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A Sea Shepherd ship comes betweenJapanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru (left) and the whaling fleet's fuel tanker during a clash Monday off Antarctica. (Sea Shepherd Australia image)

Washington-based Sea Shepherd denies claims they're 'modern-day pirates'

BY KIRO Radio Staff  on February 26, 2013 @ 1:30 pm (Updated: 1:53 pm - 2/26/13 )

A federal appeals court panel says a group of anti-whaling protesters based out of Friday Harbor are "modern-day pirates" and ordered them to halt their aggressive and high-profile attacks of Japanese whalers.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opinion is a follow-up to an injunction issued in December. The court ordered the organization to keep its ships at least 500 yards from Japanese whalers. The whalers have since accused the protesters of violating that order at least twice this month.

Scott West, director of investigations for Sea Shepherd, says the U.S. operation separated itself from Sea Shepherd-Australia, which is conducting the direct action against the whaling operations off Antarctica, and the opinion has no bearing.

"What Sea Shepherd Australia is doing with Australian flagged vessels and Dutch flagged vessels down in the Australian Antarctic territory is outside of any sort of control of the courts in the United States," he said.

"You don't need a peg leg or an eye patch," Chief Judge Alex Kozinski said in the majority opinion calling Sea Shepherd pirates. Kozinski said the activists threatened the lives of Japanese whalers, describing their tactics as "the very embodiment of piracy."

"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, no matter how high-minded you believe your purpose to be."

"Ramming ships, fouling propellers and hurling fiery and acid-filled projectiles easily qualify as violent activities, even if they could somehow be directed only at inanimate objects," Konzinski ruled.

But West vehemently disagreed. "We have yet to hurt anybody, we have yet to plunder any gold or do anything that would fit within the definition of privacy," he said.

The 9th Circuit Court ruled late Monday that the whalers were likely to succeed with their federal lawsuit seeking to permanently ban Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd organization he founded from disrupting the annual whale hunt in the Southern Ocean.

The Sea Shepherd's efforts are the subject of the television show, 'Whale Wars.'

The case will be remanded to U.S. District Court in Seattle for further action.

Just Monday, a Sea Shepherd ship clashed Monday off Antarctica with a Japanese whaling fleet. Sea Shepherd captain Paul Watson said the factory ship Nisshin Maru rammed a Sea Shepherd vessel, while the Institute of Cetacean Research accused several Sea Shepherd boats of ramming the Nisshin Maru as it tried to refuel with a supply tanker, The Japan Times reported.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

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  • DavidCreighton70 wrote...
    This has been a while in coming
    February 26, 2013 1:35 pm
    If you are off the coast of Somalia and a ship approaches you so close you could run into each other, they shoot objects onto your deck and they try to ruin your ship; you might think they are engaging in piracy. This has to be treated the same. You can't be expected to know it's just a bunch of self important hippies. There are rules. I'm surprised it hasn't escalated further really. Yes there should be attention paid to declining populations of species and prevention of extinction, but there is like a million Minke whales and Japan takes 1,000 per year. Even if a million is high there is a significant enough number to justify hunting them to a degree. Now I know everyone on the Sea Shepherd boat is probably a vegetarian & that's fine, but really we kill millions of cows and billions of chickens in America each year not to mention all the piggies and turkeys and ducks and we have no problem eating them.
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  • Drool wrote...
    Watch a Whale Being Killed Some Time
    February 26, 2013 4:42 pm
    You cannot compare it to farmed cattle or even game hunting for that matter. The animal is alive for a long time until they can pull it back to the harpoon ship to dispatch it. It is hardly a humane kill.

    ..and yes I've eaten minke whale. It is quite good. The Japanese are being hypocrites hiding behind "research".

