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Gotta love Sea Shepherd.

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about 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Gotta love Sea Shepherd.
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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about 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/japanese-whaling009.html

"We have chased the whalers for over 800 miles since last Saturday through bad weather and heavy ice conditions," said Captain Paul Watson. "They have fled eastward, but we are on their tail and we will keep on their tail."





dairyflat2009-01-06 18:03:45
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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about 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Last year I saw a news item on the TV news showing Green Peace anti-whaling protesters in the Southern Ocean throwing & smashing what look like glass bottles of some sort of substance against the side of a whaling ship from a inflatible dinghy.  How f**king dump is that?  Littering the ocean the with broken glass!!  If they want to endanger their own lives that's fine but don't come bleating if they get hurt performing stupid stunts.
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I see that the Inuits in Canada, Norway & Iceland are whaling as well.  Why aren't they hounded by Greenpeace & the Sea Shepherd?  I think there's an element of discrimination here.
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Wongo wrote:
I see that the Inuit in Canada, Norway & Iceland are whaling as well.  Why aren't they hounded by Greenpeace & the Sea Shepherd?  I think there's an element of discrimination here.


Fixed. Inuit is plural, Inuk is singular. Also, other indigenous people have that right as well - I remember that the Haida of British Columbia are allowed to hunt orcas.

/the more you know


Indigenous peoples often have treaty rights to hunt whales and other off-limit animals, but under the agreement of hunting at sustainable levels.  This, along with any harvesting of any resource by any people at a sustainable level, is fine by me. Even whales.
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As long as the animal/fish/plant (or whatever) is being hunted sustainably and in the case of living creatures, being killed humanely, then I don't have a problem with it being hunted either.

Although then people start bringing up that in Whales (and other Cataceans) there is a high mercury level and it is dangerous to consume them because of that.  Having said that you could die from to much fast food.

But what is Greenpeaces obsession with whales?  Seriously, there are many other cooler animals out there that need protection.
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about 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
robbwatson wrote:
Wongo wrote:
I see that the Inuit in Canada, Norway & Iceland are whaling as well.  Why aren't they hounded by Greenpeace & the Sea Shepherd?  I think there's an element of discrimination here.


Fixed. Inuit is plural, Inuk is singular. Also, other indigenous people have that right as well - I remember that the Haida of British Columbia are allowed to hunt orcas.

/the more you know


Indigenous peoples often have treaty rights to hunt whales and other off-limit animals, but under the agreement of hunting at sustainable levels.  This, along with any harvesting of any resource of any animals at a sustainable level, is fine by me. Even people.
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about 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Killing people would be a much more sustainable way of getting meat
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about 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Cosimo wrote:

Killing people would be a much more sustainable way of getting meat


And it'd help with the overpopulation issue as well. Getting two birds stoned at once
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about 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I hope the greenpeace boat sinks.

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about 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

wow controversial
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about 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I hate all the "save the whale" hippy sh*t - they are big, gormless animals which people like to eat and experiment on.  Good on them, I say.
 
It is the same with Pandas - if they cannot be bothered to get stiffies and f**k each other, why should we bother trying to help them? 
 
Let them die out, while we spent all the money we are wasting on them and whales trying to cure Aids, cancer and in-growing toe nails.
Frankie Mac2009-01-11 01:05:03

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Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
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about 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

yeah! go humans! humans rule! how bout if some of the trillions spent on military funding were to be used to cure aids and cancer...that would be nice.

because to money spent on trying to save pandas and whales is like, 0.1% of that
Cosimo2009-01-11 11:15:55
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we should force the Norwegians to come to the south like they did 1000 years before the Maori so we can chase them in a boat.

it would make a goodd photo at least




martinb2009-01-11 18:43:46


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Cosimo wrote:

yeah! go humans! humans rule! how bout if some of the trillions spent on military funding were to be used to cure aids and cancer...that would be nice.

because to money spent on trying to save pandas and whales is like, 0.1% of that
 
if there us a thread on how great it is a boat is going off to war, I will say that I hope that they sink as well.  Will that make you happy?

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about 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

um i don't really hope any boat sinks...drowning would be horrible
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If Sea Shepherd sank, I would not want the people on board to drown.

I would like either the Japanese whaling boat to turn around and harpoon the crew, or a whale to eat them all (insert your own gag about swallowing seamen)

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about 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
If they get swallowed by a whale AFTER being harpooned, it'd be a decent way to get rid of the evidence.
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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
 
When will this silly "terrorism" rhetoric end? I thought that once Bush left office he would take the with-us-or-with-the-terrorists mentality with him. Maybe that was naive. Apparently the Japanese government has taken yet another step towards labeling the conservationist Paul Watson a terrorist.

Watson is the founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and captain of the anti-whaling vessel, the Steve Irwin. During a recent trip between Canada and the United States, Watson discovered that he is now officially on some kind of Japanese suspected-terrorist watch-list. While going through the regular paperwork of international air travel, he was told that there was some issue with his documents and was pulled aside by a member of the American homeland security office. There he was held long enough to miss his original flight, but Watson was lucky enough to catch the next flight out.

 

http://www.care2.com/causes/civil-rights/blog/japan-labels-paul-watson-a-terrorst-for-saving-whales/

Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Would Watson & his crew go as far as killing the whaling crew?
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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Frankie Mac wrote:

If Sea Shepherd sank, I would not want the people on board to drown.

I would like either the Japanese whaling boat to turn around and harpoon the crew, or a whale to eat them all (insert your own gag about swallowing seamen)





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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
If Watson & crew end up in the water it's there own fault.  I don't sympathize with people who act irresponsibly.  Actually, they would be breaching basic health & safety rules.
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