Whale Wars??

[Wildcard Ky]

Does/Has anyone watched it? If so, what do you think?

I'm kind of torn over this one. I oppose whaling, but I think Paul Watson is pushing the lines of being an eco terrorist.

He boards foreign vessels which is legally an act of piracy. He has rammed ships.

What's your opinion??

 

[Zeb_Carter]

He's no better than those Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa! He should be arrested and put behind bars, his boat confiscated and his crew fined.

On the other hand the Japanese are in violation of International law and everyone is too chicken to call them on it. They too should be arrested and put behind bars.

Without some laws in this world there would be anarchy, which I'm not really opposed too but, to protect those who can't protect themselves we need a few laws.

 

[JagFarlane]

I'm torn over it as well.
I support protecting whales, particularly the ones considered endangered and yet still gone after by the whalers.
However, I don't support a lot of the tactics that these guys use. Ramming ships, or placing yourself in a position where the other ship is almost guaranteed to ram you is over the top. A lot of the sailors on board the other ships are doing it to feed their families, and yet their lives are placed in danger by someone else. However, its sadly not a surprising tactic, Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior would do the same thing to naval warships, and in the end, caused many minor to career ending injuries. Why do they see this as an ok tactic? Last night it was stated "Whales are more important than humans."
Just wish there was a better way...

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I think he's trying for martyrdom, myself. He's hoping that some whaling captain get fed right up to here, rams the fool's boat and sink it, drowning all on board. The international community will rise up in wrath and send massive navies to end all whaling. No more unreasonable a daydream than twenty-one virgins . . .

 

[Handley_Page]

I think he's trying for martyrdom, myself. He's hoping that some whaling captain get fed right up to here, rams the fool's boat and sink it, drowning all on board. The international community will rise up in wrath and send massive navies to end all whaling. No more unreasonable a daydream than twenty-one virgins . . .

only 21 ?.
I thought it was 72. . . . . .

 

[jomar]

I saw a commercial for it. Might as well make a "show" where PETA members protest weekly and whoever gets the biggest fines wins the seasons competition.

Seems to me it's really a propagandafest.

 

[Bazzz]

Kind of a band of donkeys

I, like most everyone else here, think that killing whales is wrong. Whatever the whaling industry is getting from a whale they can probably manufacture on land by now.

Still I believe that the captain of the eco ship and some of those around him are mutants. There are two bespectaled guys on the vessel. The older one is a spazz and the younger one while a more mellow human seems like the kind of person that might get in your face for disagreeing with him on something as simple as what color the sky is. It's this self rightous and elitist attitude that directs these nuts to do all sorts of moronic things on the water. I have done some fairly extensive ocean sailboat racing in my day and my conclusion after watching some of the on water antics down in a place like Antartica is that it's amazing no one has been killed yet.

I do find the show somewhat entertaining though.