One reader has chastised me for frequently being negative about veganism, and noted that I seem to have a bad attitude about both Sea Shepherd (the notorious eco-terrorists of the South Pacific) and various other good causes. She or he writes: "you probably have NO sympathy for the Green Peace activists currently being held under APPALLING conditions in Russia either, do you?"
Well, the dingbat who wrote that is right.
No frikkin' sympathy whatsoever.
Gulag their green asses.
However, not wanting to lose anymore readers, no matter how drippy and wussily fruitcake they may be -- they are all infinitely precious to me, especially in this age of decreasing literacy and logic -- it might behoove me to cater to their sensitivities.
"YOU PROBABLY HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR THE GREEN PEACE ACTIVISTS BEING HELD UNDER APPALLING CONDITIONS"
Oh, the poor babies. At least they're eating well. Russian food, though heavy at times, is on the whole a wonderful and educational gustatory experience. Not only caviar, smetana, and blinis, but Chicken Kiev, many smoked fishes (including whale), refined cabbage dishes, fried appetizers, and sundry savoury meat stews: elk, bear, reindeer, otter, mink, wild boar, and commissar.
[They no longer do serf and turf, by the way.]
And the good news is that all of these can be adapted to tofu.
I'm sure the Kremlin's jailers are considerately providing a wholesome all-vegetarian diet to the imprisoned ecomaniacs. Why, they're probably in better condition than they've ever been! All lean muscle.
Plus plenty of heart-healthy aerobic exercise.
And language classes!
As for Vegan Food, it isn't that I in principle disapprove. It's just that the combination of a sanctimonious holier than thou attitude with appallingly miserable and apathetic cooking usually leaves me infuriated.
Capsule reviews of Vegan and Vegetarian restaurants:
VENUS RESTAURANT
Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley.
Not all Vegan, not all edible. Sometimes bland and disappointing.
On the whole, a typical Berkeley experience that left the diner feeling vaguely insulted, like not having been up to the high standards of a West Oakland streetwalker. Will not go a third time.
HERBIVORE
Divisadero Street, San Francisco.
An excess of garlic does not make up for a lack of taste. Bland white people should not do anything Latino or Asian. I hate Honky burritos.
ANANDA FUARA
Market Street, San Francisco.
Stringy white chicks in saris. Over-priced yoghurt and dal. Attitude.
Having worked for many years in an Indian restaurant, my patience with the artistic and meaningful element is at an all-time low.
LOVING HUT
Stockton Street at Vallejo, San Francisco.
Best fake charsiu ever. Unbelievable! Service is quite good too. The only drawback is that one of the people at the table will have a view of happy happy joy joy cult videos at all times on the big screen teevee, unless their sneeringly dispassionate cult leader is giving an endless lecture in Mandarin.
I do NOT need to see documentaries about sick-in-the-head Eurotrash at some ashram or Buddhist retreat in Amsterdam being all spiritual while I'm eating fabulous fake meat.
Loved the place, but sunglasses are required.
Or blinkers; whatever works.
No MSG.
JUDAHLICIOUS
Judah Street, San Francisco.
Oh frick, be real. Precious, hip, and insufferable. Apathetic service, and more vicious white folks burritos. Too much juice gives you gas.
THE PLANT CAFÉ ORGANIC
Steiner Street, San Francisco.
Overpriced, unimaginative, and slow. And there's that damned saintly hip attitude again. Perhaps I look too much like a decent middle-aged white guy to be treated nicely.
I'm beginning to hate veggie burgers and juice.
GREENS RESTAURANT
Fort Mason, Building A, San Francisco.
Best location and best service of the lot. The food is excellent, and, remarkably for a place that does vegetarian stuff, it has soul. A bit expensive, indeed, but this is the place to take your rancher uncle and his ghastly wife Mabel when they visit; they'll waddle out happy as clams, and with a different opinion of San Francisco than they had.
Probably also a splendid place for a date.
But only if she likes food.
ARIZMENDI BAKERY
Mission Street, San Francisco.
Great pastries, great breads, and dynamite pizza! Even their muffins are excellent, and I hate muffins. Arizmendi Bakery is a class act, and a city treasure.