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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    @drool...
    February 27, 2013 9:11 am
    No one has the right to act illegally and dangerously and violently to stop a LEGAL action (regardless of what one thinks of the whalers, it IS legal activity). It's the consistent illegal acts by the 'Sea Shepard' group that has caused them to be deemed pirates. Why? BECAUSE THE ARE. And by the way - not living creature dies 'pretty'. So playing the it's not a pleasant death' card needs to look at every single sea creature being harvested for food/research/whatever. They don't die 'pretty'. It's a sad little fact that we gloss over in our lives while consuming all those wonderful fish, scallops, lobsters, clams, mussels, etc. etc. Lobsters, clams, mussels all get killed while being cooked.... It's the way the world is.
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  • stopthegreed wrote...
    Really
    February 26, 2013 5:17 pm
    I know many of Sea Shepherds crew. To call any of them "hippies" is Totally ignorant. Almost all hold down great jobs. One of my closest friends works for NASA and she lives in California. They come from all walks of life. Concerned people, very well educated a lot of them. Pull your head in.. Anyone who believes its ok for the Japanese to take 50 Fin and 50 Humpbacks which are Endangered from inside an IWC designated "Whale Sanctuary" must also believe its ok to poach other Threatened and Endangered Species. And those people arnt the sharpest knives in the block.
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  • DavidCreighton70 wrote...
    Hippies thing
    February 26, 2013 10:16 pm
    Right ok. you know some of them and I am sure that they are very wonderful people. I'm sorry but they are pretty much hippies. That doesn't mean they are bad people. Maybe i should have used the word activists instead which is essentially a person that wants to force their opinion on everyone else. The Japs shouldn't be poaching endangered species you are right and its not for research its for food. I'm not painting them out to be angels, but it is actually a historical and traditional thing for them. Are eskimos allowed to hunt whales? Also Minke's aren't endangered really. And to the guy that said harpooning is cruel, well fishing is cruel pretty much no matter what species. Would you want to swim around with a hook in your mouth for however long it takes to reel you in and then be taken into a boat where you can't breathe so some old redneck could go 'hey look how big this one is' and then be tossed back in the water. Or do you think its fun to be a coon trapped in a snare for a day waiting to get shot in the head or to be a deer shot with an arrow running around in panic until it bleeds out? If there is a deficiency in laws regarding animal poaching in the oceans that should be addressed somewhere but the problem is no one really has jurisdiction, but the answer isn't people driving boats dangerously close to the ship on their own and doing things that, like i said if anyone else was doing them, you would think they were attacking you.
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  • DavidCreighton70 wrote...
    Hippies thing
    February 26, 2013 10:26 pm
    Right ok. you know some of them and I am sure that they are very wonderful people. I'm sorry but they are pretty much hippies. That doesn't mean they are bad people. Maybe i should have used the word activists instead which is essentially a person that wants to force their opinion on everyone else. The Japs shouldn't be poaching endangered species you are right and its not for research its for food. I'm not painting them out to be angels, but it is actually a historical and traditional thing for them. Are eskimos allowed to hunt whales? Also Minke's aren't endangered really. And to the guy that said harpooning is cruel, well fishing is cruel pretty much no matter what species. Would you want to swim around with a hook in your mouth for however long it takes to reel you in and then be taken into a boat where you can't breathe so some old redneck could go 'hey look how big this one is' and then be tossed back in the water. Or do you think its fun to be a coon trapped in a snare for a day waiting to get shot in the head or to be a deer shot with an arrow running around in panic until it bleeds out? If there is a deficiency in laws regarding animal poaching in the oceans that should be addressed somewhere but the problem is no one really has jurisdiction, but the answer isn't people driving boats dangerously close to the ship on their own and doing things that, like i said if anyone else was doing them, you would think they were attacking you.
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  • maplefish wrote...
    OK, how about... STUPID HIPPIES???
    February 26, 2013 11:01 pm
    Just watch the South Park episode on these self-important morons! They nailed it. And if whales are so smart, how come they cant breathe under water??? How 'bout you idiots go help some children or elderly people???....Stupid Hippies! BAWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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  • Cbrew wrote...
    Maplefish
    February 27, 2013 7:30 am
