Australia’s crackpot left has once again thrown its lot in with eco-terrorist group Sea Shepherd, demanding Japan release operative Peter Bethune, arrested for illegally boarding a whaling vessel on the high seas, supposedly in an effort to capture it.
After former Sea Shepherd captain Peter Bethune (a New Zealand national) boarded the Japanese whaler, he was held in loose confinement onboard whilst the ship made its way back to Japan, then transferred to Tokyo where he was arrested pending an investigation by the Japan Coast Guard.
Sea Shepherd’s backers in the Australian Green Party vow that they will see him escape punishment for his crimes, and Green leader Senator Bob Brown called on Australian Prime Minister Rudd to secure the terrorist’s release.
Grandstanding for the cameras, he fraudulently claimed Japan “has no jury system” and highlights the “98%” conviction rate of Japanese courts, apparently implying that fair trials are impossible there as a result:
“There will be an international campaign to free Peter Bethune so if either the Australian or New Zealand authorities thought it was all going to die away, it will not.
The crew on the Shonan Maru No.2 ought to be in the dock and the ship impounded … for illegal whaling and illegally refuelling in the Antarctic and illegally running down the Ady Gil.”
As well as calling for the release of a pirate and terrorist, the party also criticised its own government for allowing federal police to conduct searches of Sea Shepherd vessels, accusing them of being in Tokyo’s thrall, a charge which would undoubtedly strike many in Japan as ironic considering the unerringly supine position of their own government in international relations.
Sea Shepherd for its part still intends to charge Japan with piracy after the loss of one of its vessels during risky maneuvers for the cameras.
Meanwhile Japanese media gleefully reports how the confined skipper happily tucked in to meals of meat and fish on the voyage back to Japan, despite supposedly enforcing a strictly vegetarian diet on his own vessel.
The year’s theatrics have otherwise subsided, with Japanese whalers thought to have taken about 700 Minke whales in the season, of a global population estimated to be around 1,000,000. How much Sea Shepherd received in donations is not recorded.
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Man.... its too hard to get the Japs to stop whaling, its what they take pride in and belongs to a part of their "culture". But if its just for the sake of one country's culture that's going to diminish the number of a species that we have on our planet, then its better to cut down and restrain oneself (or one country) to stop harming the planet.
Human beings have already done enough damage to the planet and where do those numbers even come from? Wiki ? JP sites that promotes whaling? And guys, I don't think they're "using" the whales' leftover carcass as meat, they're hunting them FOR the meat in the name of scientific research. Which is the same as a cannibal eating another human and saying that he/she is doing this in the name of "anthropological research" for the delicacy of the human race =_+
LOL eat whale is NOT SAME as eat HUMAN, u stupid !
Fuck Japan.
...just felt like no one was taking the other side of the argument. I'm done.
Australia is the new FF13, apparently.
Save a whale, eat a Japanese...
"Australian Greens Demand Japan Release Terrorist"
Terrorist ? Objectivity, I'm calling your name...
Screw Sea Shepherds! They make Japanese look like evil, whale killing jerks. And since people watching Whale Wars on TV are to lazy to think for themselves they never realise how stupid it is.
F U Sea Shepherd! >:(
I'm still waiting for my Sea Shepherd anime. Looks like it's going to be drama instead of action/adventure... lol
Oh those silly aussies and their whales. What has a whale ever done for anyone?? (aside from being a lame tourist trap and eating all the plankton in our oceans) I'd say Japan's done more for the world than some stupid swimming mammal that doesn't even really taste that good and isn't really huggable D;
I am an Aussie (unfortunately.) and I think they should lock him up.
Koreans hate Australia. And now Japanese hate Australia. Australia is so f##ked up.
I like how this website likes to portray Japan as utterly innocent even though these whalers keep illegally entering Australian waters. I don't agree with Sea Shepard, but I can guarantee you if the Japanese went into American waters...
well, you'd be escorted out by gunpoint. They get away with this because, well, the Australians don't want to cause an international disaster by escorting an illegal ship out of their waters with a military vessel.
It doesn't excuse Sea Shepard, but both sides are criminals here.
At least China doesn't put up with Japan's bullshit. They get escorted out by warships there too.
