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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I love your tagline.

Perhaps the Dignity’s captain is auditioning for a show on reality tv. Paul Watson has made a career of harassing ships doing things of which he disapproves. Now he is on a tv show called “Whale Wars”.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-12/29/content_10573713.htm

New Zealand FM cautions whalers and protesters in Antarctic

WELLINGTON, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) — New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully on Monday reminded whalers and protesters in Antarctic waters they need to take responsibility for their own safety.

The anti-whaling group, Sea Shepherd, and the crew on a Japanese whaling ship are blaming each other for a collision on Friday night, off the coast of the Australian Antarctic territory.

McCully said it’s not easy to get help to such an inhospitable area if someone is hurt, Radio New Zealand reported on Monday.

He said people have to take responsibility for their safety, plus the safety of others, in the region.

McCully warned whalers and protesters last month it would be difficult to mount a quick rescue if anyone got lost or hurt.

Japanese whalers have fled into New Zealand waters after their boat was pelted with rotten butter and slime by anti-whaling group the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

The whalers said the activists rammed their boat, Kaiko Maru, and have branded the group terrorist vigilantes, but captain of the Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin said the two ships simply brushed together as his crew were pelting the Kaiko Maru with 25 bottles of butyric acid, found in rotten butter.


63 posted on 12/30/2008 6:49:15 AM PST by maica (Barack Obama is a Weathermen Project.)
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To: maica

Kudos to the restraint shown by the Japanese.

Hubby commercial fishes, and none of the fishermen we know would take what the hippies have dished out without at least ramming them.


73 posted on 12/30/2008 6:58:52 AM PST by gardengirl
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To: maica

Interesting.... so this Paul Watson scumbag, who’s too far-out for Greenpeace, makes a career out of ramming other people’s boats.

These bozos should have been sunk by the Israeli navy — much too kind to let them slink away.


137 posted on 12/30/2008 11:17:42 AM PST by Enchante (Bernie Madoff Learned His Ponzi-Investment Strategy from our Social Security System!!)
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To: maica

Butterbombs?


140 posted on 12/30/2008 11:29:47 AM PST by luvie (Now....on to 2012........Palin/Jindal)
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