The Shipping Times is reporting that Sea Shepard's Steve Irwin is being shadowed by the Japanese Coast Guard.
Here's an excerpt:
"According to media reports, the Japanese Coast Guard has admitted that there is an armed Japanese Coast Guard team in the Southern Oceans.
"Coast guards are there with a view to protect human lives and assets as they have suffered damage at the hands of activists," Japan Coast Guard spokesman Takashi Matsumori said on Tuesday, January 29th."
The complete Shipping Times post is here.
via gCaptain's Discover News Service
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Japanese CG pursues Sea Shepard Vessel
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I find it interesting that the Sea Shepherd people are complaining about the Japanese violating the Antarctic Treaty and other maritime laws, when the only reason the Japanese coast guard is there at all is BECAUSE of the harassment and damage the Sea Shepherd people have caused to the Japanese ships. (Interesting how they don't mention that all of their actions of harassment and sabotage aren't legal, either). That's like looting and setting fire to a building then complaining about the police or National Guard arriving to stop it.
A country has the right to ensure the protection of its people and its ships if endangered. If one has a moral dilemma with the fishing/whaling practices of another nation, there are more civil methods one can take without making an ass of oneself.
What the Japanese themselves are doing is both immoral and illegal. They have no moral high ground in the whaling debate whatsoever, especially as their slaughter of the whales is based purely on a lie - they do NOT need to kill whales based on a spurious and scientifically-bankrupt claim of "research".
While I do not condone damage to ships, the Japanese deserve everything they get.
By the way, the Sea Shepherd vessel is called Steve Irwin, not Erwin.
Vectis,
Whaling by the Japanese is an abomination. Acts of piracy by Sea Shepard is an abomination.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
Captain Rogers, A pity that your commander in chief did not adopt the same view with regards to invading Iraq! Sea Shepherd may be skirting along the edge of legality in her actions but at least she is actually doing something - and it is effective!
What I ould like to know is why is the Jap so called "Coast Guard, first off no where near the japanese coast, and more importantly running around in a converted fishing twaler? Are the japanese so poor that they cannot afford Coast Guard Cutters with propper markings on it or uniforms for its "Coast Guard Personel" or is this just another lie by the japs like the one they think we beleive with the "research" painted on the side of a "Whaling ship" and its Whaling Fleet! Since when does a Research vesel run with a Fleet? Also where is the data the japs are supposedly collecting? If they indeed had any research data of any real use instead of just a sham they should make it avalible with reasons for collecting it thereby discrediting the Sea Shepherds claims. It is obvious this so called Jap CG vessel is just another part of the whaling fleet and it is driven by Jap GREED.
I also find the crew aboar the Steve Irwin to be complete idiots! The fat capitan is good at calling other cowards yet he is the biggest loser coward of them all. The rest of the crew just has no buisness on a boat, they need to go back to their day jobs and take up their cause in the COURTS! For what they waste in fuel and supplies they could put up a good case and actually STOP THE WHALING instead of just pissing and whining about it! Get a life Sea Shepherds your comic "jolly Rodgers" flag declares you as Pirates wheather I agree or not, grow up and quit playing Pirate Jean Lafyatte before someone gets hurt or killed and the whales keep DYING.
i say BAN everything Japanese until these liars quit breaking the law!
"While Australia has declared Japan's hunt in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary to be illegal, federal court judge Jim Allsop has stated "there is no practical mechanism by which orders of this court can be enforced".[77] The lack of official enforcement mechanisms in that law prompted the Society to adopt, without official sanction, what it sees as a law enforcement mission. "Sea Shepherd, guided by the United Nations World Charter for Nature, is the only organization whose mission is to enforce these international conservation regulations on the high seas".[78] "The Japanese whaling fleet is targeting 935 threatened Piked whales plus 50 endangered Fin whales in an established Whale Sanctuary in violation of a global moratorium on commercial whaling."[63] "[They] are in blatant violation of international conservation laws." "We are down here to enforce international conservation law and to stop the illegal whaling 'operations." " 'Nuff Said!
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