"J. Clarke" > wrote in message
...
> On 6/10/2010 8:57 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>> "James > 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.
>
> Nope, it is not legal at all to violate the rules of navigation, which
> they do regularly.


The Dutch government shut down their practice of heaving the butyric acid
from ship top ship. Now it has to be done only from the skiffs. So what
kind of lawless pirates obey the rules they are given? If SS actually did
violate laws they would be shut down in a second.

Paul