Greenies duel it out in the Southern Ocean

[Huan]

I just read this and thought it was quite amusing.http://www.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,13369,1676507,00.html?gusrc=rss
Although the Southern Ocean is no place to be messing about with this kind of stuff.

 

[Oldsarge]

With any luck, Ma Briney will have the last word on these egomaniacs. With friends like this, what whale needs enemies?

 

[Freediver81]

I'm support the Sea Sheperd approach (was considering volunteering a year ago!)
You have to hit the harpooning vessels where it hurts! When at sea, confront them, puclicity and non violent approaches should be kept for onland publicity projects and demonstrations!

Its a shame that they can't put away their differences and just cooperate! Each finger alone is weak, but when you clench them into a fist, they become powerful!!!

Said

 

[Rockbrother]

Earth First!

We will mine the other planets later.

 

[SurfnSpear]

I'm support the Sea Sheperd approach (was considering volunteering a year ago!)
You have to hit the harpooning vessels where it hurts! When at sea, confront them, puclicity and non violent approaches should be kept for onland publicity projects and demonstrations!
Said

How amusing.....a spearfisherman swapping spit with anti harpoon ecological guerilla's...I can see you sitting at their campfire now.....
"...Yeah and once there was this one massive fish...I lined up my spear and shot it before dragging it in....."
luckily you're a lawyer....you can build a great defence.:hmm

 

[Freediver81]

How amusing.....a spearfisherman swapping spit with anti harpoon ecological guerilla's...I can see you sitting at their campfire now.....
"...Yeah and once there was this one massive fish...I lined up my spear and shot it before dragging it in....."
luckily you're a lawyer....you can build a great defence.:hmm

There's a big difference between spearing a non endangered FISH that you intend to eat to harpooning whales! I never spearfished more than I could eat. Excuse me if I find your post to be lacking common sense!

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[Shadowkiller]

I think what he means is that SeaShepherd is staffed by lunatic greenies who consider any form of harm to an animal, by humans, murder.

Personally I find their moral standpoint that it is ok to deliberately endanger human lives by ramming (the SS vessels has a count of ships sunk on its bridge) is about as low as you can get. The sooner those people are arrested and tried for attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder the better.

I assure you Said, when they find out you are a spearo, they will consider you an evil ogre that must be stopped at all cost. Dont waste your time with them.

 

[SurfnSpear]

There's a big difference between spearing a non endangered FISH that you intend to eat to harpooning whales! I never spearfished more than I could eat. Excuse me if I find your post to be lacking common sense!

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Common sense would dictate that you clearly understand a statement before misguidedly striking back at someone who never implied they supported the Japanese stance....but then neither would I be even REMOTELY inclined to even brain fart an idea of joining the crew of some loose cannons on the high seas. A waterborne lynching mob!
....I can see it now....sitting round their campfire... "I never spearfished more than I could eat."
:head
P.S. Thanks for keeping the balance on this Shadowkiller.

 

[Shadowkiller]

....I can see it now....sitting round their campfire... "I never spearfished more than I could eat."

Lettuce isnt that hard to spear... its finding the ikijimi spot thats the problem...rofl

SeaShepherd = anti-conservationist. People with no clue about the real state of affairs, only seeking to alleviate existential guilt. Wheres the gene pool lifeguard when you need one?

 

[blumon]

I know the 'main road' where you live...what surfer or spearfisherman wants to go out from the beach thru' sh@%t to do what he loves to do? Look at 'Toti. B

 

[SurfnSpear]

I know the 'main road' where you live...what surfer or spearfisherman wants to go out from the beach thru' sh@%t to do what he loves to do? Look at 'Toti. B

Are you perhaps a surveyor of sewers? Try keep on the topic and send any abstract observations to me via a PM because you have not given very much here on what point you are trying to make with me???

 

[blumon]

Surf 'n Spear - my apologies for an inappropriate post. There are a lot of highly charged positions flying thru' cyberspace and on this forum - what I hoped would happen - that there would be dialogue on the issue of our environment - seems rather to be a clash of emotions. I am guilty too of this and was off-base on that post.

It is an accepted fact that only 1% of the people living on the planet are even remotely active in any environmental issue - it appears that the DB group is no exception...and that suprises me.

On another note - I spent a lot of my youth along the main road where you live and on a recent trip back there was shocked by the deterioration of the environment where I grew up. Yes I have surveyed sewage outfalls and industrial dump-pipes that spew into our rivers and freshwater sources and the picture is horrible. Surfers are amongst the most aware groups of oceanmen and know full-well just how this affects them and their sport - hence we have "Surfrider Foundation" etc.

What will it take to get before folks respond to the 'wake-up call'? Do we wait until there's not enough freshwater to go around and we end up fighting wars over the supply of water? At the rate we are going, what legacy are we going to leave for our kids? If people could visualize their bodies as 70% water and then look at the picture of this planet - also 70% water - and recognize it as a living and breathing entity with all of creation as part of the picture needed to stay healthy...why are we allowing this blatant violation of our Earth and for us particularly, Mother Ocean??

In the case of the whales down in the Southern Ocean you have one group of profiteers using "Research" as an excuse to remove an entire population of defensless creatures from the face of the planet. That to me is just plain wrong...and say what you will about Sea Shepherd and their crew, but they are doing what they believe is right - they are the ONLY ones with the balls to go down there and challenge the self-proclaimed right of the Japanese to research whale(meat). They (the Japanese) have buggered up their environment and are systematically going around the world screwing everyone else. "Research"?

Thats all I've got - I'm off tonite into the Gulf of Mexico to help scientists find answers to questions that might benefit all of the human race. It's all I can do for now.

Again, my apologies for the garbled post!
B

 

[Huan]

should I? nah! Oh wait I will say it.

self-proclaimed right of the Japanese to research whale(meat).

It is not self proclaimed it is under the auspices of the InternationalWhaling Commission.

Thats all I've got - I'm off tonite into the Gulf of Mexico to help scientists find answers to questions that might benefit all of the human race. It's all I can do for now.

I am glad we have at least one Hero on DB