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Japan will dispatch a whaling fleet to the Antarctic on Tuesday after a one year suspension, the government said, defying international criticism and a UN legal ruling that the "research" expedition is a commercial hunt in disguise.
"The research ships will depart for new whale research in the Antarctic on December 1, 2015," the Fisheries Agency said Monday in a statement on its website.
Tokyo has for years come under intense global pressure to stop hunts that opponents decry as inhumane but that Japan says are an inherent part of its traditional culture.
The United Nations' top legal body judged last year that Japan's so-called scientific whaling activity in the Southern Ocean was a disguise for commercial hunts.
It's for scientific research. Tasty, tasty research.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Hairyfeet on Tuesday December 01 2015, @06:25AM
Sink the ship. Since they refuse to listen to the world community, and continue to attempt to extinct animals that belong to the world for their culinary desires? Make them fair game, tell every ship on the planet that Japanese whaling ships can be hunted with ZERO penalty.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 01 2015, @06:38AM
That's a proportional response to lawful whaling.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 01 2015, @09:33PM
It isn't lawful. That is the point. They are defying a lawful order they signed treaties to be bound by.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 01 2015, @06:47AM
So are Green"Peace" looking around to hire a submarine plus a few torpedoes? Seems their idea of little boats didn't work out too well in the past. Catamarans and dinghys vs a whaling ship? Are any Ruskies still in the ex Soviet hardware for hire business?
My tongue has run out of cheek to be in... :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 01 2015, @07:31AM
Even the butt cheek? Pervert.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday December 01 2015, @09:52AM
I'd say their little boats have worked remarkably well in the past. They've hindered whaling operations and saved whale lives.
Furthermore, the fact that we are even having this conversation is due in large part to the fact that Greenpeace's efforts have put whaling into the public consciousness and onto the international agenda.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by niceholejohnson on Tuesday December 01 2015, @01:13PM
whale lives
Who cares? Nobody, that's who.
Whales are insignificant, much like you.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday December 01 2015, @02:36PM
Cute. You get the dignity of a response because at least you aren't trolling under AC.
If nobody cares, why is it being reported by every major news organisation in world?
Or is it that when you say "nobody" you actually mean "not me", because in your sad little head you are the only person in the world who matters?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 01 2015, @02:52PM
You are the sad moron supporting greenpeace jihaddis. You and your buddies at greeenpeace and peta deserve to rot at the bottom of ocean.
(Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Tuesday December 01 2015, @11:45PM
That's all fine and dandy to say until a giant O'Neill cylinder piloted by space whales deploys a giant soccer ball-looking radome and wrecks your day!
(Score: 4, Funny) by bryan on Tuesday December 01 2015, @05:40PM
Personally, I'd recommend using a Klingon Bird of Prey [wikia.com].
(Score: 3, Informative) by hemocyanin on Tuesday December 01 2015, @05:04PM
Sea Shepherd has been doing the work. Greenpeace has refused to help Sea Shepherd in the past -- GP is mostly a marketing and fundraising group. Sea Shepherd is the one who goes out and tries to put a stop to things.
(Score: 1) by cngn on Tuesday December 01 2015, @09:15PM
Yep Sea Shepherd has been going it alone when it comes to action, I've been a long time supporter here in Australia. I send them atleast a 100AUD a month I'm going to double that now.
The time for talking to the whalers has ended years ago, it started out as a lie, scientific research my ass, now it's like the city that launches these boats thinks they are a law unto themselves.
Enough is enough
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Wednesday December 02 2015, @02:06PM
But Sea Shepard simply cannot stop the whaling, all they can do is slow it down. Considering how close to extinction these creatures are and how with each loss we creep ever closer to a point where there simply is not enough genetic diversity to sustain the species? The only rational choice is to sink the ships, otherwise future generations simply will never get to enjoy these creatures and our entire ecosystem could be irrevocably harmed.
Not to put too crude a point on it but the Japanese have proven time and time again they give ZERO fucks about international law or the risk of making creatures extinct (just look at how their restaurants responded to the news of the Blue Marlin being endangered by putting a large bounty for every Marlin brought in, almost like they get a perverse joy from eating one of the last of a species) and since there are millions of Japanese but only a few thousand or less when it comes to some of these whales species? We can afford to lose the Japanese on these ships a hell of a lot more than we can afford to lose the whales, so sink the ships.
Finally its a hell of a lot more economical to sink them than to try to merely harass them in the hopes of stopping them, after all you can strap a torpedo to damned near anything and as they have proven in the past Japanese whalers give zero fucks about ramming ships that get in their way. We tried talking, we tried being reasonable, they have made it clear they will not follow rule of law so what do we do when you have a criminal that will not follow the law? We use force, deadly force if necessary, to make them comply...sink the ship.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by isostatic on Tuesday December 01 2015, @10:25AM
Yes, Bomb Syria! Bomb Japan! Bomb Turkey!
Bomb bomb bomb, it always works well!
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday December 01 2015, @12:02PM
> Bomb bomb bomb, it always works well!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00y3gV0dJow [youtube.com]
Yes, that's Dr House.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 01 2015, @11:28AM
but the we would be just as bad, or worse, than muslims
breaking the moral event horizon there, friend
how about we just impound the ships and fine them?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 01 2015, @01:36PM
Fuck you and your green peace terrorists.