"blake murphy" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:57:25 -0700, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>
>> "James Silverton" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> George wrote on Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:49:16 -0500:
>>>
>>>> On 6/10/2010 11:38 AM, Mark Thorson wrote:
>>>>> He pleads guilty for acid attack.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worl.../11/2003475166
>>>
>>>> Looks like they are throwing him under the bus. Hypocrites.
>>>
>>>> FWIW... I am in complete agreement that whaling should be
>>>> totally illegal but I am in complete opposition to the tactics
>>>> that the Sea Shepard Conservation Society and Paul Watson
>>>> employs.
>>>
>>>> Spend your money fighting in the courts instead of playing
>>>> "pirate of the seven seas" and get results legally.
>>>
>>> I am against all whale killing (and murder, for that matter) but I don't
>>> think terrorism is the way to prevent them. It's a bit like revenge,
>>> which
>>> just perpetuates injustice and on the level of the Taliban killing a
>>> seven-year old to teach his parents a lesson.
>>>
>>
>> What the Sea Sheppard does is completely legal. They are acting within
>> international law and fly the Dutch flag and answer to Dutch authority.
>> They are not terrorists by any definitions of the word.
>>
>> Paul
>
> i'm not sure where this 'terrorism' jazz is coming from, either. are the
> sea shepherds blowing up civilians?

Terrorism is now a word that has been so overused it has completely lost its
meaning.

Paul