Ace (Bruce Foerster) trumps King (Japan whaling influence)

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http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_060622_1.html

Sea Shepherd is an organization of visionary, resourceful, and aggressive individuals. One of our long time members Bruce Foerster demonstrated this principle this week.

Everyone had assumed that Belize was a bought and paid for nation recruited by Japan. But Belize was the first nation to realize that doing the bidding of Japan could have grave economic consequences for the tourism industry.

Bruce who owns a hotel in Belize, certainly made Belize aware of the consequences. In an e-mail dated May 21st, 2006, Bruce gave Belize an ultimatum.

It looks like Bruce’s protest along with other concerns expressed from the tourism sector in Belize reached the government’s ears.

Belize did no favors for Japan and the Belize vote was 5 for 5 for the whales.
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You MUST read the e-mail/letter at the above link. So sweet.