Originally Posted by
JamesH
The AG was the main instigator becasue it was there in the first place. The boat was bought for and went out with the express and admitted purpose to harrass at extremely close quarters the Japanese whaling fleet.
They got what was coming to them and they're probably not sincerely upset. So that's the end of that matter.
I don't like whaling one little bit, I don't even like Japan as a rule :eek:. My personal view is that whaling should be banned. But I am not a traditionalist Japanese person so I would say that. We've managed to stamp out the wholesale slaughter so let's be pleased about that.
Let's see this Sea Shepherd movement for what it is, middle class white westerners throwing their power and wealth around and making the little foreigners tow the line. We don't want you to eat whales, so stop. They probably would have by now if we hadn't tried to make them.
I believe that inspite of my repugnance for their actions, the Japanese whalers are doing me a favour because the minute those Sea Shepherd people stop whaling, they start on live exports and they start doing material damage to my way of life, it's no longer some bogey old Japanese whale eater they're coming for, it's me. And then after they crush the livestock industry they are going to stop me from eating meat altogether....and so it goes, that's who they are and that's what they do.
So the fact that I agree with them this time is totally irrelevant, I saw the whaler run them down and I cheered.