Fail: Sea Shepherd

[Hinny]

Another comment on the legality of Japanese whaling.

4:00 AM Sunday Mar 7, 2010 MELBOURNE:
' Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has reiterated his Government's stance of prosecuting Japanese whalers in an international court if they continue their annual cull'

"Either the Government of Japan agrees to reduce its current catch from where it is to zero, in a reasonable time, or the Australian Government will prosecute this matter in the international court of justice and we would initiate that action prior to the next whaling season," he said.

The IWC adopted a moratorium on whaling in 1982 when many whale species were facing extinction.

Japan uses a provision in the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling which allows whales to be killed for scientific research

[McJim]

A4:00 AM Sunday Mar 7, 2010 MELBOURNE:
' Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has reiterated his Government's stance of prosecuting Japanese whalers in an international court if they continue their annual cull'

"Either the Government of Japan agrees to reduce its current catch from where it is to zero, in a reasonable time, or the Australian Government will prosecute this matter in the international court of justice and we would initiate that action prior to the next whaling season," he said.

Yet more proof that it is impossible to create a nation just out of convicts and Irishmen.

[Hinny]

You are denigrating your Celtic brotherhood there Brother.

[Kickaha]

Yet more proof that it is impossible to create a nation just out of convicts and Irishmen.

Australia's first European settlement began in 1788. The 11 ships of the First Fleet landed their cargo of around 780 British convicts and their gaolers at Botany Bay in New South Wales. Eighty years later, when the final shipment of convicts disembarked in Western Australia, the total number of transported convicts had risen to around 162,000 men and women.

About 70% were English, 5% Scottish and 25% Irish,

Scottish Convicts.
There were 8,207 Scottish convicts among nearly 150,000 transported to Australia. Interesting enough only 4.8 per cent of male convicts were Scottish, and 9.3 per cent were female. A relatively large number of Scottish convicts were transported for larceny (burglary and break and entering) committed in or around Glasgow and Edinburgh.

[JimO]

yea those scottsmen are a pack of cunts

[McJim]

Official adjudication - both at fault.....go figure.

[imdying]

No surprise, they were both being dicks, the only difference is that the Ady Gill started it. Bit like little kids really.

[Laava]

Japan uses a provision in the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling which allows whales to be killed for scientific research

Wonder what the findings are of their research?
99.9% of japanese like whale meat. Om nom nom!

[Hinny]

.... the only difference is that the Ady Gill started it. .

I suppose you also have the answer to the question 'Which came first, the chicken or the egg?'

[JimO]

I suppose you also have the answer to the question 'Which came first, the chicken or the egg?'

well if the egg hadnt been there the chicken wouldnt have run over the top of it

[Hinny]

well if the egg hadnt been there the chicken wouldnt have run over the top of it

I thought the egg head on the Jap boat was playing chicken and didn't swerve away fast enough and ran that awesome boat over.
Million bucks down the drain.
Get the good lawyers eh! and you can get away with anything. A bit like when the Aussies chased the Jappers out of the tooth fishery in Antarctica and most and the way to South Africa ...and the bastards got off. Had the better lawyers.
Probably should have fired a warning shot through their engine room. That would have stopped them.

[JimO]

I thought the egg head on the Jap boat was playing chicken and didn't swerve away fast enough and ran that awesome boat over.
Million bucks down the drain.
Get the good lawyers eh! and you can get away with anything. A bit like when the Aussies chased the Jappers out of the tooth fishery in Antarctica and most and the way to South Africa ...and the bastards got off. Had the better lawyers.
Probably should have fired a warning shot through their engine room. That would have stopped them.

im with the japs on this one, the only egg was the one driving the Ady Gill

[jonbuoy]

I thought the egg head on the Jap boat was playing chicken and didn't swerve away fast enough and ran that awesome boat over.
Million bucks down the drain.
Get the good lawyers eh! and you can get away with anything. A bit like when the Aussies chased the Jappers out of the tooth fishery in Antarctica and most and the way to South Africa ...and the bastards got off. Had the better lawyers.
Probably should have fired a warning shot through their engine room. That would have stopped them.

Ships can't "swerve", small fast boats can swerve.

[Hinny]

Ships can't "swerve", small fast boats can swerve.

As the video footage clearly shows Japanese whalers can indeed swerve. Had that boat not been so maneuverable they would not have collected the Ady Gil.
Perhaps you should view the video footage again.
I have been amased by the comments in this thread that display how different various people's reality can be.
The reality that people often determine their own 'reality' irrespective of available evidence.

[tri boy]

As I mentioned earlier, poor seamanship is the main fault.
Glad to see that was the outcome.
There will be hundreds of more examples over this summer in NZ waters.
The Gill is gone, the whales are still around. The Japanese will eat.
What a waste of a fine vessel.
Bethume should dive under the water thrice, and come up for air twice.
This thread is as dead as the bleeding carcass of an experimental whale on the deck.
Let it go,(the thread, not the whale, I still want to taste some)