Wednesday - December 28, 2005

Whale Wars

Somewhere down around Antarctica, the enviroweenies are fighting the Japanese whalers and also fighting among themselves. What we have here are “Eco-terrorists” on one hand and an angry Japanese government on the other. Meanwhile, Mr. Spock is in the water talking to the whales, trying to convince them to talk to the probe that is destroying the Earth several hundred years in the future. Got all that?

Green Activists Target Japanese Whalers, Bicker Over Tactics
December 28, 2005

(CNSNews.com) - In the frigid waters of the Antarctic, environmental activists are playing a cat-and-mouse game with Japanese whalers while fending off allegations of “ecoterrorism” and fighting among themselves over tactics. The latest round of Japan’s controversial whaling program is being dogged this southern summer by two Greenpeace ships. Campaigners are shadowing Japanese vessels and trying to prevent the killing of whales by placing their inflatable boats between harpooners and their prey.

Also involved in the chase is a ship operated by another group, Sea Shepherd, run by radical Greenpeace founder and a current director of the Sierra Club, Paul Watson. Watson this week claimed that the main Japanese ship tried to ram the Sea Shepherd vessel and said only the release of mooring line from his boat’s stern prompted the Japanese skipper to alter course so as to avoid having his propeller fouled.

Several days earlier, Watson issued a statement accusing his former Greenpeace associates of obstructing Sea Shepherd’s efforts by not telling his group the location of the Japanese fleet, which Greenpeace had managed to locate first. The release touched on longstanding differences over approaches used by the two groups. “You would think that after a decade of expensive campaigns that Greenpeace would have realized that the Japanese fleet does not give a damn about protests,” Watson said.

Posted by Ronald Reagan's Ghost     on 12/28/2005 at 07:15 AM   
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