On 6/13/2010 3:04 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
> "J. > 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.

Only if it can be proven to a court with jurisdiction over them.