Posted on 06/10/2015 4:00:36 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society agreed to pay $2.55 million to Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research on Monday as part of a settlement to resolve a long-standing legal battle over the anti-whaling group’s tactics against Japanese whaling ships in the Antarctic.
The settlement came the same day the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Sea Shepherd’s appeal of a federal court’s finding that the group was in contempt of a court order to stay clear of Japanese whaling ships.
The activist group’s tactics at sea include throwing smoke bombs at Japanese whaling ships and using metal-reinforced ropes to damage propellers and rudders. The question is whether those tactics—which typically take place in international waters—amount to piracy, and whether a U.S. court can order those activities to be stopped if they take place outside its jurisdiction.
Sea Shepherd believes it can’t, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Court upheld that it can. Now, thanks to the settlement, Sea Shepherd will be giving millions of dollars to an organization it has tirelessly battled against in a fight to save the whales.
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I agree.
An act of piracy if there ever was one.
The will be here.
Then when an international court tells you to surrender your guns, I am sure you’ll comply. When the international court tells you what to eat, I am sure you will comply too because cows are smart as well and contribute to global warming. And someone else considers riding a horse among them a mystical experience.
Yea, the full reverse thrust clearly seen in the vids showed it was dead in the water. Not.
Any other propaganda for liberals you care to have easily debunked?
“Oh I stopped my car in front of a moving truck and they hit me. The jerks! Wah! Wah!”
Paul Watson is an ecoterrorist who stays out of Europe because he’s a wanted man there. Also, he makes a point of telling his hippies that they might get killed during his activities, but then when things get tough, he’s the first to board a skiff in the middle of the night and skedaddle, leaving them to fend for themselves.
They are researching all the tasty ways you can cook up whale. Seems legit to me.
I used to enjoy yanking their chains with facts that went against the enviroterrorist agenda. Watching it you could tell it was a good scam to bang some naive hippy chicks.
A whale is an animal; just like a steer or a pig.
Considering what hippy chicks smell like, especially fanatical ones on a boat, I think I’d go gay... Or do the whale.
keel haul em!
hey! what did the whale ever do to you??
Here is a magazine. Better choice than the ones you where presented with.
What did the cow ever do you toy to make you eat so many of them?
Same thing. Different mammal.
Oops...misread which post you replied to ;)
In the case of the whale, who among us hasn’t had at least one after the bar closed? ;)
No - not true. The Ady Gill had engine problems at the time and the whaler accelerated and turned into it. It was deliberate collision and of course, the Japanese lied about it to the world.
Didn’t have any problems churning up a very visual clue it wasn’t dead in the water. Nor did it’s quick but not in time movement show it to be dead in the water.
Lying about what anyone with eyes can see is not helping your position.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua5RHIOamPo
What is all that white stuff suddenly appearing aft where the props are? I wonder? Perhaps Boat blood from it’s death prior to the impact I suppose.
Did you know whales fart?
Funny how it is only Japanese ships they go after.
Maybe a bit.... RACIST!
(No, I have no idea but the libs use it. I am going to do the same until the word has no meaning.)
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