Today on NicoNico Douga: A Free Screening of “The Cove”

it would be A Free at last ?

Are you being rhetorical, James? Surely you see a difference between a movie about a controversial topic and a racist magazine labeling foreigners as criminals?

I support freedom of expression and freedom of speech. I’d rather these guys take the more open approach of writing letters or editorials to discuss the issue rather then doing everything in their power to keep the film out of theaters. Because let’s face it, even if this movie wasn’t single-mindedly against dolphin hunting, the right-wingers would be equally outraged.

With the Gaijin hanzai file, there was nothing to discuss. It was straight-up libel.

You claim that The Cove should be legally allowed to be shown at the movies. The Govt isnt banning the airing of the movies, it’s a decision of the theatres. Therefore there’s no problem of censorship. It’s a voluntary choice of the theatres. Did you forget the Civil Rights movement and the apartheid protests? When bus companies stopped making money (gov’t sanctioned racism)and when those coutries started to suffer economically, they changed their behaviour. What happened to capitalism? If it’s for money and especially if it’s not for money, there are other outlets to ‘spread’ The Cove. The protesters supposedly watched The Cove and came up with those conclusions.

There’s nothing wrong with screaming about don’t air the movie, they are not breaking the law. On the contrary, from what I heard, the producers of the cove broke the law, tresspassing on to private property and taking videos and photos without authorization which the police supposedly detained the persons committing the illegal acts. How would the director of cove feel, if the rightwingers did the tresspassing and ‘stalking’ to get personal information of the director and aired it on the movie theatres? I wonder if he would demand free speech?

If you want Cove to be allowed in the movie theatres, you have to allow the noisy rightwing protesters, as it is free speech. If you don’t you’re a hyprocrite and even possibly racist.
Hell, you’ll be hearing ‘lots of noise’ this 30 days cause of the election for the members of the Upper House of the Diet/parliament. Get used to ‘the noise’. BTW from what I understand, the cove received assistance and affiliation from the one and only sea shepard.

As long as the anti- whaling are hypocrites, the Japanese will continue to hunt whales and eat them. While at it, why not have a whale party and give a whale course meal everyday to the sea shepard guy in a japanese jail? How would Westerners feel, if Indians acted like Sea Shepard for eating beef steaks or if Muslims copies Sea Shepard because of eating pork chops?

Killing moby dicks and flippers are not criminal acts. IWC even sanctions whale hunting by Norway and Iceland for commercial hunting and Japanese for scientific research, which from what I understand as being reliable and credible than the protestters claim that the whales are so intelligent and like human beings. Maybe Australia and others should allow marriage to whales, if they are so ‘special’.

So what if the scientific killings are sold on the market, it’s legal and better than when moby dicks getting killed for their fat and their dead bodies get dumped in the sea or the cowboys killing bufallows and kangaroos for fun and leaving the dead out in the open field. Don’t come up with the nonsense of eating whale meat is wrong,as you’re probably eating those bloody red meat (rare steak) while you’re reading this. It’s only legit if you’re a hardcore vegetarian (grass only types).

If I was a Japanese, I would be even more motivated to having whale chops, whale karaage or even whale sashimi. The only thing anti whalers did was to make them look like hypocrites to the whole world and motivated the Japanese to eat even more whale. If the protests were done modestly without having a racist overtone, the culture of eating whale would have died probably this generation, but thanks to the anti- whalers terrorism, that whale eating culture will be around for another 100 years. As generally the Japanese don’t enjoy eating whale meat cause of the taste (????supposedly a fishy mutton taste????).

Jeez what genuises.

Judging from what the supporters of “The Cove” has done in Taiji, they don’t have the right to counterattack any kinds of protests, including illegal ones. As they tried to stop the dolphin hunting by spoiling the nets, the right wingers may trespass their office and burn the film. As they condemned the hunters associating Taiji with Auschwitz, the activists may denounce them as racists. What’s the problem then? That’s simply what they have done to others. I’d never sympathize them.

Hinomaru, you spend way too much time on the Internet. Go outside and live your life.