Worth hiking over to Mission for.
FINAL NOTE: All of the places I listed, except Greens Restaurant and Arizmendi Bakery, would benefit from the serious inclusion of bacon in everything, and the wan drips who work there would be happier too.
Greens and Arizmendi are doing something right.
Good places. Great food.
Wonderful.
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Saturday, October 26, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
SEA SHEPHERD PIRATES
According to judge Alex Kozinski of the United States court of appeals for the ninth circuit, the Sea Shepherd crew are pirates.
[Source: http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2013/02/25/1235266.pdf. Ref: Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington; opinion; No. 12-35266 D.C. No. 2:11-cv-02043-RAJ.]
I realize that many Dutchmen, New Zealanders, andKangaroo-buggering cretins, pardon, "Australians" may disagree with that.
Their objections are more than likely based on faulty thinking, insufferable self-righteousness, sanctimony, and a typical racist "we are better than that bunch" ideology.
Oh buggery well, and too bad.
Get stuffed.
Quote: "When you ram ships, hurl glass containers of acid, drag metal-reinforced ropes in the water to damage propellers and rudders, launch smoke bombs and flares with hooks; and point high-powered lasers at other ships, you are, without a doubt, a pirate."
End quote.
Quote: "The activities that Cetacean [the Japanese whalers] alleges Sea Shepherd has engaged in are clear instances of violent acts for private ends, the very embodiment of piracy."
End quote.
[Quote source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21589352.]
This blogger has long maintained that if the Japanese were to blast those violent activists to kingdom-come, they would be well within their rights, AND in accord with international laws against piracy. It is to their credit that they so far have not sank the Sea Shepherd, nor strung the Dutch, New Zealander, and Australian criminals up from the yard arm. Perhaps it's because modern ships don't actually have yard arms.
Quote: "It is for Australia, not Sea Shepherd, to police Australia's court orders."
End quote.
If you want to stop Japanese whaling, go to court. Request that your elected representatives stop violating kangaroos. Or, if you are in the Netherlands or New Zealand, get them to stop violating other beasts.
Force them to take action.
Now, can we lock up that bunch of nauseating racist holier-than-thou twats who have been taking the law into their own hands, and sue Paul Watson for funding criminal acts?
By the way, feel free to disagree with this post. If I even let your comments through, it might very well be because I wish to rip your argument to shreds, or highlight what an utter pustule you are. Normally I'm all for freedom of speech, but I'm somewhat bilious at present.
Comments by Dutch-speakers are automatically suspect.
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[Source: http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2013/02/25/1235266.pdf. Ref: Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington; opinion; No. 12-35266 D.C. No. 2:11-cv-02043-RAJ.]
I realize that many Dutchmen, New Zealanders, and
Oh buggery well, and too bad.
Get stuffed.
Quote: "When you ram ships, hurl glass containers of acid, drag metal-reinforced ropes in the water to damage propellers and rudders, launch smoke bombs and flares with hooks; and point high-powered lasers at other ships, you are, without a doubt, a pirate."
End quote.
Quote: "The activities that Cetacean [the Japanese whalers] alleges Sea Shepherd has engaged in are clear instances of violent acts for private ends, the very embodiment of piracy."
End quote.
[Quote source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21589352.]
This blogger has long maintained that if the Japanese were to blast those violent activists to kingdom-come, they would be well within their rights, AND in accord with international laws against piracy. It is to their credit that they so far have not sank the Sea Shepherd, nor strung the Dutch, New Zealander, and Australian criminals up from the yard arm. Perhaps it's because modern ships don't actually have yard arms.
Quote: "It is for Australia, not Sea Shepherd, to police Australia's court orders."
End quote.
If you want to stop Japanese whaling, go to court. Request that your elected representatives stop violating kangaroos. Or, if you are in the Netherlands or New Zealand, get them to stop violating other beasts.
Force them to take action.
Now, can we lock up that bunch of nauseating racist holier-than-thou twats who have been taking the law into their own hands, and sue Paul Watson for funding criminal acts?
By the way, feel free to disagree with this post. If I even let your comments through, it might very well be because I wish to rip your argument to shreds, or highlight what an utter pustule you are. Normally I'm all for freedom of speech, but I'm somewhat bilious at present.
