Let us just examine the bolded parts above, in order:
Yes please...let's
When have the Sea Shepherds tried to sink a Japanese Whaler?
One mistake I often make on boards like these is I try to inject COMMON SENSE into the conversation (hard to believe I know
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Did the Sea Shepherds try to hurt Japanese Whaler crew members, or did they try to cover the Whaling vessel with rancid butter? If the AG is guilty of not getting out of the way are not those Whaler crew similarly guilty?
Read my posts please. I will wait and hopefully everybody else will as well. I have never said that the whaler was free of guilt. In fact I have said, more often than not that I am not aiming to apply guilt, but rather STUPIDITY. You keep arguing guilt. It is fun though so thanks
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How exactly did the Ady Gil put itself in front of the Whaler vessel in this instance, an instance where the Whaler vessel made a series of course changes to facilitate an attack run on an at idle vessel?
Clearly you need to watch a video or two. Clean your glasses if needed first. The AG clearly.....very clearly throttled up just in time to have it's nose chopped off.
I am not arguing the next point because I am not a "captain" (as the AG "captain" isn't either) but had they not throttled up, I emplore anybody out there to prove that it is not possible that the two ships would not have just bumped and scraped and scratched but both boats/ships could have carried on for another day. I personally think since only the tip of the AG was taken, it is possible that the AG might have ended up being shoved out of the way by the whaler rather than chopped apart. Again, that is a possible point of discussion and not something I am going to argue.....I see it as a possibility though.
When have the Sea Shepherds used deadly force against the Japanese Whalers?
Where have I ever said that they did? You misunderstood what I said again. I was agreeing with DCBC that deadly force is never called for but saying that the SS has a history of putting themselves right in front of a fast moving boat and then moving.
While I can not argue that the Ady Gil crew were caught with their pants down, taking into consideration the maritime rules and the nature of maneuvering the Ady Gil, is it not likely that the crew was just following procedure to let the Whalers use the acoustic weapon and the water cannons on them?
Yes, it is in fact possible that the crew of the AG were simply following orders. And, if that is the case, then I believe they would be perfect commandos for any army because they are capable of following orders to a point which carries way beyond stupidity. Most humans are programmed with the desire to live. It is human instinct in MOST human beings to make every effort to get themselves out of harms way in an effort to "live". The Stupidity gene (or the gene which causes them to blindly follow orders) obviously won that battle.
If the Japanese Whalers wanted to keep the high ground in this skirmish, why did their Captain commit numerous illegal acts in this obvious ramming and serious endangerment of lives of the Ady Gil and crew?
I am not saying I would try to use deadly force but if the SS subjected me to the bull**** that they subject those whalers to, there is no hope in hell that I would be trying to take the high ground.