If I were Japan, I would make a hentai parody of the crew of the Sea Shepard getting f*cked by mink whales...With tentacles...
AND YET ANOTHER PRO JAPAN HYPOCRITICAL POST !
Now, if only they do the same thing to Equality Now's operatives...
I have never said what Japan is doing whaling is right. What I said was the group there with the sea shepherd are using tactics which are identical in every why to someone burning down a persons business, a persons house, killing their dogs and cats, kidnapping their kids, just because they disagree with the persons beliefs.
If the Japanese whalers are breaking that many laws get the Nato or UN whatever to put a stop to it, not destructive dangerous and deadly conduct to get in the way.
Its the GREENs, what other course of action do you think the Greens Party will take in any country?
Don't release this idiot. they want only attention. Attention = money = discovery channel.
Fuck Sea Ship.
Agree! \(`_´)
I dont think whaling is right
but Aussies are also overboard
aussies are such attention whores, no one cares about them so they've been doing all sorts of crazy things lately
Such a luxury, he got free treatment for his finger and now he's enjoying Sushi on the ship, after trying to illegally board in?
this pity guy is enjoying a comfortable voyage
his sack was fulled with traveler'sets,favorite pajamas,pillow,tooth brush,novel and psp.
that...is a good point...i think we should all join sea shepard for the same treatment
He's a vegetarian ya nitwit.
Fucking japs we should nuke them again
Meanwhile Japanese media gleefully reports how the confined skipper happily tucked in to meals of meat and fish on the voyage back to Japan, despite supposedly enforcing a strictly vegetarian diet on his own vessel......
so what??...should he have died from hunger???....fking japanese goverment
Guys pretty muscular, and even regular guys like you and I can go three or four days without eating The more muscle you have, the longer you can go. IIRC Chris Ryan went 8 days, and that was with sub-zero temperatures, in a war zone, covering close to 300km on foot. This guy could have managed.
Besides, there's no way the crew would have been living on fish alone while they're out there, you get ill if you keep eating the same food all the time. He could have skipped that part of the meal and just eaten the rest. :)
He should've saved those 25,000 dolphins slaughtered each year in Japan
Fffff. He should've been working on helping those 25,000 dolphins that are slaughtered each year in Japan!
Japanese whalers round up the biggest, smartest and most viscious cats on the planet and begin breeding a Supercat. The result of their project is something like a cougar on crank. They release several thousand of these uber-nekos in the Australian countryside so they can hook up with the ferrel cats and make lots and lots of nice little kittens. Now THAT would be funny.
Do your wailing in ur own sea! Soon there won't be any left for you to murder!
even there's no whale well they can still alive . LOL . stupid people ! nature is there to serve humans
Searching online about petitions and stuff, I found several from or related to Sea Shepard calling to stop Japan Whaling.
I just wonder.... is there a petition for Sea Shepard to "STFU!" and to Australia to "MIND YOUR OWN F*CKING BUSINESS, YA HYPOCRITICAL B*ST*RDS AND B*ITCHES!" KILLING INNOCENT CATS AND DOGS!!!"
"F*CK OFF!"
-IN REGARD TO THE STORY-
DUDE is a eco-terrorist and a pirate, he illegally boarded a ship and tried to make a citizen arrest, or "threaten and attempted kidnap" the captain. DUDE should go to jail.
His reason to board and "arrest" the captain is irrelevant, he evidently illegally boarded someone else's ship, it's a clear violation.
STUPID F*CKING AUSTRALIANS FAILED TO SEE THAT POINT?!
No wonder any good Australians left the country, ain't no use staying with a bunch of MORONS!
Could you site your estimate of 1,000,000 whales? I have not been able to corroborate this number.
Hmm... Maybe it's because they were whaling in Australian waters?
no ! it's international waters
So the shonan maru 2 rams a sea shepherd boat, capsizes it, ignores the distress calls, and peter bethune is the bad guy?
Yeah, I know, and the Jews ruined Germany's economy and suddenly Hitler is a war criminal. Yeesh.
A pirate is a pirate even if he sea sherpherd or not. Boarding to another ship without permission is a pirate act.