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
ARE AUSTRALIANS DUMBER THAN KANGAROOS?
Yes, I know it’s an odd question. Reason I need to ask is that someone, presumably from Australia, placed a comment underneath one of my posts overnight.
I shan’t go into the reasons I have for suspecting that he is from Australia – I don’t want a whole bunch of wallaby-humpers or smelly croc-wrestlers to come looking for me while they're drunk on Fosters, the poor dears might drown trying to swim here from there – but I will share his amazing eloquence with you.
“Are you an idiot? the ady gill was off, the have just waved goodbye to the Bob Barker and they were waiting for more fuel. THE VESSEL WAS NOT IN A "MANUVERABLE" POSITION! however, the shonan maru no. 2 was, and when you watch the footage, you can see that the shonan took a wide turnand headed in the way that the ady was obviously floating cause that was the way the oceans waves were carrying it. you are a dumb prick. go get some actual facts instead of listening to your chinky nip friends.”
[This comment string under this post from nearly a year ago.]
"Chinky nip friends"
Other than that Haley (the commenter) doesn't understand complex subjects like capitalization, punctuation, and spelling, you will note one other thing: his use of the term " chinky nip".
"Chinky nip friends"
Is that what you kangaroo-buggering gobshytes in Aussie-land call them, Haley?
Well, that's not surprising, you lot are remarkably ignorant and brutish, seeing as ninety percent of you are the incestuous offspring of inbred syphilitic louts transported for penetrating farm-yard animals and exposing yourselves in public, eh?
"Chinky nip friends"
Yeah, I know. Generalization, most unfair.
Probably not all Australians are sodden-drunk bestialists and spaghetti-sandwich eaters. Still, that rather is the image they have, so there must be plenty of that type stumbling around Sydney and Melbourne. The rest have my sympathy.
It can't be easy living with sub-literates like Haley.
Especially sub-literates that habitually drink too much and chunder down their fronts.
"Chinky nip friends"
How are you lot getting along with the rest of the world nowadays?
Perhaps you need some more Fosters Laaaaguh, and another shrimp on the baaahbi? Vegemite?
It might keep you from maltreating the abos, while there's anybody watching.
Say 'hi' to Bruce for me.
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I shan’t go into the reasons I have for suspecting that he is from Australia – I don’t want a whole bunch of wallaby-humpers or smelly croc-wrestlers to come looking for me while they're drunk on Fosters, the poor dears might drown trying to swim here from there – but I will share his amazing eloquence with you.
“Are you an idiot? the ady gill was off, the have just waved goodbye to the Bob Barker and they were waiting for more fuel. THE VESSEL WAS NOT IN A "MANUVERABLE" POSITION! however, the shonan maru no. 2 was, and when you watch the footage, you can see that the shonan took a wide turnand headed in the way that the ady was obviously floating cause that was the way the oceans waves were carrying it. you are a dumb prick. go get some actual facts instead of listening to your chinky nip friends.”
[This comment string under this post from nearly a year ago.]
"Chinky nip friends"
Other than that Haley (the commenter) doesn't understand complex subjects like capitalization, punctuation, and spelling, you will note one other thing: his use of the term " chinky nip".
"Chinky nip friends"
Is that what you kangaroo-buggering gobshytes in Aussie-land call them, Haley?
Well, that's not surprising, you lot are remarkably ignorant and brutish, seeing as ninety percent of you are the incestuous offspring of inbred syphilitic louts transported for penetrating farm-yard animals and exposing yourselves in public, eh?
"Chinky nip friends"
Yeah, I know. Generalization, most unfair.
Probably not all Australians are sodden-drunk bestialists and spaghetti-sandwich eaters. Still, that rather is the image they have, so there must be plenty of that type stumbling around Sydney and Melbourne. The rest have my sympathy.
It can't be easy living with sub-literates like Haley.
Especially sub-literates that habitually drink too much and chunder down their fronts.
"Chinky nip friends"
How are you lot getting along with the rest of the world nowadays?
Perhaps you need some more Fosters Laaaaguh, and another shrimp on the baaahbi? Vegemite?
