Japan to Resume Antarctic Whaling

[Duppers]

Despite the moratorium on commercial whaling passed in 1982 by the International Whaling Commission, Japan has continued to kill whales, under the guise of “scientific research”. Now Japan and Greenland have announced they will begin hunting Humpback Whales.

Whalers have wiped out 98% of Antarctic Humpbacks.

Whalers report Humpbacks are the easiest to hunt.


By clicking on the TAKE ACTION NOW button, you can send a message that this horrific killing must stop.

http://bluevoice.org/jcemail/whale-protest.html

[wtmusic]

1. Done. K&R.

:thumbsup:

[bananarepublican]

2. *uck Japan and Norway! Can't Greenpeace invest in a few obsolete Soviet subs? n/t

[TheMightyFavog]

3. Nah, air dropped torpedo would work just as well.

Cheaper, too.

Hell, just pick up an Exocet.

[Thothmes]

4. Torpedo's

So its ok to kill sailors because they are trying feed their families. Maybe it would be ok for the whalers to have Japanese navy escort's to sink the greenpeace ships. Good, just what the world needs is another war. Is killing the only resolution that can be thought of.

[TheMightyFavog]

7. Dude, lighten up.

We were just joking.

[The Stranger]

9. The taboo against violence is cited by the epowered when it suits them.

But the empowered maintain power through violence over and against the disempowered and the marginalized.

[wuushew]

5. Can some one please cite what Japanese public support for whaling is?

Is this a problem of culture or one of politics?


Spock: To hunt a species to extinction is not logical.

Gillian: Whoever said the human race was logical?

-Star Trek IV

[Duppers]

11. good point, wuushew

I think it's cultural. Asian culture had little regard for animal life in general; they eat dogs, cats, and other animals we consider pets. Perhaps this is because of their not-too-ancient history when so many of them were starving?

My son had a Chinese roommate whom I used to tease about the things the Chinese would eat. He once responded that they had a saying in China, "We take everything.......to the kitchen!"

Empathy is not their middle name.


('Course there are things that my veggie friends could say about Americans' eating intelligent pigs, etc....so, who are we to judge?)

[Annces]

6. Sea Shepherd has been successfully interfering

with their whaling efforts. The season starts again December 2007.

Whaling in the Antarctic sanctuary is illegal, but no country is stopping them. Greenpeace has gone soft and does not chase the Japanese anymore.

http://www.seashepherd.org/editorials/editorial_070216_1.html

[The Stranger]

8. Thank God for Sea Shepherd.

Carry on, my brothers and sisters, carry on.

[NightWatcher]

10. Good job guys

Do you need any "pirate wannabe volunteers"?

I'd love to spend a month or two chasing corporate whalers

[Marrah_G]

12. I can't understand why any educated society ...

would harm these magnificent animals, it takes them so long to recover their numbers.