Comments on: Australian Police Raid Sea Shepherd Vessel, Sieze ‘Whale Wars’ Footage

By: ryan

ryan — Tue, 31 May 2011 10:15:51 +0000

your very deluded

By: ryan

ryan — Tue, 31 May 2011 10:07:55 +0000

why shouldnt they be there its international waters no one owns that area. Any nation that says they do is ignorant. If you all use that fat lying slob, Paul Watson as a figure head you are wasting your time. He endangers human lives everytime he makes one of his stupid desicions. He should be glad that the Japanese have used restraint and now sunk him. Which would be well within there rights.

By: Saffron

Saffron — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 01:34:33 +0000

Are you kidding? If you knew anything about the Sea Shepard’s, you would know that they first started out protecting seals. It wasn’t until 1981 that they started protesting whale slaughter and the issue has been with different countries. They have helped end the dolphin slaughter in HI, the seal hunt in Ireland and so many other atrocities.
There is an actual ban on whaling, the Japanese have decided that they can pencil themselves in for a specific quota for “scientific” purposes, which we can all admit is a clouded veil for their own commercial meat packing purposes. If the Sea Shepherds were not out there defending the law, no one else would be doing it. The Japanese are in a marine preserve killing a protected species. We, as humans, have been taught that if something does not have a monetary value, it is worthless and Paul Watson is out there protecting what is really valuable for our planet and not our pocketbooks.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:45:51 +0000

All the comments I see from Dynamite are name calling.

By: Unbelievable

Unbelievable — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:15:34 +0000

I agree with Bryan C. It’s unbelievable, that Sea Shepard’s ships are still operating the way they do. The crew on these ships are in fact practicing terrorism and piracy. I’d like to add a few things to what is being said here. Being a sailing engineer on a standby&rescue vessel, I know more than a little about what is needed to be called a competent sailor. After watching a few episodes of Whale Wars, I think it’s unbelievable, that port authorities allow the Steve Irwin to set out to sea. I can’t say anything about which necessary certificates those people have, but I think the video footage shown on Whale Wars says it all. Much of the crew are volunteers with little or no experience at sea whatsoever. The officers also seem to have little or no clue of what they are doing. A few examples: I remember them trying to set out a boat with people in it. First of all, they were using a conventional hydraulic crane for the job. A dangerous and unsuited tool. It’s not intended for lifting people. Second, when they try to lower the boat into the sea, the crane operator lowers the boat to far from the ship’s side, and the officer holding the line attached to the boat does not hold it tight enough. Consequently, the boat gets pulled sideways in the water and gets turned over. Unbelievable lack of seamanship or just plain stupidity, if you ask me. I think it was after this incident, that the crew were trying to throw hooks out to the people on top of the capsized boat, who now had been in the water and in danger of getting hypothermia. One guy’s feeble attempt to throw a hook, resulted in damaging the propeller on the small helicopter instead. How such incompetent people manage to sail to the antarctic seas, and still get back alive I don’t know. The officers are supposed to be the veteran sailors and to be trusted by the rest of the crew, but how can anyone trust his life in the hands of a man, who says: “I’m willing to litterally give my life to save a whale.” ??? Those were the words of the guy with the dark hair, moustache and glasses. A complete fanatic’s words. With that in mind, I began to understand how they think they can justify the infantile arguments they make, when they are calling the japanese ships on the radio, for instance. Also when Paul Watson was supposedly shot, I really lost all respect for all that is Sea Shepherd. First of all, it would have to be a shot in a billion. Nobody can fire and hit at that distance from a rocking ship to another ship and right in the chest of a person. The only injury he got, was a small prick and thus he lost one single drop of blood. A bullet from a gun hits with the same force you feel when you fire it. That means, the person, which is hit, is knocked over and gets one or a few broken bones or at least a serious bruise if he’s wearing a bullet proof vest. I’m no firearms specialist, but I do know the laws of physics also apply onboard a ship at sea. I think before they went to sea, Watson took out that bullet proof vest and fired a gun at it himself. Then, at the right moment, he put the vest on and stung himself with a needle to pretend he was shot.
I’m glad the Whale Wars series exist. Watson probably indended it to be a great way to show people, how grand Sea Shepherd is. In reality, it has backfired. It mostly shows how fanatic and incompetent Sea Shepherd is. Perhaps they will get more followers, but not from a sane and rational group of people.

By: i love whales

i love whales — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:16:32 +0000

sorry but your comment about Jap whaler’s is pretty racist.

By: B

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:57:07 +0000

Well said Bryan C…

As for WHITE Claw…your ignorance and blatant racism is astounding. I suppose you’d have us round up all the “blacks” and have them enslaved again, seeing as everyone is not in fact equal. Have you ever even crawled far enough from your trailer to attempt a rational conversation with a Japanese person alive today? Well, I have had the privilege of living in Japan and I can assure you they are generally an amazingly peace loving, gentle and rational society. While I will readily admit that their forefathers have made some great mistakes, lets not forget that our own, or at least, my own country, the USA dropped not just one but TWO nuclear warheads on two cities with phenomenal collateral damage (to the tune of a quarter million civilian deaths).

But I digress…it just amazes me how the very thing (racism, or the feeling of one race being superior to another) which had the Japanese so brainwashed in WWII is the very thing which you propagate.

And just for clarification, the Japanese eat whale, as in the whole thing, it’s not because they were the one’s who flew the Enola Gay (South Park reference). Also in reference to that South Park episode I loved how at the end Stan’s father points out that by just slaughtering chickens and cows that they’re now “just like us”.

By: white claw

white claw — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:01:18 +0000

Japan is ranked as one of the worst offenders for sex trafficking in women and child sex – the possession of child pornography is still legal in Japan.

You see Japan is quite advanced with regard to electronics (mostly helped tremendously by American as a result of the the Atomic bombings delivered to Japan largely due to Japan’s barbaric attack on China and other nations during WWII)
But, the Japanese are largely a very backward people.
During WWII Japanese women and children throw themselves off cliffs when Allied forces advanced – they were so brain washed and ill treated by Japanese propaganda they thought American soldiers would eat them alive,
and, rape them, but thats what the Japanese soldiers were actually invited to do to their victims.

You cant reason with people that are backward and ‘come to an agreement through talking’
You have to be forceful – the Sea Shepard is not forceful enough.
And, I know as Westerners have all been taught that ‘everyone is equal’
How sweet, they unfortunately are not.

Its not a nice thing to say but its true.
Verdict: dont buy Buy Japanese products, pirate copy Sony Pictures entertainment content.

By: Mac

Mac — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:36:21 +0000

“wanting to sea the sea Sheppard”?? Wow, we are not the same IQ that’s for sure – thanks for clarifying that point publicly

“Sinking the Sea Sheppard” was an illustration that the Japanese are not nearly as barbaric as portrayed on the show or in this forum. My use of an obvious absurdity was clearly a fly by for you. I find it hilarious that one side can claim any tactics are fair, but mere words by a non-participant are an issue – leftist are a hoot!

By: Mac

Mac — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:15:19 +0000

Would you allow me to throw a bottle of any liquid at your head from a moving vessel? You make it sound so fun, I’d like to try it out – just for educational purposes of course. I promise when it hits you, that I only will have intended it to further the cause of peace and educational understanding.