JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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OssanAmerica
Whaling or not whaling, sanctuaries, research are all not part of this lawsuit, which, from the extent presently made public will seek a court order restraining SS from acts of violence. It will not even seek to keep them from peacefully protesting against whaling. Contrary to the many unlearned comments above it will not be difficult to get a court order to stop SS's actions, even if for the interim period until the case is heard and finalized, because SS themselves are the biggest source of evidence against them. This may prevent SS from taking any action this season unless they are prepared to break a court restraining order. For those not aware, doing so may expose them to arrest. The Japanese whalers, having asked Australia for protection and having filed this action have covered themselves for the inevitable loss of life that will occur as a result of Sea Shepherd's continued acts of violence.
Posted in: Japan whaling authorities sue Sea Shepherd in U.S.
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OssanAmerica
As an American I can tell you that you do not realize how much we hate all forms of terrorism. This will bury Sea Shepherd. Or at least force them to move an become an "Austalian" organization.
Posted in: Japan whaling authorities sue Sea Shepherd in U.S.
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OssanAmerica
Best news I've heard all day. Any organization with he slightest whiff of eco-terrorism is at a disadvantage in any US Federal Court. The only mistake the Whalers and ICR are making is that they aren't filing a seperate action against Discovery Channel and Animal Planet for damages.
"Watson—who travels to Australia each year to lead activists in their efforts against the whale hunt—said that the ships his organization used were not owned by Sea Shepherd USA, nor were they US-flagged vessels. “The United States government and courts have no authority over these ships so I don’t know what they are hoping to achieve,” he said."
Note how Watson boldy declares his intent to use subterfuge to escape any judgements against him/SS in the US court.. Well he's wrong because ships registered under foreign flags and corporate veils CAN be seized and arrested in foreign ports. Banks do it it all the time.
Posted in: Japan whaling authorities sue Sea Shepherd in U.S.
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OssanAmerica
"I would have a lot easier time buying the cultural and ancestral argument behind whaling if the whalers used spears and canoes to catch their whales, you know, like their culture dictates and like their ancestors did."
Why? No one questions that the Inuits presently comnduct "traditional" whalling, even though they chase whales with high powered rifles from boats with 115 hp outboards and haul off the whale meat on their snowmobiles.
Posted in: Whaling fleet off to Antarctica with beefed up security measures
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OssanAmerica
EqualityDec. 08, 2011 - 10:09AM JST "They are waiting for Japans commercial whaling to resume", [Fisheries Agency official Tatsuya Nakaoku] added.
It''s just you. "Waiting to resume" means it's not happening now but may in the future.
Posted in: Japan using quake disaster budget for whaling aid
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OssanAmerica
Hunting down any animal in the wild in it's own environment is not absue. Immobiizing it and killing it like it''s not a living thing is far closer to abuse. Killing an animal slowly through bleeding is not abuse. In fact it's the most painless method of killing any mammal as it loses conciousness through blood loss. But it's not used in the meat industry because it takes far too much time. Your attempt to characterize whaling practices as being any more "abusive, cruel or painful" than all the other methods currently in use around the world is an example of the many uninformed fallacies employed by the anti-whaling fanatics.
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OssanAmerica
"Spidapig24Dec. 07, 2011 - 06:52PM JST Its amusing after all this time posters like arrestpaul, davidatokyo to name a few have been saying that its not Australia's water, and not Australia's issue here are the whalers and Japanese government asking Australia to support them in doing something Australia doesnt want them doing and is taking them to court over. Ah Japan the laughing stock of the world AGAIN."
Japan is NOT asking Australia to support them. Australia is under no obligation to do anything in those waters, which ARE NOT Australian waters.They only have the search and rescue responsibility in the event of accidents. Japan is asking Auistralia t help prevent the need for such search and rescue as a result of Sea Shepherds declared intent. That Australia has refused, while within it's rights, will probably prejudice their position in the ICJ trial. But that's their choice. Wait till that case reaches a verdict, Australia will be the laughing stock of the world having gone against the advice of both the United States and New Zealand.
Posted in: Australia refuses to protect Japanese whalers
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OssanAmerica
If one is going to make bold statements, such as claiming the Japanese research whaling to be a sham, or assuming that the consumption of the whales is somehow evidence that the research is a sham, then one should go to the IWC site to read what it says. What is written there clearly exposes these views as fallacies. What possible information about Research Whaling, which is sanctioned by the IWC and conducted under IWC rules, is the Sea Shepherd or Greenpeace site going to offer that has any degree of credibilkity greater than the IWC site itself?
No that's incorrect. If you think animals such as cows aren't aware that they are being killed or going to be killed you are greatly mistaken. Have you ewer seen the eyes of a cow when the "bolt" fails the first time? And unlike whales in the sea, tjhey are bound so they cannot move? Your comment is another example of a fallacy propagated by the anti-whaing crowd, a stretch to justify their position.
When you got caught unable to substantiate a statement you made, you told me to "go look it up". Now you accuse me of "trolling", a well known indicator of having no argument to present at all. Perhaps now you can appreciate why I find this so entertaining.
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OssanAmerica
"China, which publicly announced around 50 separate naval exercises in the seas off its coast over the past two years—usually after the event—says its military is only focused on defending the country’s territory"
This is true. But the fact that China seems to consider all of Asia as it's territory is what's worrying it's neighbors.
