On Jun 12, 8:14*pm, "J. Clarke" > wrote:
> On 6/10/2010 8:11 PM, --Bryan wrote:
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> > On Jun 10, 2:12 pm, "James >
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> >> * George *wrote *on Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:49:16 -0500:
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> >>> On 6/10/2010 11:38 AM, Mark Thorson wrote:
> >>>> He pleads guilty for acid attack.
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> >>>>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.
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> > The Japanese didn't back down in 1945 until they were terrorized into
> > doing so.
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> And it took two atomic bombs and the Red Army to pull that off. *You
> really think they'll back down for a bunch of ecoloons?

The whaling thing is nowhere near the loss of face that the 1945
surrender was. IIRC, the only condition of that surrender was no
punishment for the emperor.
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> >> 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.
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> > Not at all. *The 7YO is innocent. *The whalers are not. *One person's
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> **** off the Japs enough and they may decide that it's time to turn that
> self defense force back into a Navy and start using it. *

Yeah, right. They're going to withdraw from the nuke treaty because a
tiny non-governmental activist group massacres a few of their
nationals. Are they really going to attack any state that condemns
the action? Any terrorist who isn't willing to die for his cause
should consider a different course of action. Sitting on the
sidelines, I'd find it entertaining.

Do my heart good to see Sea Shepherd eat a Harpoon.

Just like it'd do mine to see a Japanese whaler on the end of a
harpoon.

--Bryan