Don't kill whales, crabs, cats, dogs, turtles, chickens, turkeys, ducks, horses, cows, vegetables, lobsters, kangaroos, tigers, lions... etc. (Doesn't include humans)
Go Sea Shepherd!
Throw the book at him...or better yet, a minke whale.
New Zealand has already thrown this moron to the sharks where extremist douchebags like him deserve. As much as their cause is noble, their methods are deplorable.
Let them rot in jail. Preferably on a diet of whale meat.
kill
This is dumb.
I'm Australian. I'm very sorry. The Greens Party exists as something like the retarded brother in the family. Please, if you're American be kind, you didn't always have Black Superman for a president, you know what it's like.
Actually I'd liken that "black superman" to the Greens party.
The Greens are hardly "crackpot left".
That said, I do not necessarily support their endorsement of Sea Shepherd, or Sea Shepherd's activities.
My problem with whaling remains the fact that it is conducted under false pretences for commercial purposes, to the objection of the majority of the IWC. I am also aware of no scientific consensus supporting a cull of minke whales which is one of the multiple excuses (others including 'research' and 'tradition') claimed by whalers.
The whalers should not be operating in the Southern Ocean, and thus they have no right to complain if protesters attempt to impede their progress using non-lethal methods.
It is inaccurate to claim the the Ady Gil was engaged in "risky manoeuvres" at the time of the collision. Video taken on board the Ady Gil prior to the collision clearly shows that the majority of the crew were on deck relaxing, and had shut the engines down. The collision was probably not intentional on either side, however both sides bear responsibility for failing to steer clear of each other. The Shonan Maru 2 bears more responsibility due to the fact that it was underway at the time, while the Ady Gil apparently was not.
All that said, Peter Bethune willingly boarded the Shonan Maru 2, and must accept the consequences of his actions. It is obvious, however, that this was nothing more than a publicity stunt. To treat it as anything other than that is silly.
Let's try and avoid bias on either side, shall we?
Saying he should be forgiven for illegally bording a vessel because his action was a publicity stunt is nonsense.
The motivation for the crime might have some impact on the sentence, but that doesn't mean no crime was committed.
Otherwise you'd end up with lawyers defending murderers by going "Well, my client didn't actually have anything against the guy he shot, he just did it to get attention. Therefore he should be let off scot free."
That makes no sense whatsoever.
truely unbiased people are those who don't give a damn.
Shut up and pick a side, damn it.
Part of your statement is bull. "...the majority of the crew were on deck relaxing, and had shut the engines down."
Just watched that video and it's obvious that as the whaler was passing they gunned the idling engines to deliberately put themselves under the larger ship's bow.
It was nothing more than another publicity stunt that in this case was designed to make them out as poor victims that tried to stop the big bad whalers but instead got hurt themselves.
And before you think otherwise, I am not a supporter of whaling.
Anonymous 09:48, you probably only watched the video taken from on board the Shonan Maru 2.
Two other videos of the incident are available, one taken from the Bob Barker, and the other on board the Ady Gil itself. Both are available on YouTube. The Ady Gil video covers several minutes prior to the collision, and filming continues right up until the impact. You can see the Ady Gil crew relaxing, and actually *hear* the engines being shut down. Suggesting that the crew of the Ady Gil *intentionally* got their vessel rammed by a ship several times larger and more massive than themselves is laughable. These men are not suicidal. Prone to dangerous stunts, perhaps, but not suicidal.
@15:38
Just a quick note, but bear in mind the sizes of the vessels. Larger ships (especially when laden) can need several miles of space to turn around, and even after a manoeuvre is started it can take a minute or two before the ship starts turning at all.
The Shonan Maru 2 is a little under 500 tonnes, and has a top speed of 10-12Kts. Believe it or not, slow speeds actually mean a ship needs longer to turn, so it's normal to bring the engines up to speed when turning to move more water over the rudder - so you can turn faster.
There's nothing inconsistent with that in the Maru's behaviour. The Andy Gil parked up in front of it, the Maru turned to starboard and started spooling its engines up to try and reduce it's turning circle, but didn't have enough distance to avoid the Gil.
