Posted by agent858 on March 13, 2006, at 0:10:08 [reposted on March 13, 2006, at 7:40:31 | original URL]
In reply to Re: policy » agent858, posted by Damos on March 12, 2006, at 23:15:52
> He's the guy who was a founder of Greenpeace but now is a 'lone wolf' activist. He's the one ramming the whaling ship and generally making their life unpleasant. Actually stopping them killing whales. Not just cr*pping on about it.
ah yeah i know who you mean - i just thought i'd check. yeah... his boat rammed their boat... steel spike... etc etc. greenpeace are trying to distance themselves from him... he is a little too radical for them... trying to get people on side and he is too radical for most i dare say...
funny though. there was an interview and i think he said that they were 'murderers' which of course prompted something of an outcry... hunting animals not people... but then one greenpeace guy managed to position himself a little too close to the harpoon... and now they are saying that the Japanese have shown willingness to continue even though they are putting lives in danger... they are willing to put lives in danger...
i can understand them getting a little pissed...
but imo they shouldn't be whaling in a whale sanctuary somewhere they have no claim to the waters when comercial whaling is illegal and the scientific claim has been undermined by scientific experts...
apparantly the whale sanctury thing...
and the illegality of commercial whaling...is about to be overturned. countries in teh south pacific get to vote on the policy (decide what numbers are required for a pop. to be hunted vs protected etc etc)... and the japanese have offered them some fairly nice donations and trade deals and in response they have decided to cast the votes their way and so it looks like that the next meeting will have the whale sanctury gone and commercial hunting allowed at any rate :-(
> Especially about the fact that there is NO commercial market for it in Japan. It's all about national pride. I was so very angry.
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Are you sure about that? Really? I thought there was indeed a commercial market. And whale oil etc was used for traditional medicines etc...> > Wanna go protest outside govt house?????
> Not that sounds like fun ;-):-)
Apparantly you can go sit in on sessions and make a pain of yourself at question time :-)
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