It might keep you from maltreating the abos, while there's anybody watching.
Say 'hi' to Bruce for me.
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Thursday, October 07, 2010
PIRATES SANK OWN SHIP
Remember last January when I waxed spiteful about pretentious bourgeois-leite and their hypocritical damn'-near racist venom directed at the Japanese?
Quote:
Frankly, I think that whaling in this day and age is misguided, to say the least. It would probably be best if it ceased entirely.
But I take exception to a bunch of know-it-all middle-class white folks imposing their view on the rest of the world through bully-boy tactics, and furthermore doing it in ways which are calculated to insult, demean, and infuriate other cultures.
End quote.
[Original post: http://atthebackofthehill.blogspot.com/2010/01/sea-shepherd-terrorists-attack-japanese.html ]
Again, I clarify that I am not in favour of whaling. But even less, by a very wide margin, am I inclined favourably toward dipwads from Hobbit-Land (and one Kaaskop) who are just about rancid with their own self-righteousness.
["Five criminals from New Zealand and one Dutchman ..... "]
Turns out the New-Zealanders gave what they got coming to them themselves.
FROM THE BBC:
An estranged former member of direct action anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd alleges it ordered its own boat to be scuttled to win public sympathy.
Peter Bethune was captain of the hi-tech Ady Gil when its bow was shorn off in a collision with a Japanese whaler it was shadowing in January.
It sank two days later, but Mr Bethune now alleges he was ordered to scuttle it by Sea Shepherd head Paul Watson.
READ MORE HERE: Sea Shepherd 'sank its own anti-whaling boat'
What we're really talking about here is a bunch of self-important damn spoiled middle-class pretendeurs in an expensive toy, bought for them by a rich meddlesome Californian sugar-daddy. They're lucky they didn't drown.
"Mr Watson now reportedly says Mr Bethune was expelled from Sea Shepherd in October after it discovered the New Zealander had given false information to Japanese authorities about Mr Watson in exchange for leniency."[SOURCE: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11490958 ]
The maritime adventurism that they engage in is completely illegal. The posse mentality, which drives them to act as judge, jury, and executioner entirely on their own authority, is exactly equivalent to a lynch mob, an Al Qaeda cell, or the U.S. administration that got us involved in the Iraq war.
That they are allegedly liberal humanists does not justify their taking unilateral action and committing illegal acts.
The Sea Shepherd organization is on extremely thin ice, whereas the Japanese 'research' vessels are legally in the right. Even in Australia and New Zealand.
And let's not forget that neither Australia nor New Zealand are stellar examples of civilization. They should be no means think themselves entitled to tell the rest of us what to do. It is absurd.
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Quote:
Frankly, I think that whaling in this day and age is misguided, to say the least. It would probably be best if it ceased entirely.
But I take exception to a bunch of know-it-all middle-class white folks imposing their view on the rest of the world through bully-boy tactics, and furthermore doing it in ways which are calculated to insult, demean, and infuriate other cultures.
End quote.
[Original post: http://atthebackofthehill.blogspot.com/2010/01/sea-shepherd-terrorists-attack-japanese.html ]
Again, I clarify that I am not in favour of whaling. But even less, by a very wide margin, am I inclined favourably toward dipwads from Hobbit-Land (and one Kaaskop) who are just about rancid with their own self-righteousness.
["Five criminals from New Zealand and one Dutchman ..... "]
Turns out the New-Zealanders gave what they got coming to them themselves.
FROM THE BBC:
An estranged former member of direct action anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd alleges it ordered its own boat to be scuttled to win public sympathy.
Peter Bethune was captain of the hi-tech Ady Gil when its bow was shorn off in a collision with a Japanese whaler it was shadowing in January.
It sank two days later, but Mr Bethune now alleges he was ordered to scuttle it by Sea Shepherd head Paul Watson.
READ MORE HERE: Sea Shepherd 'sank its own anti-whaling boat'
What we're really talking about here is a bunch of self-important damn spoiled middle-class pretendeurs in an expensive toy, bought for them by a rich meddlesome Californian sugar-daddy. They're lucky they didn't drown.
