On Jan 6, 2:48*pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
> Japanese whaling ship hits Sea Shepard speedboat,
> causing major damage.
>
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...rticle-1237983
>
> Predictably, Sea Shepard is claiming they were delibrately rammed.
> But this boat of theirs was capable of 50 knots. *It's way
> faster than a ship. *It's so fast that they can put themselves
> in a position for a collision, take a still picture, and a ship
> has too much momentum to prevent it. *The Japanese say the
> video exonerates them of delibrately ramming the speedboat.

It's too bad that someone didn't just destroy the whaling ship,
killing all of those on board.

I don't provide material support for eco terrorists, and I don't agree
with most of their goals, but if I heard that they were bombing those
Japanese *research* ships, I'd get a warm fuzzy.

--Bryan