Sea Shepards ram Japanese whaling ship

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Thats where the registry comes in . OK when there is another specific legal case they just lose their ship again and buy another, but without registry every harbour and every navy is obliged to impound the vessel by law . Once the Dutch follow other nations in refusing to flag the vessls then sea shepherd will be unable to dock anywhere in the world .
They want to be pirates, then thats the price they pay.
Oh and the attempt they want to try at sailing with the nations confederacy flag won't work as no country recognises it as a registered merchant marine.
Quite frankly these idiots are even worse than the complete idiots at PETA.


Thats a very expensive business and not a very sensible one to follow, especially when they have no possible legal arguement to justify their actions.

I think we've reached the 'ad nauseum' phase in this debate but let's keep going anyway, in the end this is a good, worthwhile issue.

Again, I'll wait until they will be 'barred from harbours' and how exactly that will stop them. And what will happen with the Japanese 'scientific' whaling then. Obviously some people have much faith in basicly commercial companies keeping natures intrests first when the other option is to make more profits. I wonder what option they will choose. Or then, more likely option is that some people just don't care if certain species are basicly hunted to extinction.

Interesting you should bring up PETA because both them and the Shepherds are from the States. If one should critizise the SS for something then a good point would be to point out that they are based in the US and mainly carry out operations against non-US targets making then an entity that furthers US intrests around the world against it's competitors.

Letum,

I think they have these things called lawyers that represent them in the courts and stuff. They're not like, fugitives and stuff.