"Mr Watson now reportedly says Mr Bethune was expelled from Sea Shepherd in October after it discovered the New Zealander had given false information to Japanese authorities about Mr Watson in exchange for leniency."[SOURCE: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11490958 ]
The maritime adventurism that they engage in is completely illegal. The posse mentality, which drives them to act as judge, jury, and executioner entirely on their own authority, is exactly equivalent to a lynch mob, an Al Qaeda cell, or the U.S. administration that got us involved in the Iraq war.
That they are allegedly liberal humanists does not justify their taking unilateral action and committing illegal acts.
The Sea Shepherd organization is on extremely thin ice, whereas the Japanese 'research' vessels are legally in the right. Even in Australia and New Zealand.
And let's not forget that neither Australia nor New Zealand are stellar examples of civilization. They should be no means think themselves entitled to tell the rest of us what to do. It is absurd.
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Friday, January 08, 2010
WINE. FOOD. AND A PLAGUE OF KANGAROOS.
Courtesy of an anonymous commenter underneath the post about Sea Shepherd nutballs steering their pimped-out super hero boat too close to pissed-off Japanese whalers and subsequently getting hoist by their own petard, I must share a recipe.
[The comment is in this comment string:https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17704096&postID=4823058973210308327&isPopup=true
Underneath this post:http://atthebackofthehill.blogspot.com/2010/01/sea-shepherd-terrorists-attack-japanese.html
It is comment no. 72, occurring just before Kishan opined that Australians are degenerates who have sex with kangaroos (that being comment no. 73).]
What prompted the recipe was Vicious Kitty writing:
"I too fervently wish to sink my teeth into a nice whale steak. Or perhaps a slaughtered Australian. Even though they require way too much HP Sauce."
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Whereupon an anonymous reader said:
"Whale. Tastes like chicken. And almost as good as spotted owl."
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Which spurred on this contribution from yet another anonymous:
And almost as good as spotted owl.
Potted Spotted Owl.
It is delishus!
Skin, paunch and wash the owl.
Cut it into pieces, dredge with flour and fry in butter.
Put the pieces of fried owl, an onion stuck with six cloves, a lemon peeled and cut in half, and generous pinches salt, pepper and cayenne into a pot. Cover completely with good brown gravy.
Cover the pot well, put it up to the rim into a saucepan of boiling water.
Stew until the owl is quite tender - probably about four hours.
When nearly done, pour in a generous dash of port wine.
Serve with red currant jelly - NOT that ghastly red muck, what's it called, you know, the frightfull sour crap Americans normally serve with roast turkey. That noxious stuff made from some wild Indian bog berry. Inedible!
Good owl deserves red currant jelly!
Seasonable from September to the end of February.
Bon appetitt!
[End quote]
CULINARY CURIOSITY
I've eaten zebra, snake, alligator, fruitbat, and wildebeest.
I have never had spotted owl. Or whale meat.
Wherefore I bow to the superior knowledge of my readers.
And express the wish that they ask me over for dinner one of these days.
Looking at my calendar, I note that I am free for most of January.
And February.
And March, except for the last two days. Free again from the third week of April through the rest of Spring.
All Summer.
And most of Fall.
I'll bring the wine. What goes well with whale?
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[The comment is in this comment string:https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17704096&postID=4823058973210308327&isPopup=true
Underneath this post:http://atthebackofthehill.blogspot.com/2010/01/sea-shepherd-terrorists-attack-japanese.html
It is comment no. 72, occurring just before Kishan opined that Australians are degenerates who have sex with kangaroos (that being comment no. 73).]
What prompted the recipe was Vicious Kitty writing:
"I too fervently wish to sink my teeth into a nice whale steak. Or perhaps a slaughtered Australian. Even though they require way too much HP Sauce."
---
Whereupon an anonymous reader said:
"Whale. Tastes like chicken. And almost as good as spotted owl."
---
Which spurred on this contribution from yet another anonymous:
And almost as good as spotted owl.
Potted Spotted Owl.
It is delishus!
Skin, paunch and wash the owl.
Cut it into pieces, dredge with flour and fry in butter.
Put the pieces of fried owl, an onion stuck with six cloves, a lemon peeled and cut in half, and generous pinches salt, pepper and cayenne into a pot. Cover completely with good brown gravy.
