that they were able to escape. What kind of a moron deliberately enters an ice field? Also when they ruined the helicopter blades because of their ineptitude. And at the end of the day, some rich liberals (ie Bob Barker) give millions of dollars to these morons just so they can through stink bombs and perhaps tangle the whalers propeller.


12 posted on 07/26/2012 1:12:31 PM PDT by thepatriot1 (...brought to you courtesy of the Red, White and Blue)
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13 posted on 07/26/2012 1:22:42 PM PDT by thepatriot1 (...brought to you courtesy of the Red, White and Blue)
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I was clicking through the channels and caught the one where they were trying to sneak up on the one whaling ship and the crew stuck ou poles and were flailing them around.

Conched one of the libers on the head and the rest of the people in the rubber boat had the “I can’t believe they just did that” look on their faces.

I’m hoping one of these days the whalers play turnaround and use two ships to drag a cable under the SS.


14 posted on 07/26/2012 1:30:37 PM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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This is hilarious. There is definitely European-wide extradition, and they will put out an Interpol alert for him.

The end result is like escaping from jail while serving 60 days. If they capture you, escape is a felony.


15 posted on 07/26/2012 1:38:52 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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It’s not surprising he wants to save whales. They’re family.

Scuttle that self-righteous tub of guts.


16 posted on 07/26/2012 1:50:24 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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I am pretty sure the Bob Barker has a hull rated for ice..

So running in to the ice did give them an advantage.

If they where smart (and they are not) they would invest in a larger engine and steeper pitch prop so they where faster than the japs..

it’d add some excitement at least..

If they where REALLY smart...

They’d get one of them aero planes with big fuel tanks.. That way instead of motoring around for months on end looking they could cover a lot more ground and find the ships faster and maybe even avoid the harpoon ships..


17 posted on 07/26/2012 2:10:08 PM PDT by cableguymn (For the first time in my life. I fear my country's government.)
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Well there is law that says the Japanese are not to be fishing for whales in their santuary, only the Japanese pays everyone off to not enforce existing law.

If the laws were changed your point about Pirates and that could be valid, but at this point not so.


18 posted on 07/26/2012 2:12:58 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: PeteB570

I’m hoping one of these days the whalers play turnaround and use two ships to drag a cable under the SS.


You missed last weeks show didn’t ya?


19 posted on 07/26/2012 2:14:04 PM PDT by cableguymn (For the first time in my life. I fear my country's government.)
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I hope Watson suffers Jonah’s fate!

I doubt that the great fish could keep Watson in his belly three days before vomiting him up.

20 posted on 07/26/2012 2:15:34 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Free people, when presented only with evil choices, create other choices.(EternalVigilance))
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