    I'm suprised you're against these guys... sure they're a strange bunch of folks and I know it's hard to get behind any kind of "activist" group, but if you look at the situation... I have to say i think Sea Shepherd is on the right side of this issue, The Japanese are indeed illegally whaling after signing a treaty to stop... They agreed to stop whaling and then turned around and started doing it where nobody thought they'd get caught... They are saying they're researching whales by killing something like 900 of them a year... no matter what side of the issue you're on, you should at least acknowledge that Japan is in violation of it's treaty obligations, it's illegally whaling.. In my opinion, Sea Shepherd has as much right to do what it does as the whalers have to do what they're doing.
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  • maplefish wrote...
    Cbrew
    February 27, 2013 5:58 pm
    WHATEVER....They are terrorists! and STUPID HIPPES! :)
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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    @Stopthegreed
    February 27, 2013 6:28 am
    I don't care if they are hippies or if they are businessmen in suits. When it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and flys like a duck, it's a
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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    @stopthegreed
    February 27, 2013 9:15 am
    Who cares whether someone calls them hippies or pretend sailors. What they are is terrorists and pirates. They use the tactics of terror/fear/intimidation and lawbreaking to get what they want - just like any other terrorist or pirate. And the japanese are LEGALLY whaling - we may disagree with what they are doing (and I do disagree with them doing it), but that does not give us or these Sea Shepard terrorist pirates the right to try to achieve thier goals using tactics of terror/fear/intimidation and lawbreaking. The only difference between the actions of most terrorist groups and Sea Shepard is that they don't kill people (yet), and they have a TV show.
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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    just a bunch of self important hippies
    February 26, 2013 1:43 pm
    You forgot to insert "dangerous" too. These guys are whack-jobs and not only is someone going to get seriously hurt, someone is gonna get killed eventually. And from what I've seen, watched and read, the "Sea Shepherd" org will be 1000% responsible. And all while they will play the victim card and claim they are not the aggressors and the Japanese "attacked" them, which is a blatant lie.
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  • stopthegreed wrote...
    Cant see the wood through the trees
    February 26, 2013 5:19 pm
    Drop the Hippie comments. Its so ignorant.
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  • Ron_Spins wrote...
    L.O.L ..When did Hippie become a verboten word or Hate Speech?
    February 26, 2013 11:59 pm
    .
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  • Cbrew wrote...
    HPD 5-0
    February 27, 2013 7:33 am
    If you actually watch the show, the Japanese are at least as aggressive if not more aggressive than the Sea Shepherd organization. Japan is illegally whaling, Sea Shepherd is trying to stop them, to me, i don't see how you can side with the Japanese on this? Be honest with yourself, is this just because you hate protesters and enviromentalists? you can't possibly believe Japan is in the right here, they're violating a treaty they signed that bans Commercial whaling.
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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    @Cbrew...
    February 27, 2013 9:18 am
    Last I checked, the Japanese were LEGALLY whaling - you may not like how they get that legal status (I sure don't) - but arbitrarily calling it illegal because you don't like it is absurd. AND if you ship is repeatedly attacked aggressively, wouldn't you respond aggressively to prevent the attackers from trying to damage or sink your own boat? Gee - I guess they are supposed to just sit there and risk being sunk in a very deadly part of the ocean, just to satisfy your thinking...
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  • mnpat wrote...
    I can't be certain but it appears those feeling hollier than thow in their crusdaes to save us from ourselves,
    February 26, 2013 2:24 pm
    Don't seem to care to much about laws, they tend to go the anarchy route.
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  • Cbrew wrote...
    mnpat - same to you as the rest above
    February 27, 2013 7:36 am
    Japan is illegally whaling.. they signed a treaty stating that they would no longer conduct commercial whaling, then immediately broke that treaty and tried to pass it off as "research"... Sea Shepherd may not be the type of people you like, but i honestly believe they are on the right side of this issue, and maybe you shouldn't just judge them based on the fact that they are an activist group... I know how you conservatives HATE activism no matter what...
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  • Brian Oblivion wrote...
    They are terrorists
    February 26, 2013 2:37 pm
    Criminals bankrolled by ultra rich, wracked with guilt, self loathing limousine liberals. When I was a kid you could still buy whale meat in the store and it was delicious. Maybe a little gamey.
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  • stopthegreed wrote...
    When you were a kid
    February 26, 2013 5:24 pm