Normally, you'd give larger ships like this a wide berth for exactly this reason. Even navy crews panic if their ships come within 300 metres of each other on a parallel course - there's no time to react if something goes wrong. You can't honestly believe a crew with as much experience as that of the Gil didn't know that.
@ Anonymous 13:25
By definition the Ady Gil did not ram the whalers, considering it was the Ady Gil that was rammed. The only matter of contention is if the Shonan Maru 2 *intentionally* rammed the Ady Gil, whether the Ady Gil intended to be rammed, or whether it was completely unintentional. I don't believe it was intentional, the Shonan Maru 2 captain and crew probably expected the Ady Gil to move out of the way. The Ady Gil crew, meanwhile, did not expect the Shonan Maru 2 to sail on what was basically a collision course while the Ady Gil's engines were off and they were not manoeuvring.
It is unsurprising that the Ady Gil's engines powered up at the last moment - they would have been making a last ditch effort to evade when they realised the Shonan Maru 2 was bearing right down on top of them. It is possible that forward acceleration was applied at the last second, it wouldn't be surprising if the person at the helm panicked under the circumstances and fumbled the throttle before hauling ass out of the cockpit. But regardless, suggesting that they intentionally wanted the boat to be rammed is still ludicrous.
The Ady Gil's open deck area is quite small. It is the only place they could possibly relax in the open air, and it is quite obvious that that is exactly what they were doing. Claiming that the only reason they were there was because they intended to have the front of their boat rammed is a baseless conspiracy theory. People who claim that Obama isn't a US citizen would like to hear from you.
You seem to accept that the Ady Gil was indeed not travelling under power until moments before the impact. The Shonan Maru 2 was some distance away when the Ady Gil's engines were shut down with plenty of sea room between the two. By extension then, you must accept that it was the Shonan Maru 2 that failed to properly steer clear of a drifting vessel. Even without the apparent last-second acceleration, it seems as though the Shonan Maru 2 would still have clipped the bow of the Ady Gil.
Both parties were at fault to some degree, and neither party intended for the collision to occur.
if by relaxing you mean purposely sitting in the safest spot considering they were planning to ram the whalers, then yeah.
also, i suggest you watch the videos again. in both the video from the whalers and the one from the bob barker, you can very clearly see ady gil power it's engines and lunge forward at the last minute. with the video from the ady gil, yes, it sounds like they turned off the engine while waiting for the whalers, HOWEVER, you can also clearly hear the engines turn back on before impact which confirms the visual evidence from both the other videos that the ady gil rammed the whalers.
I agree with your assessment, up until the last sentence.
That's just not likely to happen on this site, or society in general.
True Tex. Truly unbiased people are an extremely rare breed, especially on the Internet, and exponentially so for Anonymous.
I also suffer from it; ironically as proven by my final statement. But I do try and avoid it.
Although holding major eco-friendly views (destroying the planet we rely on for survival is stupid), I prefer indisputable scientific evidence over internal bias.
If the international scientific community were to declare a consensus that harvesting minke whales was environmentally sustainable, and the IWC was to allow a commercial fishing quota, I would have no major objection to the whaling activities in the Southern Ocean.
But it needs to be done honestly and responsibly.
Bethune is a bigot. He clearly doesn't care about the rules or hold himself to any standard. Just off the power tripping fool and be done with it.
cant wait till this man get anally rape by a sperm whale and die... it wud make great story :)
I would agree with the one poster above 'we will never see this guy again'. He has to now be asking himself very loudly and talking out loud 'What was I thinking?' and is probably moaning and rocking back and forth in his 'cell' beating his head on the wall every time.
This would be a PERFECT time to execute the terrorist, and what I mean execute I mean throw him off the middle of the ocean without his gear (I prefer slitting throats with knives but oh well..). That'll show the Green party.
PEACE THROUGH POWER!!
KANE LIVES!
The whalers should have just thrown that douchebag overboard before going back to Japan. I hope that guy pays back the whalers for the food they gave him.
Good idea, and then we may enjoy a REAL WAR !!!
It's impossible to tell the winner in an underwater pissing contest.
Sankaku trolls.
Only like 95% of them are trolls!
