Japanese Whaling Ship Bugged
Remember when members of the radical animal rights group Sea Shepherd illegally boarded a Japanese ship last month to “deliver a letter” informing the crew of an Australian court ruling against Japanese whaling? Now they’re claiming that they planted tracking devices on the Japanese ships:
Watson said two crew from his protest ship Steve Irwin covertly planted tracking devices on the harpoon ship Yushin Maru No.2 when they boarded it mid-ocean on January 15, sparking a three-day standoff as they were held on board.
“They weren’t kept locked up, It seems strange, but they were able to move about the ship,” Watson said. He also hinted other homing devices had been planted on some or all of the six-ship fleet, either at sea on in port before leaving Japan.
“It’s not just the Yushin Maru, which they’re probably ripping to pieces right now,” he said. “We were able to do more than one. We’re pretty much able to track the entire fleet.”
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Perhaps the most obvious bluff ever. In reality they would probably try to keep it a secret. Hell even if it is there they can find it pretty easily if it’s transmitting data.
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Next they’ll be telling us that they’re flying around in a cloaked Klingon Bird of Prey trying to save the whales.
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[quote]“They weren’t kept locked up, It seems strange, but they were able to move about the ship,” Watson said. He also hinted other homing devices had been planted on some or all of the six-ship fleet, either at sea on in port before leaving Japan.[/quote]
This doesn’t sound like what he was saying when they were “imprisoned” on the boat. Wasn’t he going on about the dangers and depravities that they were having to endure?
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I’ve noticed that every time there is news about Greenpeace the editor refers to them as “the radical animal rights group”. Some of their actions may be seen as radical, but I’m not sure it’s fair to constantly label them this way.
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What part of “radical animal rights group Sea Shepherd” mentions Greenpeace?
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Sorry man, but the moment you start throwing bottles filled with acid at people, you stop being a animals right group and become a RADICAL animal rights group. Heck, i’d even call them borderline terrorists.
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Typical Aussie’s trying to talk it up! (Don’t get narky…I am an Aussie as well)
This is the sort of stuff I really hate though. I haven’t been following this that closely, but I do hope these guys are taken to court and put in jail for piracy…because that’s what they are!!! This sort of action will not change anything!!!
Just to be clear thought,I don’t agree with whaling however…..Australia has enough environmental issues to be fixed here first. Once we are a clean green machine, then perhaps we can pressuring other countries to change!!!!
But until then, any action is just Hypocritical!!!!
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Watson is not an Aussie.
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They were founded by Greenpeace. I was really referring to Greenpeace articles in general but thought I’d comment here after seeing the term ‘radical’ used again. But I suppose it’s fair enough to use in correlation with Sea Shepard.
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It looks like ninjas do exist.
Here’s a new word for them. “You just got Ninjaed.”
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