    You probably didn't let people with a tan get an Education or buy food from the same store as you either. You would hope you had learn't something since then.
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  • maplefish wrote...
    Wow - Stopthegreed...
    February 26, 2013 11:03 pm
    You are sooooo DEEP! I'm beting you probably worship Al Gore? Do you ride a Unicorn to work?
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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    Ah...the race card.
    February 27, 2013 5:25 am
    Fantastic. Always played when one has no legit argument. Congrats, comrade.
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  • Cbrew wrote...
    Brian Oblivion -
    February 27, 2013 7:38 am
    I think the point is, Whaling brought many whale species to the brink of extinction, just because you like the taste of it doesn't mean we should kill them all... I'm not trying to be overly sympathetic here, i'm just saying, use your head, there's a reason the rest of the world signed a treaty to ban commercial whaling... it's because we were quickly killing off all of the whales... Japan is violating that treaty that they signed, they're illegally whaling, I believe Sea Shepherd is on the right side of this and history will agree.
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  • Hectic wrote...
    No power
    February 26, 2013 2:39 pm
    The US courts can't tell them what to do. They are doing God's work, leave them alone.
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  • DavidCreighton70 wrote...
    No power may be true
    February 26, 2013 2:48 pm
    They may not technically have the power even though if there really is no sovereign power on the sea technically the Japs could just ram them and go about their business. And the God's business thing. Yeah Osama was doing 'God's Business' so.
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  • bofus wrote...
    God's work?
    February 26, 2013 3:43 pm
    That might be right. In fact I think the megalomaniac Watson thinks he is God.
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  • RonJ wrote...
    God's work indeed
    February 26, 2013 4:03 pm
    I can believe they think God spoke to them and told them to Save the Whales. I just wish God would tell the Japanese to sink the hippies and their boat.
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  • stopthegreed wrote...
    This is the real problem
    February 26, 2013 5:30 pm
    Clowns who have NO clue use words like "terrorists" and "hippies". Next you will be telling us Sea Shepherd has weapons of Mass destruction.
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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    @stopthegreed
    February 27, 2013 9:22 am
    I think your blind allegiance to these clowns makes it impossible for you to see that thier illegal and dangerous actions have finally earned them the position they should have had a long time ago: Terrorists and Pirates. Tell us how they are NOT terrorists and pirates when they ignore international law and attack LEGALLY operating vessels (yeah - we both disagree on what they do - and we both agree that it SHOULD be illegal, but it is indeed legal) with the intent of damaging, harming, disabling and if necessary, trying to sink them. THAT if done against a country or group of people would be considered acts of terrorism. Because it's against an act you disagree with (whaling) does not remove the fact that it meets the definition of terrorism.
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  • Cbrew wrote...
    Ronj
    February 27, 2013 7:42 am
    What an ignorant statement, I swear you conservatives have such rigid ideas.. How is it i can be both conservative and Liberal depending on the issue but so many of you block heads have to stick to your 1 side? Don't you like being right more than 45-50% of the time? I'm telling you, just because these guys are activists doesn't make them evil, they are trying to stop Whaling, tell me why that's a bad thing? Tell me why trying to force Japan to uphold the treaty they signed is a bad thing? Honestly we signed an anti-whaling treaty because Whales were becoming endangered... it wasn't activism it was SCIENTIFIC FACT that the whale population couldn't be sustained with the pressure on it, so if we stopped whaling for a good dang reason why are you against these guys for trying to stop the Japanese from Breaking that Treaty?
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  • hnuh wrote...
    02-26-2013...
    February 26, 2013 2:59 pm
    HATE whale killing. HATE the Japanese BS "Scientific whaling" lie. HATE IT. But, attack a ship on the high seas? Yes indeed, you are a pirate. See, civilized behavior demands non violent means of conflict resolution. Leftists in general CANNOT GET THIS THROUGH THEIR HEADS... until one of theirs gets hurt during their attack, then off they go crying for mama civilization. Truly a nasty group of people.
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  • RonJ wrote...
    Why is a whale different
    February 26, 2013 4:04 pm
    from any other food source? How 'bout cows?
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  • Drool wrote...
    When You Harpoon a Cow in the Wild.....
    February 26, 2013 4:45 pm
    ...and reel it back in in to a vehicle so you can dispatch it with an underpowered rifle, you have what is equivalent to whaling.

