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Turkish tuna fishermen ram Greenpeace ship (take notes)
MSNBC ^
| 5/30/2008
| AP
Posted on 05/30/2008 7:18:19 PM PDT by tobyhill
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish tuna fishermen rammed their boat into a Greenpeace ship Friday and pelted it with lead fishing weights, the environmental group said. No one was injured.
The fishing vessel was among several that swarmed the Arctic Sunrise, which was carrying activists campaigning against overfishing in the Mediterranean. The boat rammed the Greenpeace ship at high speed, said Yesim Aslan, a spokeswoman for the group.
The barrage of lead weights damaged a helicopter that the activists had used earlier in the day to document the vessels' activities, Aslan said.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arcticsunrise; coastalenvironment; environment; environozis; fishing; greenpeace; sodoffswampy; turkey
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To: tobyhill
21
posted on
05/30/2008 7:44:41 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: tobyhill
“Tommy, have you ever been taken prisoner on a Turkish tuna boat?”
22
posted on
05/30/2008 7:46:34 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: SandRat
Gotta like those Turks.
Except in this instance, Greenpeace is right.
Tuna are in fact being horrendously overfished in the Mediterranean.
To: sport
I 2nd that ....
The environmentalist are the main reason why we are in the mess we find ourselves in.
To: tobyhill
25
posted on
05/30/2008 7:50:11 PM PDT
by
DarthVader
(Liberal Democrats are the party of EVIL whose time of judgement has come.)
To: tobyhill
Hardihar, good news tonight.
26
posted on
05/30/2008 7:50:31 PM PDT
by
bboop
(Stealth Tutor)
To: PAR35
Yep. When the US X Army was routed north of Seoul the Turkish Brigade stood it's ground and was slaughtered to the last man.
27
posted on
05/30/2008 7:52:20 PM PDT
by
Hugin
(Mecca delenda est!)
To: george76
I’ve never seen anyone less amenable to listening to our point of view. I love it. Just because the wienies WANT to talk/ just because Obama WANTS to talk — doesn’t mean the other guys want to.
I love it when the non-PC folks do NOT buy into the green agenda. Kind of a good model.
28
posted on
05/30/2008 7:52:45 PM PDT
by
bboop
(Stealth Tutor)
To: RichInOC
“Tommy, have you ever been taken prisoner on a Turkish tuna boat?”
—
Tommy, have you ever seen a Turkish fishing spear up close?
29
posted on
05/30/2008 7:53:14 PM PDT
by
Rembrandt
(We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
To: tobyhill
No one was injured. awww... too bad. Better luck next time guys!
30
posted on
05/30/2008 7:53:44 PM PDT
by
chaos_5
To: SandRat
31
posted on
05/30/2008 7:57:09 PM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(Nothing is better than a young, nubile, little Asian Girlie.)
To: ASA Vet
32
posted on
05/30/2008 8:01:20 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
(The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
To: NewHampshireDuo; tobyhill; FlingWingFlyer; ApplegateRanch
To: tobyhill
If Greenpeace really wanted to do something useful they would work with the fishermen to start a tuna hatchery and everyone would get what they want. But no, Greenpeace is willing to spend large amounts of money just to keep someone else from earning a living and feel self righteous.
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posted on
05/30/2008 8:03:41 PM PDT
by
count-your-change
(you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: PAR35
How did the Turks help in the Korean war?
35
posted on
05/30/2008 8:13:51 PM PDT
by
tbw2
("Sirat: Through the Fires of Hell" by Tamara Wilhite - on amazon.com)
To: sport; ken21; SandRat; PAR35; tobyhill
36
posted on
05/30/2008 8:15:06 PM PDT
by
monkeycard
(There is no such thing as too much ammo.)
To: ASA Vet
Ah, there’s a lot of white meat there...
37
posted on
05/30/2008 8:16:54 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
To: tobyhill
To: george76; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
File under “hoist by their own petard”. :’D
39
posted on
05/30/2008 8:23:07 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
To: tobyhill
Too bad the lead wasn’t flying at supersonic speeds.
40
posted on
05/30/2008 8:23:44 PM PDT
by
Paleo Conservative
(1984 was supposed to be a warning not an instruction manual!)
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