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Hey, don't get carried away by 'whaling issue'.
What's in question is quality of the media.

Hey, don't get carried away by 'whaling issue'.
What's in question is quality of the media.

Mirror image created by two completely opposing views between the media.
It is quite detrimental for any countries to maintain normal relationship in this condition.
Only debating the issue openly and publicly can narrow the perception gap.

I really love to see open public televised debate between jounarists, scientists, diplomats from Canada, Japan and Australia.
It will good for all countries to share closer image of the issue by eliminating lies.
There is no point in talking to themselves over and over, in order to escape from the reality.

Edited by Viper 0: 27/2/2013 02:31:37 午前

Mirror image created by two completely opposing views between the media.

The Australian Government are Pussies, if I was in power, i'd wage war on whalers, but then I a little nutty and think Submaries should Torpedo Whaling vessels and allow them to sink and create nice little man made reefs for all kinds of see life to grow from.

At least the Japanese Minister for foreign affairs is no longer hiding behind the fact that it is whaling for food and not "scientific research".

Australian Media is horribly left wing unfortunately

THE Sea Shepherd organisation should be chased from the world’s oceans and sunk.

Playing on the emotions of Greens and other soft-minded individuals, founder Paul Watson has created a multinational money-making machine that permits Bob Brown and others to proclaim they are morally superior to the rest of us.

These clowns adopted the skull-and-cross bone symbol of international piracy as an act of bravado and fly the hated flag from their ships (and wear it on their tee-shirts at their cocktail party fund-raisers).

But when a US judge described Watson as a “pirate”, the outlaw said it was just an opinion and one-sided and irrelevant.

Chief Judge Alex Kozinski used the term to criticise Watson and the activist gang in a court of appeal in San Francisco.

The court was overturning an earlier decision which had dismissed claims from Japanese whalers that Sea Shepherd boats had breached an order to stay 500 yards (457 metres) from them.

“You don’t need a peg leg or an eye patch,” Chief Judge Kozinski wrote in the unanimous three-judge panel’s decision.

Watson said the judge had ignored aggression from the Japanese fleet, which has clashed with Sea Shepherd vessels in recent days.

“I guess that puts me in the same boat as Johnny Depp,” Watson told AAP from aboard the Steve Irwin.

“That’s an opinion, it’s certainly not a judgment.

“He didn’t mention anything in there about the fact that the Japanese have destroyed one of our ships (the Ady Gil in 2010), they’ve thrown concussion grenades at us, hit us with water cannons and laser beams.

“It seems to be a very one-sided opinion.”

What a lot of filthy bilge water.

No matter whether you think all whales (or cows, sheep, goats and rabbits) have the right to live without the threat of being eaten or otherwise treated as a resource by humans, the Sea Shepherd group encourages illegal and potentially lethal activity.

Over centuries, seafaring nations have worked cooperatively to establish protocols governing the safe navigation of their vessels on the waters of the world.

The laws are designed to protect humans at sea.

Sea Shepherd breaches these laws. It flouts them arrogantly and its supporters claim immunity because of their higher moral cause – saving whales.

As the chief judge said in his judgment: “When you ram ships; hurl glass containers of acid; drag metal-reinforced ropes in the water to damage propellers and rudders; launch smoke bombs and flares with hooks; and point high-powered lasers at other ships, you are, without a doubt, a pirate, no matter how high-minded you believe your purpose to be.”
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Watson rejected the accusations.

“We haven’t rammed a single Japanese whaling vessel down here in the entire nine years.

“We’ve been rammed multiple times.

“The judge obviously has not seen the evidence or the facts; he’s just making an opinion based on his own personal prejudices.”

But footage released this week by both parties shows Sea Shepherd boats well inside the 500-yard limit.

Watson claimed the restriction applied only to the organisation’s US branch.

He said Sea Shepherd USA had withdrawn from the campaign when the injunction imposing the limit was handed down in December last year, and the action was now being managed by the Australian branch.

Like most cowards who act outside the law, Watson tries to make the laws work for his organisation – when it suits him.

The Australian government must support the US courts and act against Sea Shepherd.

Protecting pirates is a crime.

But all Australia’s maritime resources have been diverted to the north and west to ferry illegal boat arrivals to welfare depots and the pirates are free to threaten lives in the Southern Ocean.

They should be destroyed.

Australian Media is horribly left wing unfortunately

I've never paid any attention to this debate but since it's all of these boards at the moment, could someone tell me what is everyone's problem with the Japanese hunting whale?
Are they hunting endangered species or something?

Apparently not?