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hobbsy70
OssanAmerica, I am glad you bought up the point;"Iceland makes up in their exports to Japan."
I should bring it to your attention that CITIES bans this very same act;
"Furthermore, under Japan’s Decree of Import Trade Control, all imports from non-IWC member nations are prohibited."
Yet another treaty & agreement that Japan seems quite happy to break! Just as it is happy to lie to the world about its whalers getting injured by SSCS actions, when in reality it was their own actions which bought about any injuries! Just as the fishing Minister is enraged by these actions, so to is the world with Japan continued whaling in a designated whale sanctuary, & the use of blatent lies, & corruption of a world organisation to do so. Racism has nothing to do with it...
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hobbsy70
Animal Planet has approach the J-whalers & offered to put a team of independant photographers/filmers on the J-boats. Yet the ICR refused! I guess if you know you are going to act ILLEGALLY, & deliberately ram other vessels & use other such dirty tactics they do not want an independant arbitrator around to film you doing these things wrong...
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hobbsy70
One active poster here made the assumption, & stated publicly; I was on drugs! Which I am not. He also has NO maritime experience, but wishes to claim an abundent knowledge of everything. yet his posts are based on his going out & killing of small animals with his BIG gun! I can also watch a video & see who is shooting pepper spray at themselves without any denial of the facts...
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hobbsy70
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA...
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hobbsy70
Sorry HedaMadness I forgot to include you in afore mentioned list, but I am also anxiously awaiting your reply to this article...
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hobbsy70
"Glenn Inwood, spokesman for Japan’s Institute of Cetacean Research, said the injuries were not serious, but he cautioned that butyric acid can cause temporary blindness."
Hey Glenn, it is not rotten butter causing the temporary blindness, it is your own tear gas or pepper spray!!! But you already knew this, guess is time for the Japanese public to find out...
"Japan’s Fisheries Minister Hirotaka Akamatsu lashed out at the activists on Friday, telling reporters: “I am full of rage. I could not believe they did such a thing.”
Hey Minister stop disseminating blatent lies, the Japanese people may believe them for now, but the truth ALWAYS come out, & when it does it will be your head on the chopping block, or should I say you at the wrong end of an exploding harpoon!!!
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hobbsy70
& the final nail in the coffin as reported in this story;
"Whale meat not used for study is sold for consumption in Japan"
What happened to the argument of "scientific research", ohhh that is right it is just another lie put out by Japan, to justify these senseless hunts that even the IWC has called on Japan to end...
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hobbsy70
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA, thanks guys for saying it all for me, Japan uses hunting whales as propaganda within Japan, yet the world condems it. Time for Japan to pull out of Antarctica, or Moleier, OssanAmerica, or Bushlover to post; how this was once again the fault of SSCS, & how SSCS was actually attacking the whalers! Maybe the J-gov/Fishing Minister, could publicly apolagise for their lies, but then again I guess that would be like admitting they deliberately rammed & sank another vessel, endangering the lives of the crew onboard, & we all know the Japanese will never do that unless they can try to claim somebody 'attacked' them!
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hobbsy70
Complaining about using water cannons! Yet the SM2 was quite happy to use hers to try & destroy the SSCS helicopter with crew aboard, & to use them on the crew of the AG at close quarters after ramming them. Sounds like double standards if you ask me, especially considering the J-whalers were happy about destroying another vessel & endanger its crew. Now just because the SI now has a more powerful water cannon than the J-whalers they want to complain!!! BOOO HOOO whalers, go Sea Shepherd...
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hobbsy70
OssanAmerica, once again please get some nautical experience/knowledge, "standing to", means you are not a threat, it means you are navigating at a safe distance to avoid a collision, the BB was 'standing to', by the admissions of the ICR the whaling vessels then engaged the BB. In simple terms this means the J-whaling vessels came within close proximity to the BB, while she held her course,'standing to'. Ergo though the very term "engaged" it was the J-vessels that approached the BB. The BB was not in any position to 'howser' the NM being some 800m or more to her stern, nor was she in any position to ram the NM, therefore she was no threat, she was 'standing to'.If the J-whalers do not like this that is their bad luck, she was not acting illegaly, nor putting anyone at risk. The actions of the J-whaling fleet though was something quiet the opposite, circling, coming within close proximity, then when the intimidation did not work ramming the BB. This is ILLEGAL by all maritime laws, just as shooting another hunter because you disagree to their actions, law of the ocean & also on land. So your comment;"#
on the other hand, that someone is trying to harm me, then YES I have the right to shoot him" #
does not compare or stand up here as the BB was not engaged in any illegal activity, as nor was the AG. Your own words state if ;"I see someone doing something that I do not agree with, even if I know it is illegal, I do NOT have the right to shoot him". So please be consistent in your arguments.
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hobbsy70
OssanAmerica;"According to your article The crimes cimmitted by GP don't endanger the lives of people or involve acts of viloence. This is why GP won't have anything to do with your criminal heroes SS. And any person with any brains or morals, regardless of belief, wouldn't either."