Fucking aussie monkeys...
well, being a bit eco is ice, but sea shepard and it's followers... i share the opinion of them being pirates. This makes me think of something cool: why don't we send them money in the name of a "private whaling company" as a thank to get rid of competitors... wonder what those guys would say^^
Money is probably one of if not the main reason they're doing this, you know. A lot of people of varying wealth want to do something for the environment, but while there are countless different (and more legitimate) organizations out there, these sorts of grand, flashy tactics garner attention.
Oh! And murdering innocent, defenceless pussycats!
Feral cats, defenceless. Yeah no. Troll elsewhere.
give them life with out parole to those hippies!
send them to gbay, they'll meet bigbob and have some cockmeet sandwich for breakfast
He shouldn't have been on that ship in the first place.
so:ban loli,insult dfc,slaughter million of kitten,and save criminal?
.....
we found the new enemy of humanity sir!
save us america! (or whoever can bomb their gov!)
hey its the fault of those stupid japs lolololol not his
STOP KILLING NEKOS!
You do know "cats" is both shorter and gets the message across without making you look stupid(er) right?
Agreed! But why are you still here? Quickly go teleport all the nekos in Australia to your place. :P
I'll try with my sexy confusioness!
Aww, unellmay02, you changes your avatar from Kuroko to Kinoshita. No more teleportation abilities. :( Can you utilize your trap power to stop them from killing the nekos?
frankly, Japan SHOULD release him. it makes for better PR for them.
perception-wise, it makes the Japanese government look like its merciful to a rabid moron eco-terrorist.
as opposed to some insidious draconian dark government cracking down on the truth!
the reality is a don't know why Brown is trying to free the guy.
HE WANTS TO BE ARRESTED.
he WANTS the image of a guy just trying to save the animals, but the cruel evil Japanese are going to unjustly throw him in jail for the rest of his life to get him out of the way so he can't interfere with their evil doings.
Brown is frankly screwing up Sea Shepard's performance.
release them so Australia can think they can do whatever the fuck they want?
the guy they caught is from NEW ZEALAND dipshit, you fail geography forever
Brown like all politicians is a coward who likes to pick easy shots. If Bethune is let go, then Brown can claim some credit. If Bethune is jailed, then Brown can beat Rudd over the head w/ that, and thereby buttress his moral reputation.
Remember: all politicians are campers.
You don't follow rules that were agreed upon, you have to face the consequences.
If Japan gives in they'll look weak. Weak little yellow monkeys.
I think the should've released him before the pressure is on, so they look benevolent. If they do it now, indeed they will just look weak, so no choice but open war against australia.. :)
Ignoring publicity, releasing a terrorist to allow him to do more harm?
thing is japan has given them back multiple people before. that is one reason they are not this time.
never mind, take him back, but before that let me write his name in my "notebook" 1st. just for the records.
Don't release them, Japan!
That's a good idea. Time to negotiate Japan. If they want their pirate lord, they have to free the lolis and cats first!
I support the idea !!
"Traitor!"
-DarkdaemonPK2
release them, fucking whales eaters
True, crime is crime.
ok fine I admit it! It's ME! I DID IT!
I'm Australian and I can safely say that most of us don't give a dam about these protestors. I for one see them as a nuisance and gives us bad rep, not accomplishing anything other than making relations worse.
On the otherhand, we're very sceptical about the 'scientific research' they are conducting from the hunted whales.
Who is to say they sell the left over's of the whales to the markets?
I can't read Jap, hence cannot criticise/scrutinize any of their journals and reported results from their research.
really hope the rest of the world aren't so blinded to forget that the rest of us (and majority) aren't faggots like this guy.
Fuck my country.
blitzfx: The whales aren't going to survive the research ordeal, so why throw away perfectly fine meat by discarding the carcasses into the sea? It will be devoured by something anyway, so why not make some profit from the leftovers?
By comparison, if my company is primarily producing ammonia by electrolysis of water, why should I not also sell the valuable byproduct of heavy water?
Lehs.
I get pissed off at these articles. -.- Why is it my country is making so much trouble over something so stupid? The Minke whales aren't even Near Threatened you fucking greens.