Cover the pot well, put it up to the rim into a saucepan of boiling water.
Stew until the owl is quite tender - probably about four hours.
When nearly done, pour in a generous dash of port wine.
Serve with red currant jelly - NOT that ghastly red muck, what's it called, you know, the frightfull sour crap Americans normally serve with roast turkey. That noxious stuff made from some wild Indian bog berry. Inedible!
Good owl deserves red currant jelly!
Seasonable from September to the end of February.
Bon appetitt!
[End quote]
CULINARY CURIOSITY
I've eaten zebra, snake, alligator, fruitbat, and wildebeest.
I have never had spotted owl. Or whale meat.
Wherefore I bow to the superior knowledge of my readers.
And express the wish that they ask me over for dinner one of these days.
Looking at my calendar, I note that I am free for most of January.
And February.
And March, except for the last two days. Free again from the third week of April through the rest of Spring.
All Summer.
And most of Fall.
I'll bring the wine. What goes well with whale?
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Wednesday, January 06, 2010
SEA SHEPHERD TERRORISTS ATTACK JAPANESE VESSEL
Five criminals from New Zealand and one Dutchman have been rescued after their attack on a Japanese boat went disastrously wrong.
After throwing chemicals on the Japanese ship, and trying to entangle its rudder with rope, the extremists on the Ady Gil circled around to attack from the front, attempting to ram the Nisshin Maru.
[Such tactics are explained in this "helpful" video produced by the anti-whaling side:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_6v5bcVSS4
in which it is made clear that the eco-thugs will not hesitate to break international laws and engage in piracy.]
Their attempt failed, and their own boat was severely damaged.
Unfortunately their henchmen pulled them from the waters.
From the BBC:
"The crew of the Ady Gil, five from New Zealander and one from the Netherlands, were picked up unharmed by nearby Sea Shepherd vessel Bob Barker near Commonwealth Bay.
"The Ady Gil is believed to be sinking and chances of salvage are very grim," the Sea Shepherd statement said.
A video apparently shot from on board the Japanese vessel showed the two ships smashing into each other at speed.
The Ady Gil was swamped by waves, its nose was torn off and damage could be seen to its side."
SOURCE:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8442808.stm
The extremists detail their version of events here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brw6JN0lQXY
PERFECT FOR PIRACY
The Ady Gil is a high-speed and very maneuverable craft, whereas the Nisshin Maru needs a much larger turning radius and greater breaking distance. From which it is logically obvious not only that the New Zealand thugs (and the Dutchman) deliberately took risks and sought confrontation, but also that it would have been far easier for them to have avoided the collision than for the Japanese to have prevented it.
The New Zealand terrorists cannot help but boast about the Ady Gil here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hsB5IqO-dw&feature=related
This video also shows what a super boat they have:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ovtXC8zLH8&feature=related
And in this slick footage, you can clearly see the speed and maneuverability:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR96rKo6M7k&feature=related
"Sea Shepherd extremism is becoming more violent... Their actions are nothing but felonious behaviour"
---ICR, Japan
HUNTING THE SNARK
Frankly, I think that whaling in this day and age is misguided, to say the least. It would probably be best if it ceased entirely.
But I take exception to a bunch of know-it-all middle-class white folks imposing their view on the rest of the world through bully-boy tactics, and furthermore doing it in ways which are calculated to insult, demean, and infuriate other cultures.
From Wikipedia:"The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a non-profit marine conservation organization based in Friday Harbor, Washington in the United States that utilizes direct action tactics. "
Additionally, employing piracy ("direct action tactics") on the high seas, and knowing themselves immune from prosecution because the Western Nations have a smug sense of cultural superiority, and will make exceptions to international law as they see fit, is the height of arrogance.
If there were any justice in this world, Sea Shepherd vessels would be blown out of the water and whatever drifting survivors surrendered would be strung up after being put on trial.
At the very least, the United States should yank their tax-exempt status. It is untenable that such a bunch of terrorists should be coddled in any way by our government.
Those five New Zealanders and that Dutchman ought to be arrested when they set foot on land again, for piracy and attempted murder.
