Not really, no. The research whaling doesn’t really need to be documented; it’s not a secret. And closing the loophole would probably just result in increased whaling, since the Japanese wouldn’t feel the need to pretend anymore and would just leave the IWC.
If we go by the evidence of the TV show, Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherds (a stunning name for a folk-band) are a bunch of emo whiners who can barely figure out how to point the boat in the right direction. To combine with another show; I would love to see them run one storm in the vast Bering Sea - I think that the Coasties would be showing it at holiday parties for the next decade.
I can’t stop them – true that, but they don’t need my help to be visibly ineffective. These folks are the Special Olympians of the eco-activist movement. That’s why Paul Watson is irritating; not because he “speaks the truth” or “fights the good fight” but because he is demonstrably incompetent and he is wasting money/resources that a smarter person would be able to use.
On the other hand, he does seem good at self-promotion and separating fools from their money. You did say that you donated to his cause, right? Do you really think you are getting value for your money?
I don’t know anything about this show but I don’t understand how there can be a reality show about something like this. Isn’t it a violation of laws to fuck with a company’s vessels and equipment?
I find this confusing. You are giving money to the SS to be spent wandering about on the Pakifik Okean pestering people? Should not this money be spent on helping the homeless? Isn’t complaining about the Japanese eating whales one of those things that [post=11447485]white[/post] people like to do? Hey, check it out, it is!
I have taken to calling it Fail Wars
Sea Shepherds, Rainbow Warriors and other gangs of Hippy-Dippies spending vast amounts of money raised from gullible saps who think they do some good.
Glad to see them exposed as the charlatans they appear to be to me.
In my mind they are fakes and do nothing but aggrandize themselves and their phony agenda.
“Hippie” is spelled “hippie”.
The contact high though, would be AWESOME, DUDE!
Let’s make a musical. The hippies floating above the forest primeval, in their hot air balloons, helplessly floating away from where they want to go (because they didn’t check the wind direction), and the lumberjacks shopping and eating buttered scones. One side singing “neun und neunzig luft balloon”, and the other side (of course) singing the lumberjack song.
Do the panhandlers know you are spending THEIR money on this?
I would prefer they just leave the whalers alone.
I think most of the young and inexperience crew members have their heart in the right place, but few of them have the training they should have to be on a boat so far out in the middle of nowhere and that captain plus the other senior members don’t provide any sort of leadership. I remember one episode where a young woman who spent time in the US Navy wanted to apply some of the procedures she learned in the navy to make the Steve Irwin more efficient. One of the hippie guys, who I think was the the first mate, dismissed what she had to say because he didn’t like the military. But I bet if you took a bunch of navy men and women and stuck them on a small, unarmed boat, they could have prevented the whalers from killing a whale.
Well, see, that’s the trouble with your fucking hippies! Without whaling, were would you get your whalebone corset stays, and ambergris? Ha! You’d have to find something else to blubber about then, wouldn’t you!
Did you just accuse me of embezzling money from the Panhandlers’ Union? I want you to be very clear when you answer this.
Well if the ‘First mate’ is the best war-leader than could find, I kinda doubt how efficient you could make that crew. Kinda like Martin and Ralph following Milhouse into battle. Peak Effectiveness just isn’t going to be that high.
My guess: Not embezzlement, just a poor choice of how the money is used.
Awww.
Your a wise man wise to the ways of this world and how the system really works…as you tell us so often…take it how you want.
A three hour toouurr
A threeeee hour tooouuuurrr
Heh. I am one of these moderate liberals of which you speak. Near every word of Scylla’s post rang true. No argument here really, just a single data point to suggest that what you think these people are accomplishing by way of PR might not be happening.
You appear to have accused me of taking funds from the Ottawa Panhandlers’ Union, an organization in which I am on public record as being spokesperson, and giving it to the Sea Shepherds. If I did this, I would be in commission of a criminal act. You appear, to me, to be accusing me on a public forum of a criminal act. When I requested that you make it clear whether or not you have accused me of embezzling funds from the OPU, your response is, and I quote, “take it how you want.”
I’m going to repeat my request. Please state whether or not you’re accusing me of embezzling funds from the Ottawa Panhandlers’ Union.