"Doug Freyburger" > wrote in message
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> Paul M. Cook wrote:
>>
>> I have seen the video many times today. And others as well. The smaller
>> boat was oing what it was supposed to do, ie get in the way of the
>> harpoon
>> ship. That is their objective. I can see the harpoon vessel under full
>> throttle gunning towards the small boat and then making a hard over to
>> port
>> to ram the boat. Trust me, if you've seen those boats in action on Whale
>> Wars you'll see they are amazingly agile and can easily have avoided a
>> collision from that distance.
>
> So it was everybody's fault. Thus making this entire thing purely
> entertainment.
>
> Most of the world object to whaling for what reason? If they object
> because in the past humans hunted many whale species nearly to
> extinction and we might still end up pushing some of them to extinction,
> these guys are hunting the high population Minke species. That's not
> one in danger of extintion. If they object because whales are cute like
> Bambi go have some venison and get over it. If they object because
> certain whale species like Orcas are highly intelligent then I don't
> need to be impressed by folks who can't tell the difference.
>
> But whale meat tastes gross? Okay, I'll go with that one.
>
> I bet there's a better reason. Minke's eat krill and fish eat krill.
> Fewer Minkes mean more krill mean more fish. Fish are good for dancing
> singing penguins and dancing singing penguins are cute. Oh wait.
> Dancing singing penguins taste gross ...


Whales are still threatened species and not suitable for commercial hunting.
The Japanese use bogus population numbers to set their quotas. The Japanese
have resorted to violence against protestors many times in the past. This
fits their MO.

It is an obscenity that they engage in it merely to make a point. It exists
for no other reason.

Paul