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OssanAmerica
Encouraging people to actually go to the IWC website and read with their own eyes what Article 8 states, what it allows and what it requires participating nations to do is EXACTLY what I am doing. Why? Because far too many people are relying on heresay, outright lies and fallacies, the biased media, racist attitiudes, nationalism in believing that international waters can be owned, complete disregard for law and order in supporting eco-terrorist organizations, and the myths that all whale species are endangered, somehow "special" animals, and suffer any more or less than animals in a slaughterhouse. Yes the ICJ outcome will come soon enough and those anti-whalers who prescribed to these fallacies are going to be greatly dissappointed. But I will admit that the "wacked out" thinking process evident in their arguments is what makes participating in these whaling threads very entertaining.
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OssanAmerica
I disagree. I think that a large portion of anti-whalers are simply uneducated or in denial of reality. Anyone can go to the IWC website and read that scientific research whaling, as authorized by the IWC under Article 8, is EXEMPT from recognizing Moratoriums and Sanctuaries. It is also well known that the waters in question do NOT belong to Australia, New Zealand or anyone else. In the same way that the same IWC rules REQUIRE that the whales taken for research be comsumed is deliberately not mentioned at all in the above article in order to cast Japan in a bad light when in reality hey are abiding my the IWC rules, reality and facts are convenitently ignored for the most part by the frothing-at-the-mouth anti-whaling crowd. I won't even get into how that "sancutary" was created in violation of the IWC's own rules either.
Posted in: Whaling fleet off to Antarctica with beefed up security measures
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OssanAmerica
I see you are unable to back up your statement and resort to the all too common "go look it up" response so often heard from those who are caught utterly in the wrong but unwilling to accept it. As others have pointed out, you can see for yourself on the IWC webpage that your statement is nonsense.
Posted in: Whaling fleet off to Antarctica with beefed up security measures
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OssanAmerica
swisstoni- what makes you certain that the Japanese are not conducting research whaling? Part from all the anti-whalers simply saying so? Has any research data submitted by Japan to the IWC scientific comittee ever been rejected as not being autrhentic data? Has Japan ever been cited by the same committee for not being in compliance with the IWC Scientific permit program?
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OssanAmerica
smithinjapan -"I'm not sure that aiming sonic weapons at helicopters IN FLIGHT, ramming into near stationary ships and sinking them, or bringing the coast guard to 'protect' the whaling program is peaceful, but I get what you mean."
Perhaps he concept of "self defense" is alien to you? One party is engaging in whaling in international waters , research or otherwise. The other party has openly declared their intent to harass and interfere with their legal (yes legal, that's what "loophole" means") operations. Everything that the whaling fleet has done is to defend themselves from these eco-terrorists. I know this arguments fits into your anti-J agenda but I hope you realize that SKoreans also eat whale and that country is eager to be allowed to resume whaling. Are you sure you're on'the right side of he fence here?
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OssanAmerica
"@smith -What's odd is that Japan thinks its coast extends to the Antarctic Ocean. Odd, or just plain moronic -- take your pick."
Another uneducated comment. JCG like other nation's coast guards are law enforcement. They are not military. Nor are they limited to the "coast" of the nation as their jurisdiction applies onboard all vessels flying the Japanese flag. Recent events suggests that the same jurisdiction may extend to vessels under charter (contractual enployment to you) to Japanese entities. JCG offers have been present onboard JMSDF vessels operating in the coaltion anti-piracy operations off Somalia over the last few years for the purpose of law enforcement and arrest authority.
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OssanAmerica
spidapig, neither Australia does not own or have any jurisdiction over the waters where the Japanese reasearch whaling fleet are operating. Everybody knows this. If they did it would be an easy matter to charge them with poaching and get them to leave. Why don't you stop constantly posting like Australia owns these waters? Let the ICJ settle this. Staying on topic, if the Sea Shepherd eco-terrorists carry out more ridicuklous acts of viloence hope the additional security measures results in their arrest and prosecution, just like any eco-terrorist groups anywhere.
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OssanAmerica
"sfjp330Dec. 06, 2011 - 05:04AM JST You don't know the reason why U.S. pilots were there?"
Why they US pilots were there is not relevant to the question of whether the United States and Japan were already engaging in hostilities before the Pearl Harbor attack. Your tirade concerning alleged Japanese atrocities is also irrelevant to this topic.
Posted in: Did FDR conceal Pearl Harbor intelligence about Japanese attack?
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OssanAmerica
"In the end it was the deceitful nature of the Japanese that won the opening battle."
Not even the average American high school kid believes this lowbrow propaganda anymore. How deceitful is something when both the US and Japan were training their militaries as each other as the desginated "enemy", US pilots were covertly shooting down Japanese planes over China and we took a policy of cornering them into attacking us through ultimatums and embargoes well over a year before the attack? And the flood of information tht has arisen about intelligence info indicating a Pearl Harbor attack from Soviet spy Sorge to Britain's MI6 casts substantial doubt on the "surprise" argument. Whether the reason for failure to take action to prevent he Japanese victory was deliberate or outright incompetence, as in 911, we will probably never know. But what is clear is that only a traumatized war veteran or a person utterly unaware of global events in the years leading up to 1941 would by the "sneak attack" argument that was used to whip the Amerucab public into a war mentality.
Posted in: Did FDR conceal Pearl Harbor intelligence about Japanese attack?
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OssanAmerica
"How long does Alabama (or other US states) let people drive with international licenses? I was under the impression that it was indefinite, which is why people were so upset when Japan unilaterally decided to restrict international licenses to one year."
Don't know where you get your information but International Drovers lIcenses issued in the United States by the AAA have been valid for one year for as long as I can remember. Additionally, Internatinal Drivers lIcenses must always be accompamied by the actual Drivers License of your home country, not your passport, to be valid. This is stated on all International drivers licenses on the last page in the language of the country where issued.
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OssanAmerica
"So you all here at JT not concerned about abused Asian women??"
No. Only if Japan did it 70 years ago.
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