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After throwing chemicals on the Japanese ship, and trying to entangle its rudder with rope, the extremists on the Ady Gil circled around to attack from the front, attempting to ram the Nisshin Maru.
[Such tactics are explained in this "helpful" video produced by the anti-whaling side:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_6v5bcVSS4
in which it is made clear that the eco-thugs will not hesitate to break international laws and engage in piracy.]
Their attempt failed, and their own boat was severely damaged.
Unfortunately their henchmen pulled them from the waters.
From the BBC:
"The crew of the Ady Gil, five from New Zealander and one from the Netherlands, were picked up unharmed by nearby Sea Shepherd vessel Bob Barker near Commonwealth Bay.
"The Ady Gil is believed to be sinking and chances of salvage are very grim," the Sea Shepherd statement said.
A video apparently shot from on board the Japanese vessel showed the two ships smashing into each other at speed.
The Ady Gil was swamped by waves, its nose was torn off and damage could be seen to its side."
SOURCE:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8442808.stm
The extremists detail their version of events here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brw6JN0lQXY
PERFECT FOR PIRACY
The Ady Gil is a high-speed and very maneuverable craft, whereas the Nisshin Maru needs a much larger turning radius and greater breaking distance. From which it is logically obvious not only that the New Zealand thugs (and the Dutchman) deliberately took risks and sought confrontation, but also that it would have been far easier for them to have avoided the collision than for the Japanese to have prevented it.
The New Zealand terrorists cannot help but boast about the Ady Gil here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hsB5IqO-dw&feature=related
This video also shows what a super boat they have:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ovtXC8zLH8&feature=related
And in this slick footage, you can clearly see the speed and maneuverability:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR96rKo6M7k&feature=related
"Sea Shepherd extremism is becoming more violent... Their actions are nothing but felonious behaviour"
---ICR, Japan
HUNTING THE SNARK
Frankly, I think that whaling in this day and age is misguided, to say the least. It would probably be best if it ceased entirely.
But I take exception to a bunch of know-it-all middle-class white folks imposing their view on the rest of the world through bully-boy tactics, and furthermore doing it in ways which are calculated to insult, demean, and infuriate other cultures.
From Wikipedia:"The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a non-profit marine conservation organization based in Friday Harbor, Washington in the United States that utilizes direct action tactics. "
Additionally, employing piracy ("direct action tactics") on the high seas, and knowing themselves immune from prosecution because the Western Nations have a smug sense of cultural superiority, and will make exceptions to international law as they see fit, is the height of arrogance.
If there were any justice in this world, Sea Shepherd vessels would be blown out of the water and whatever drifting survivors surrendered would be strung up after being put on trial.
At the very least, the United States should yank their tax-exempt status. It is untenable that such a bunch of terrorists should be coddled in any way by our government.
Those five New Zealanders and that Dutchman ought to be arrested when they set foot on land again, for piracy and attempted murder.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
PRAISE FOR THE JAPANESE
Two anti-whaling activists boarded a Japanese ship after trying to damage its propeller and throwing bottles of acid.
They are presently still on board - according to the organization to which they belong, they are being held by force, having been assaulted by the crew and tied to the radar mast. According to Japanese whaling officials, the two were not harmed, and such claims are untrue.
[See this article:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7190957.stm]
Quote:
.....the men had illegally boarded the vessel after trying to damage its propeller and throwing bottles of acid.
A spokesman for Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tomohiko Taniguchi, said that there was a strong desire on the Japanese side to return the two men.
Officials had contacted Sea Shepherd but received no response, he said.
A condition of the handover was that Sea Shepherd's inflatable boats agreed to remain 10 miles from Japanese vessels.
"If Sea Shepherd is not willing to do what the Japanese side wants them to do, I'm afraid it will take more time," he said.
Calling the two men hostages was incorrect, he added. "The two crew members were intentionally left behind on board."
Sea Shepherd, meanwhile, described a conditional release as unacceptable.[End quote]
Forcefully boarding a vessel in mid-ocean is an act of piracy. Much as I sympathize with 'my cetacean fellow world-citizens', it seems to me that the two men should be simply dumped overboard, in lieu of being clapped in irons and eventually tried. I advocate clubbing them unconscious first, though - it would be more merciful. Though I doubt either that they deserve or would appreciate the kindness.
Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said he expected the men to be returned "in a safe and secure condition".
The Aussie foreign minister should shut his honourable pie-hole.
This is outside his jurisdiction and none of his business. Two self-righteous nimrods puddling around the ocean intent on causing trouble are of concern only to those whom they inconvenience, and perhaps to their nearest and dearest - who should've counseled them against such a foolhardy course of action in the first place. Only one of the men (Benjamin Potts) is even Australian, by the way; the other (Giles Lane) is English.
This is NOT, by any stretch of the imagination, part of Mr. Stephen Smith's brief. Sticking his big Ozzie nose into this is no more than a bad case of post-colonial hubris.
[Furthermore, Australia does not rank high enough on the list of civilized nations to throw its weight around.]
The Japanese should not give into blackmail. Those two nuisances should rot until their organization agrees to terms.
I am not a proponent of whaling, and not overly fond of the Japanese (their military put paid to the sweetest bit of imperialist exploitation us Dutch-speakers every had going for us, and I count survivors of the death-camps in the East-Indies among friends and kin).
But this is not about whaling, it is about activist thuggery.
Restraining two hooligans who committed an act of piracy is perfectly legal.
Sinking the boats of their co-conspirators would also have been justifiable. Regretfully, this was not done. The Japanese are acting calmer and more rational than the Australians, and should be commended for it.
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They are presently still on board - according to the organization to which they belong, they are being held by force, having been assaulted by the crew and tied to the radar mast. According to Japanese whaling officials, the two were not harmed, and such claims are untrue.
[See this article:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7190957.stm]
Quote:
.....the men had illegally boarded the vessel after trying to damage its propeller and throwing bottles of acid.
A spokesman for Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tomohiko Taniguchi, said that there was a strong desire on the Japanese side to return the two men.
Officials had contacted Sea Shepherd but received no response, he said.
A condition of the handover was that Sea Shepherd's inflatable boats agreed to remain 10 miles from Japanese vessels.
"If Sea Shepherd is not willing to do what the Japanese side wants them to do, I'm afraid it will take more time," he said.
Calling the two men hostages was incorrect, he added. "The two crew members were intentionally left behind on board."
Sea Shepherd, meanwhile, described a conditional release as unacceptable.[End quote]
Forcefully boarding a vessel in mid-ocean is an act of piracy. Much as I sympathize with 'my cetacean fellow world-citizens', it seems to me that the two men should be simply dumped overboard, in lieu of being clapped in irons and eventually tried. I advocate clubbing them unconscious first, though - it would be more merciful. Though I doubt either that they deserve or would appreciate the kindness.
Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said he expected the men to be returned "in a safe and secure condition".
The Aussie foreign minister should shut his honourable pie-hole.
This is outside his jurisdiction and none of his business. Two self-righteous nimrods puddling around the ocean intent on causing trouble are of concern only to those whom they inconvenience, and perhaps to their nearest and dearest - who should've counseled them against such a foolhardy course of action in the first place. Only one of the men (Benjamin Potts) is even Australian, by the way; the other (Giles Lane) is English.
This is NOT, by any stretch of the imagination, part of Mr. Stephen Smith's brief. Sticking his big Ozzie nose into this is no more than a bad case of post-colonial hubris.
[Furthermore, Australia does not rank high enough on the list of civilized nations to throw its weight around.]
The Japanese should not give into blackmail. Those two nuisances should rot until their organization agrees to terms.
I am not a proponent of whaling, and not overly fond of the Japanese (their military put paid to the sweetest bit of imperialist exploitation us Dutch-speakers every had going for us, and I count survivors of the death-camps in the East-Indies among friends and kin).
But this is not about whaling, it is about activist thuggery.
Restraining two hooligans who committed an act of piracy is perfectly legal.
Sinking the boats of their co-conspirators would also have been justifiable. Regretfully, this was not done. The Japanese are acting calmer and more rational than the Australians, and should be commended for it.
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NOTE: If you wish, you may contact me directly:
LETTER BOX.
All correspondence will be kept in confidence.
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