Greenpeace Goes Full Contact

Greenpeace defends anti-whaling tactics - Breaking News - National - Breaking News:

"Greenpeace said it welcomed any scrutiny of tactics, including incidents in which a Greenpeace ship and a whaler were involved in a minor collision.

The Japanese whaling industry's Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) said its crews were documenting the behaviour of Greenpeace ships Esperanza and Arctic Sunrise, claiming serious violations of maritime laws."

ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!

This is so dumb, what basis does Japan really have!

What makes them think that they have so much power or a good enough reason to do what they are and get away with it?

First off, the whaling that they are doing - which they call 'research whaling' - is not needed at all. The major scientific community organizations have said repeatedly before to Japan that the intended 'research' and whaling that they do is not needed. Plus, they won't learn anything new from it really. Also, it might be understood that Japan has an alternate motive for its so-called 'research' whaling and that is because Japan has a big market for whale meat.

Also any of the governing bodies for the control of international whaling such as the IWC or any of the others don't have a means of patrolling and controlling whaling, even though there has been a moratorium on whaling for the past several decades!

Greenpeace and some other organizations closely associated with Greenpeace are the only organizational bodies that are willing and able to patrol the seas and help put an end to unnecessary whaling, which is exactly what Japan is doing!!

If Japan were so concerned with abiding to International Maritime Laws, shouldn't they also be concerned with the laws established by the International Whaling Commission too on the preservation of the whale populations - which are practically on the verge of extinction!

Isn't the preservation of a species of greater worth than worrying about a scratch on a boat!!

NO JAPAN, you cannot pass the blame!! If you weren't out there whaling there wouldn't have been a situation anyways!

Get your priorities straight Japan....

I do not think that Greenpeace was in the wrong, but then again I probably don't know all the specifics about maritime law anyway to make an accurate judgement based solely on that...

Gary Schmidt