You are right if you are talking about actions such as deliberately ramming vessels in the Southern Ocean as J-whalers have been documented doing since 1999. But the article is about the human rights abuses by the Japanese Government in dealing with these people. Whether they have committed a crime or not, they are entitled to human rights. Much the same as the crew on the SSCS vessels in Antarctica are entitled to human rights as set out by the UN, Japanese whalers do NOT have the right to renigg these rights, no matter of their opposing views. Therefore J-whalers do NOT have the right to deliberately ram a civilian vessel, & in doing so put the lives of all the crew members onboard at risk...
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hobbsy70
OssanAmerica, yes there are more countries in the Southern Hemisphere other than Aus & NZ, Indonesia has previously rejected the Japanese request to port there, Malaysia, Phillipines, South Africa, Chile, Peru, Brazil, please refer to Indonesia. Long limp home for YM3...
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hobbsy70
OssanAmerica, I am glad you are happy to admit you believe you have the right to shoot another because you do not like their actions, let's see that argument stand up in any court...
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hobbsy70
OssanAmerica;the SSCS vessel BB was 'standing to', at a safe distance, that is not putting another vessel at risk, nor was it attempting to entangle props, that is why it is called "standing to", simily the AG was also dead in the water, 'standing to', & with right of way may I add, not harassing another vessel, yet both vessels were rammed. Once again if you want to comment on the rules of the sea, get some experience, do your masters tickets, then somebody may actually take your comments with some credability, as for now you are a hunter commenting on the rules of the sea! Of which you obviously have no understanding of...
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hobbsy70
OssanAmerica, let me refresh your memory, as it seems short, this from just a few comments ago;"They were harassing the whalers thruogh obtruction, lasers and attempting to entagle their props. When the SS ships are there for that declared purpose, rules of navigation hardly apply."
Sorry did you not just state in the above comment,"rules of navigation hardly apply." But you just stated before if hunting the rules of hunting always apply & you have no right to shoot another person, even if they act irresponsibly & do not abide by laws?!? Well the same applies at sea, even if you do not agree with anothers actions this does NOT give you the right to act outside the law, as the J-whalers are/have been documented doing since 1999, if not before. If another hunter/person/group, was acting this way for over 10 years, but hiding behind a government organisation do you not think eventually these actions will catch up with them?
Now the YM3 is limping home damaged through its own actions, unable to pull into any port in the Southern Hemisphere, because all countries have barred them! If they were acting within the law why would all these neighboring countries bar these vessels from entering their waters?
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hobbsy70
Cleo,"If they're in a bad way, I hope they're limping out of the Antarctic before they start sinking and/or spilling fuel"
& they will have to limp all the way back to Japan, because there is not a single country in the Southern Hemisphere that will let them pull into port for repairs! Popular bunch these Japanese whalers...
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hobbsy70
OssanAmerica;"
Of course not. But that's exactly what Sea Sheperd are doing."
Was it not you who stated the AG spent hours harrassing the NM, so therefore the SM2 was completely within its rights to break all maritime laws, approach & overtake from the port quarter of a vessel without proper communication of its intent, then turn hard to starboard onto, & cause a collision which endangered her crew, & sank said vessel? Threatening the lives of all crew onboard in completing the afore mentioned manouver...
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hobbsy70
OssnAmerica please explain how you entangle a prop of a vessel that is at least 800m in front of you? Once again showing your complete lack of knowledge of the sea, & how you make stoopid assumptions by looking at propaganda put out by the ICR without looking at the obvious evidence...
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hobbsy70
OssanAmerica, I am sorry but that is exactly what the J-whalers are doing, & have been documented doing since 1999, long before SSCS entered Antarctic waters. & you have previously stated the whalers are just in their actions of breaking every maritime law to ram another vessel it does not agree with! So which is it my friend?
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hobbsy70
So OssanAmerica, you being an experienced hunter as you have previously stated, when you are hunting if you see someone behaving irresponsibly does that give you the right to shoot them, because you did not like/agree, or think their actions responsible? It is much the same in the oceans, no matter if someone upsets you as a Master of a vessel that does not give you the right to deliberately ram them, sink them, & with intent to injure/kill the crew. As you have stated there are organsations responsible for this, it is not up to the crew of the J-whalers to take these matters into their own hands. If they do not like the actions of the SSCS then they need to have them dealt with in a maritime court, NOT take matters into their own hands & deliberately ram & sink them themselves. The J-whalers also need to abide by said laws, otherwise how are they any better than what they are saying they are opposed to? But then again J-whalers have been documented doing these very same things since 1999, long before SSCS entered the Antarctic waters, so what was their excuse for it back then? The Captain of the AG has presented himself to an investigation into the collision of the SM2 & the AG, when is the Captain of the SM2 going to present himself to same said investigation?
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