Australian citizen Benjamin Potts and British citizen Giles Lane captured!!...
Ecoterrorist claim they have been tied to the radar mast of the harpoon vessel!!!...
Avast yee matey!!!!...Arggg!
Posted on 01/15/2008 7:27:33 PM PST by ricks_place
Two members of the radical anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd are reportedly being held against their will on a Japanese whaling ship in Antarctic waters.
In a vessel called Steve Irwin, members of the group had been pursuing Japan's annual whaling hunt in the Antarctic for almost a month.
After locating five Japanese whaling boats this morning, two of its activists – Australian Benjamin Potts and British man Giles Lane – boarded the Yushin Maru No 2 vessel. They handed the crew a letter advising them they were "illegally killing whales" and were then detained.
"They were successful in delivering the message, but then they were not allowed to leave and return to our vessel," said Sea Shepherd spokeswoman Christine Vasic.
"Yushin Maru No 2 is still moving away from us and not responding to radio contact."
The Institute for Cetacean Research, which is linked to the Japanese government, confirmed the two men were detained and locked in a room on the ship, but denied claims by the Sea Shepherd founder, Paul Watson, that the two had been assaulted and bound by a rope to a mast.
"Any accusations that we have tied them up or assaulted them are completely untrue," said institute chief Minoru Morimoto.
"It is illegal to board another country's vessels on the high seas. As a result, they are being held in custody while decisions are made on their future," he said.
"The two boarded the Yushin Maru No 2 after they made attempts to entangle the screw of the vessel using ropes and throw bottles of acid on to the decks."
The incident occurred on the day that conservationists won a legal victory against Japanese whalers when the Australian federal court banned whaling in Australian waters.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
“Hook, ‘em, Danno-san!”
I would recommend the japs to use old "water-boarding" and keel-haul potts and "pans," I mean lanes !!!
What would we do without whale oil, light our lanterns with gasoline?
They should have harpooned them!!!!
Whale oil is a renewable resource. Obviously, people who care about the environment would prefer the use of Whale Oil to the use of fossil fuels.
Japan plans to hunt almost 1,000 minke and fin whales for research over the Antarctic summer, but has abandoned the cull of 50 humpback whales after international condemnation and a formal diplomatic protest by 31 nations.
Research? What kind of research requires that you kill over 1000 of them? What products are they harvesting that can't be obtained or manufactured using other means? Is this just high-dollar sushi?
Soylent Whale
they're pirates... shoulda shot em!!! now set their azz in the hold with only bread and water till they get back into port and have them arrested
Another angle, with an image of one of the Greenfece crybabies:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954405/posts
ROFLMAO!
Oh man, don’t demean my man Farley Mowat. I don’t agree with him on 95% of his writings, but, damn, he is a good writer. (See A Whale for the Killing).
Sea Shepard=terrorists.
If they boarded the Yushin Maru no. 2 without an “invite”, they may legally be detained as potential pirates under international law. That’s my Law Of The Sea.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954405/posts <<<
Thanks for the link.
I did not see the greenie ships, that I saw detailed photos of a year or so ago.
The leading tip of the ship had been reinforced as a battering ram and could slice into a ship and cause it to sink.
I do not recall if the photos were here or in an Australian publication....
evil people are in this world, to save one fish, they do not count the number of humans they kill.
sea shepherd = Terrorists
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