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Skriven 2010-02-24 10:52:29 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
   Kommentar till text 5193 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
Ärende: Re: The Dubai Connection
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ml>RB> That naturally doesn't extend to intentional bombing, as in the
ml>RB> Rainbow Warrior case - although I wouldn't have objected to the
ml>RB> ship being unintentionally rammed and sunk after getting in the way
ml>RB> of others going about their business - as recently happened to
ml>RB> another Greenpeace ship trying to hinder Japanese ships.
 
ml> which greenpeace ship was that? when did it happen?
 
It happened to a vessel of the "Sea Sheperd" organisation, not Greenpeace.
 
Sea Sheperd was created by a guy called Paul Watson. He was among the original
12 that made the first trip to Amchitka on the vessel "Phyllis Cormack".
 
Paul Watson does not believe in peaceful non-violent campaigning and wanted
Greenpeace to become violent, sinking whaling boats, sinking sealers, etc...
real environmental terrorism.
 
When that didn't happen, he left the organisation and created "Sea Sheperd" and
went the violent road. He poses frequently in a full captain's uniform with all
the gold stripes but is officially not certified.
 
He has several sinkings to his credit in the meantime and seems only committed
to violent action in the mistaken belief that "the public" will follow him up
on that. He's not into policy work, nor into lobbying which eventually is the
only way to change things.
 
In this particular event Sea Sheperd was harassing a Japanese whale-hunter with
an oversized supercharged speedboad in Antarctic waters dodging in front of the
bow of the whaler. If ever you saw the video from that, you can only conclude
that the person driving it was braindead. So at one moment in pursuit of a
whale the speedboat from Sea Sheperd crossed in front of the bow to make it
impossible for the gunner to fire the harpoon and did so in blatant disregard
of maritime procedures re/ the right of way (the video is obvious). At that
moment the engines of the speedboat cut and the whale-hunter rammed it thereby
destroying it. The speedboat was sinking and in the best maritime tradition the
Japanese broke-off the hunt and saved the 3 crew which were in peril in their
sinking speedboat.
 
Instead of saying "Thank you for saving those 3 people" Sea Sheperd issued a
statement saying "with our heroics we saved a whale".
 
BTW, this episode occured over a month ago ... not last week. 
 
 \%/@rd

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