Posted on 06/10/2015 4:00:36 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society agreed to pay $2.55 million to Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research on Monday as part of a settlement to resolve a long-standing legal battle over the anti-whaling group’s tactics against Japanese whaling ships in the Antarctic.
The settlement came the same day the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Sea Shepherd’s appeal of a federal court’s finding that the group was in contempt of a court order to stay clear of Japanese whaling ships.
The activist group’s tactics at sea include throwing smoke bombs at Japanese whaling ships and using metal-reinforced ropes to damage propellers and rudders. The question is whether those tactics—which typically take place in international waters—amount to piracy, and whether a U.S. court can order those activities to be stopped if they take place outside its jurisdiction.
Sea Shepherd believes it can’t, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Court upheld that it can. Now, thanks to the settlement, Sea Shepherd will be giving millions of dollars to an organization it has tirelessly battled against in a fight to save the whales.
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The Japanese are pushing some of the same kind of arrogance they did before they kicked off their part of WW II: in open defiance of a worldwide ban on killing whales, they go ahead and spend millions (including Tsunami relief funds) to outfit an upgrade their whaling fleet and they set targets of over 1,000 whales to be killed for "research". They're liars but who cares right?
They also slaughter hundreds of porpoises every year in defiance of even more laws and conventions - but who cares again?
Ever watch a Japanese war movie lately? The Japanese seem to be pushing the propaganda that we caused the Pacific War and they were the courageous victims. Apparently it is a Japanese custom to lie about everything and just do what they feel like doing anyway.
The Sea Shepherds are hairy, dimwitted hippies for sure but at least they have the guts to do something about these crimes.
World War II won’t really be over until the Japanese face up to their responsibilities for the atrocities committed during that war and change their culture away from lying and cheating.
the Japs shoud come over here and kill a couple of thousand grey whales!!!
BTW Japanese whaling level has remained steady for years even with Capt. Crunch’s effort where he spent millions and endangered countless young lives.
The fact that the Japanese go on killing thousands of whales despite the efforts of the "hippies" just indicates how the Japanese haven't changed a bit from their primitive and brutal habits. The fact that the "hippies" have been largely ineffective is because they are using nonviolent means. A torpedo or a limpet mine would be far more effective.
Congratulations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXQq78lvKrU
I suppose that is a slanted piece of Japanese propaganda also? Or is it just Capt. Crunch can't drive a boat?? The truth is that it was a deliberate ramming of a sovereign vessel underway at sea. The hippies are very lucky the Japanese Navy hasn't sunk their smell a$$es.
The Sea Shepherd was as likely to be badly damaged or sunk in that incident.
You seem way too gullible - and I can't fathom why you're siding with the arrogant, law-breaking Japanese.
Clue. WW2 ended 60 plus years ago. Get over it.
Past is prologue.
Hopefully they do the planet a favor and fully revert for the purpose of killing every ecoterrorist that comes near their boats. Once done they can change back.
I’ve had the ALF follow me through the desert and post ‘Wanted posters of me across the old Usenet and in real life. I KNOW what human garbage they are first hand. And their supporters are just as bad.
The WW2 Japanese are dead. The current Japanese owe you or us nothing. The current Japanese didn’t fight WW2.
If you were watching the show that aired after the ramming there is discussion between Capt. Crunch and Wispy Beard that they INTEND to ram the Japanese ship. Piracy pure and simple. Terrorism under today’s definition and just plain STUPID on the high seas. And yes the hippie boat breached the hull above the water line but was still taking on water - putting all on board in unnecessary damage. “nonviolent” not by a long shot. Also the hippies try and foul the propellers of the Japanese ship(s) - again and act of piracy and sheer stupidity in the open sea.
"piracy", a term you like to bandy about is not ramming a ship: it's poor ship handling at best and endangerment to both sides at worst. "piracy" is seizing a vessel and the goods they are carrying. Theft on the high seas; i.e. Somalia.
Interfering with the Japanese violations of law and decency should be enforced by every civilized nation but it has fallen only to the Sea Shepherds because of the Japanese' effective briberies and misuse of the courts.
As far as WW II goes, yes, it's over and we had to expend several hundred thousand young men in the process. We should not forget what the Japanese and the Japanese culture when not contained is capable of: remember the 97 civilian contractors bound with barbed wire and machinegunned at Wake island when they finished using them as slave labor. Remember the 13 Marines taken to Kwajalein and beheaded after they were captured at Makin Atoll. Remember all of the captured aviators murdered at Rabaul and Truk and all the other places they got them.
We could go on - but the war is over and they have completely changed - right?
Right.
No, they haven’t. The only people we can trust is us - and as long as Obama and people like him are in power, we can’t even trust us.
I trust Putin more than ‘us’. “US” funds Obamacare. “US” backs Obama fully. “Us” is largely retarded.
Japan is far more trustworthy than “US” for at least 10 years now.
Piracy is typically an act of robbery or criminal violence at sea. The term can include acts committed on land, in the air, or in other major bodies of water or on a shore. It does not normally include crimes committed against people traveling on the same vessel as the perpetrator (e.g. one passenger stealing from others on the same vessel). The term has been used throughout history to refer to raids across land borders by non-state agents
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy
Nonetheless, you decided to adopt and push the Japanese government’s misapplication of the term.
You should know better than trust Putin at all. Japan and the Japanese are dandy - as long as they stop lying, cheating and poaching sentient creatures - or murdering prisoners of war.
I know enough not to trust terrorist supporters like the ones making excuses on right wing websites in favor of Watson and co.
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