There's a million of them, and they're taking 700 a year. Should we started protecting the rock pigeons too? Fucking hell.
@ 20:37 Anon
If Minke whales need protecting, then maybe all those stray cats on Australian streets need protecting as well?
Japanese or American Weeboo's pretending to be Australian is the height of pathetic.
Sending him for proper piracy training in Somalia is the best!!! Now you get real guns.
this reminds me of the episode of South Park about the wailers
Because such a system is begging for exploitation.
Fuck all this whaling faggotry, this is all about Darkcockslizer.
I've got a secret denigrator as well. They're a fact of virtual life.
But I have fans too, so it usually evens out.
E-peen is serious business.
everyone seems to hate me ;_;
All right, wait a minute.
(It's kind of out of context but I can't fail to notice that I get one single thumbs down for each of my posts almost immediately after I post them.)
So who is it? Come on angry no lifer, it'll be easier for both of us if you just tell what's your problem.
Lol. Users are just registered anons
You deserve the thumbs down.
Not that I do it.
Poor anon *pat pat*, it'll be ok.
Lol, anon - 1 user - 0
Wusstralia, free our pussies (loli and cats) first before you demand for the release of your terrorist!
I thought they were called pier, I mean, they do love being docked from behind.
just like everyone french is named pierre?
Just call him Dick
Wait, is it Pete or Peter? o.O
Theyll release him because Japan doesnt want to get on the bad side of Australia being so close to their waters, Australia will crush the shit out of Japan's rent-a-cop level "military" if they decide they dont want Japanese vessels around them.
*ahem* Please get your facts right.... And maybe do some research on Australia's & Japan's Military.... If you do a little research you'll see that Japan's military is bigger than Australia's in military equipment (Subs, Aircrafts, ect.), troops, & military budget (Including money to pay another country to attack their enemies) Please correct me if I'm wrong people....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
Fuck wars.
ahh but who kicked the japanese army's ass with only 200 draftee's on the kokoda track? australia
also the australian army makes up for its lack of numbers with skill, plus the fact that only a moron would try to invade the country as it is designed to exterminate human life in the most painful ways imaginable
Likewise only morons would start wars between modern first-world countries nowadays.
@Anon 22:39
That was before the invention of laser guided bombs and state of the art satellite reconnaissance.
Plus neither Japan or Australia would benefit from another war starting up, as it would strain both country's economies too much.
Not to mention there are a shitload of things closer to Japan than Australia.
And that's what it comes down to. He committed an act of Piracy and should be treated as such. The Japanese are well within their rights in holding him for illegally boarding the ship.
The whalers shouldn't have been there in the first place.
do you not look at facts? They have the right to be there and have the papers for it. Whaling still goes on all around the world. majority of it is for scientific reasoning.
Anon vs Anon. Anon wins.
For whaling which supposedly goes on for "scientific reasons", there's an interesting amount of whale turning up on the Japanese menus...
The only reason a breeding program is EVER necessary is
A. To keep a constant population of an animal for yourself.
B. To manipulate genetics or keep them fairly constant
C. To keep from mistaking food animals for pets(for instance dogs bred for food in China)
Why anyone would think that whales should be bred is beyond me...
Just google it idiot, there's loads of research done on it. Some of it hinting that faster breeding whales (like minke) are taking up both food and space from the more indangered whales. Besides, until Japan agrees to stop whaling even for scientific purposes, they're doing nothing illegal.
They do a lot of research on whales. The IWC has allowed Japan to sell the researched whale meat off to restaurants. What are you complaining about?
there are around 1'000'000 minke whales, plenty to go around for everywhere. If it was up to me, I would say hunt more. They are obviously not in any risk of extinction
Well, unicef also support the Equality Now group, but we don't exactly agree with their policy, now do we?
I'm just saying that lots of leaders have ulterior motives in deciding something, and blind trust is really a silly thing to do in this sceptical age.
LOL fucking idiots who believe that whaling is for scientific purposes. Seriously, show me some proof instead of the Japanese media using that as some bullshit excuse to continue killing them. Yeah we kill cattle and sheep but they're bred for that, until Japan has its own Whale breeding program it can fuck off I say.