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  • stopthegreed wrote...
    Must be
    February 26, 2013 5:34 pm
    The first pro life organization trying to save lives who are "truly a nasty group of people" cough spat my drink when i read that. Ignorant but very funny.
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  • maplefish wrote...
    @hhuh
    February 26, 2013 11:10 pm
    Yep, you nailed it. Total mentally retarded Liberal HYPOCRITES. Like the PETA idiots that protest animal cruelty while they wear Leather coats and leather shoes....STUPID HIPPIES! Good Gawd, Aren’t you people embarrassed to prove to the world how ef ing STUPID you are??? Typical Obama lovers....
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  • Cbrew wrote...
    hnuh - they aren't attacking ships on high seas
    February 27, 2013 7:46 am
    They've positioned themselves in a way to block the Japanese fleet's movements and side by side collisions have occurred but the only ship that's been Rammed is one of the Sea Shepherd vessels by a Japanese ship, They actually ran it over and sunk it. Hnuh.. I know that you think every activist is evil and all that BS because you have a small mind, but in this instance i don't know how you're siding with the Japanese, they're illegally whaling, the activist group is trying to stop a legitimately illegal action, they aren't shooting at anybody and their techniques if you watch the show are not very dangerous... The bottom line is these guys saw something wrong and they're doing something about it... it is what it is... if you saw somebody beating a dog to death would you do something about it? probably... so why do you have a problem here when instead the dog is a whale and the people doing it signed a treaty promising they wouldn't?
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  • bofus wrote...
    It's about time
    February 26, 2013 3:32 pm
    Captain Crunch and his band of moronic misfits is called out for their actions on the high seas. Not a fan of whaling but less a fan of idiot fanatics who endanger others. I'm just wondering what took so long.
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  • messiah101 wrote...
    I believe in saving the whales BUT
    February 26, 2013 5:19 pm
    Watching the stunts these Green Peace people do is painful.If I was a member of the Japanese crew I would be retaliating.I'm surprised that they are not asking the Japanese Navy for protection because it won't be long before someone is killed and is a whale worth a human life?Not in my world
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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    @messiah101....
    February 27, 2013 9:24 am
    "Watching the stunts these Green Peace people do is painful." --- as much as I dislike GreenPeace, you cannot tie this group to GreenPeace. The leader of this terrorist group was kicked out of Greenpeace for being TOO radical!
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  • messiah101 wrote...
    FormerMarineSgt
    February 27, 2013 10:10 am
    Thanks for setting me straight.I've watched these guys on TV and for whatever reason always thought they were GreenPeace
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  • stopthegreed wrote...
    US Judge
    February 26, 2013 5:41 pm
    You have to laugh, A US Judge whos own country sticks its big nose into everybody elses business around the planet and who are the biggest bullies on the block and who murderer whoever they like whenever they like, trying to tell Australian run Sea Shepherd they cant protect another living species from poachers On the other side of the planet??? Now that's funny.
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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    ":biggest bullies on the block"?
    February 27, 2013 5:28 am
    So when are you leaving and recnouncing your citizenship? Dickwad....
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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    @HPD 5-0
    February 27, 2013 9:25 am
    with every repeated comment from stopthegreed, the more I'm convinced that he/she is actually a member of the Sea Shepard society and is actually advocating this illegal terrorism.
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  • maplefish wrote...
    Captain Crunch....LOL
    February 26, 2013 11:14 pm
    Brilliant! That says it all!!! Too eF ing FUNNY!!!! Just watch the South Park episode about these idiots...
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  • 5Twenty wrote...
    I love it...
    February 26, 2013 5:31 pm
    ...when oblivious, uniformed, trolls spout rediculous remarks like "these Green Peace" people. You don't even know who you talking about. Sea Shepherd and Green Peace are completely seperate and dissimilar organizations. Sea Shepherd takes action and physically tries to stop the whaling while Green Peace holds banners. Sorry, I'm just tired of internet idiots.
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  • maplefish wrote...
    5Twenty
    February 26, 2013 11:17 pm
    Wow- You are soo DEEP!!! uninformed, trolls? Wow! Why dont you go help some kids or elderly people...Or better yet, throw yourself into Puget Sound as a Gift to the Whales....Stupid HIPPY!
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  • Kurt WInston wrote...
    Let's be perfectly clear...
    February 26, 2013 5:53 pm
    "The Sea Shepherds are pirates. Period." _M. SMith, 9th Circuit Court http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2013/02/25/1235266.pdf http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2013/02/25/1235266cd.pdf
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  • maplefish wrote...
    I'll bet Obama
    February 26, 2013 11:21 pm
    Will throw this into one of his non-stop campaign SEQUESTER speeches tomorrow. Let me be clear: If we dont stop the sequester, all the whales will die....STUPID HIPPIES!
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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    Yep.
    February 27, 2013 5:29 am
    Armaggedon is near............and I love whales. They're delicious w/ a good white wine and a dill cream sauce.
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