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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: MrsSmith on February 05, 2009, 07:41:22 PM
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depakid (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-05-09 08:07 PM
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Protest ship rams whaler
Advertisements [?]Source: Sydney Morning Herald
A protest ship in the Southern Ocean has rammed a Japanese whaling vessel in what protesters say is the most intense clash the two groups have ever had. Captain Paul Watson, from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, said his ship, the Steve Irwin, was forced to hit the Japanese ship Yushin Maru No. 2 about 8.30am (AEDT).
Mr Watson said his protest ship was trying to stop the Japanese from pulling a whale onto a ship when the clash happened. "The Yushin Maru No. 1 was transferring the whale up the slipway and we were trying to block that transfer and the Yushin Maru No. 2 just shot right in front of us," Mr Watson said, speaking via satellite phone.
"I couldn't move to starboard without hitting the vessel and I couldn't move to port without hitting them. "I tried to back off, but it was too sudden and we ran right into their stern ... they threw themselves right in front of us. There wasn't anything we could do". Mr Watson said he crushed a railing at the back of the Japanese ship but was unaware of anyone being injured. He said in the five years his ships had been confronting the Japanese in Antarctic waters, this season had seen the most extreme clashes.
"This has certainly been the most intense confrontation we have had with the Japanese whalers over the last five campaigns we have had down here," Mr Watson said. "We have never seen them this aggressive. They are obviously frustrated at the money they are losing and they have been ordered to do whatever needs to be done in order to prevent us from preventing them from killing whales."
So, how does the DUmp handle the news of such violent confrontations...
Taverner (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-05-09 08:13 PM
Response to Reply #1
3. I'm actually glad they did it
If they sank the whaling ship, I probably wouldn't shed a tear
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-05-09 08:20 PM
Response to Reply #8
10. There was nothing violent about their tactics
The Whaling ship was trying to dock, they stopped them, and because the whalers were playing "chicken" they got hit
Poor widdle whalers! They only wanted drive the mean nasty whales into extinction
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-05-09 08:19 PM
Response to Reply #6
9. you don't get it-- the Steve Irwin's tactics are NONVIOLENT....
Edited on Thu Feb-05-09 08:20 PM by mike_c
Blocking access to the slipway with their own bodies is the equivalent of a sit-in. It's completely non-violent action. The Steve Irwin's crew are heroes, IMO.
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-05-09 08:15 PM
Response to Reply #1
5. no, they're not....
Edited on Thu Feb-05-09 08:17 PM by mike_c
They were trying to block the factory ship slipway, to prevent the transfer of a whale-- the equivalent of a sit-in. Nonviolent. The Yushin Maru #2 attempted to interfere, putting its crew and the Steve Irwin's crew in jeopardy-- all to maintain the bloody profits of factory whalers. Piss on that.
DUmp logic...either deny they were violent, or excuse them...after all, it was "really" the other guy's fault, as always. ::) ::)
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Ramming whalers?!??!?!
Whew!
For a minute there I was afraid it was a story about Rosie O Donnell getting a botfriend.
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Sea Shepherd should get the DGSE treatment like the rainbow warrior did.
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Bunch of fucing nut bags over there... but we all knew that already.
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Sea Shepherd should get the DGSE treatment like the rainbow warrior did.
France could use another victory.
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-05-09 08:20 PM
Response to Reply #8
10. There was nothing violent about their tactics
The Whaling ship was trying to dock, they stopped them, and because the whalers were playing "chicken" they got hit
Poor widdle whalers! They only wanted drive the mean nasty whales into extinction
Your mother should be bitch slapped into oblivion for not aborting you.
Get it DUmmy?
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international waters.... protest vessel vanishes without a trace....
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Can we treat the butt-pirates as just plain ol' regular pirates?
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Environmental nutcases to The Sea Policeman, "Honest officer, he backed into us."
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Insert abortion clinic for whaler and SUV for protest ship and see what those DUmbasses think.
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Insert abortion clinic for whaler and SUV for protest ship and see what those DUmbasses think.
:ohsnap:
:nutkick:
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Insert abortion clinic for whaler and SUV for protest ship and see what those DUmbasses think.
:clap:
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Insert abortion clinic for whaler and SUV for protest ship and see what those DUmbasses think.
...make that a Prius hitting the abortion clinic. That'll leave 'em conflicted. :-)
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If they really wanted to be effective, they would interfere with the whaleboat to keep it from killing the whale in the first place, not prevent them from transferring an already dead whale onto the main ship.
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If they really wanted to be effective, they would interfere with the whaleboat to keep it from killing the whale in the first place, not prevent them from transferring an already dead whale onto the main ship.
Remember, with Liberals - and DUmmies especially - it's not about the results; it's about their intentions and wishes.
If this weren't so, Dear Leader wouldn't have been Teh BarackStar! that he obviously is.
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If they really wanted to be effective, they would interfere with the whaleboat to keep it from killing the whale in the first place, not prevent them from transferring an already dead whale onto the main ship.
That's be like telling them not to get pregnant instead of having an abortion.
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That's be like telling them not to get pregnant instead of having an abortion.
:clap:
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Protest ship rams whale, Subway Cat lost at sea.