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Old 12-21-2007
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Re: Watson threatens to ram Jap whalers.

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Anyone who purposely rams another vessel is a terrorist. What are they going to do next, run cattle trucks off the road?
Happens in Texas, but in that circumstance it's rustlers after the cattle, not to save them.
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Old 12-21-2007
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Re: Watson threatens to ram Jap whalers.

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Well in THAT case it seems practical to attack the Japanese fleet at anchor and so avert getting sunk later.
I don't think Greenpeace is that stupid, or even capable of pulling it off.

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Wait a minute ! Weren't you complaining about Pearl Harbor earlier ? Lol.
You must have me mistaken for someone else.
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Old 12-22-2007
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Re: Watson threatens to ram Jap whalers.

Ah well.



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Re: Watson threatens to ram Jap whalers.

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An Australian court has ordered an end to Japanese whaling in Australia's Antarctic waters.


Al Jazeera English - News - Australia Court Bans Japan Whalers
Yay !! Go Oz.
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Old 01-15-2008
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Re: Watson threatens to ram Jap whalers.

Anti-whaling activists reject 'demands'

January 16, 2008 - 1:43PM


Activists in the Southern Ocean are refusing to abide by a list of demands issued for the return of two crew members detained aboard a Japanese whaling ship.
Australian Benjamin Potts, 28, and Briton Giles Lane, 35, crew members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society vessel Steve Irwin, boarded the Japanese harpoon vessel Yushin Maru No. 2 about 4pm (AEDT) on Tuesday to deliver a written plea to stop killing whales.
Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson said he had received an email from Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) that instructed his vessel to stop its protest activities as a condition of returning his crew.
"They are saying that we have to agree to not take any action against their whaling activities, not to video or photo their whaling activities and want us to send a boat - a small zodiac - 10 miles over the horizon to pick up my crew, which I am not going to do," Watson told AAP.
He said he had been contacted by the Australian Federal Police who had told him Japan had agreed to return the men without any conditions, but he was yet to have this confirmed by Japanese whalers.
The chief of the whaling section of The Fisheries Agency of Japan, Hideki Moronuki, said the men would not be released until the conditions were agreed to.
"Immediately that Paul Watson has accepted the conditions of the safety of the Japanese vessel, they will release the two illegal intruders," he told Fairfax online.
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Re: Watson threatens to ram Jap whalers.

Kidnap, piracy, environmental terrorism. Not very zen, is it.
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Re: Watson threatens to ram Jap whalers.

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Japan's whaling fleet has failed to catch its quota, after being disrupted by clashes with anti-hunting activists.

The fisheries agency said the fleet caught 60% of the minke whales they had planned - 551 from a target of 850.

The ships, which were followed around the Antarctic by activists, are due to return to port in the next few days.

BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Japan fleet misses whaling target
Congratulations to all concerned.

They might consider sabotaging the Jap position before next years appalling killings.
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Old 04-14-2008
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Re: Watson threatens to ram Jap whalers.

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Just a note, the Japanese are still going whaling. They are just not going to take any humpback whales. We may still see a ramming.

If I was Japan, I would send a warship with the fleet. If any vessel attempts a hostile move, such as ramming, send it to the bottom.
Pfft. If I were Australia, I'd send a submarine.
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