Just because WE (australia) claim these waters to be ours does NOT mean we are correct. This has been stated many times in this thread, 99% of the world does not recognise our claim, NOT just japan. It is why we have not bothered with any international legal cases against anyone regarding these same waters.
If american went and stated a claim to these waters, with the rest of the world not recognising same claim, I'm quite certain they would be branded arrogant and many other things. So why are WE (australia) being just as arrogant?
WE (australia) have no justifyable claim to these waters. Many nations fish in these very same waters, yet we never hear about it because they are not whaling. If WE (australia) think these are our waters, why are we NOT protecting them the same as we do when countries fish in our border waters?
Whale watching in the 1950s.
Thousands of people watched the whales being caught from coastal vantage points daily. At any time of the day or night there was a crowd watching the flensing at Byron Bay. On Sundays a train used to go from Casino to Byron Bay and another from Murwillumbah. Cars parked opposite the whaling station would number in the hundreds ( I have photos to prove that).
The whaling was an important local employer. The businesses in the town did a roaring trade.
Byron Bay was the smallest station in Australia.
I'm pro whaling. I dont kiss a### for anyone. Are you one who thinks everyone acts like you? Are you kissing the a/// of the skipper of the protest ship ?
Nor does pro whaling make me anti Aussie.
I'd like to see Aussie whaling and its benefits to the Aussie economy.I'd like to see it happen while there are still some of us around that know the ropes.
As for the Japanese, live and let live. (One reason why the Japanese entered the last war was because they were denied raw materials from the western world.) Do you want them to send the Japanese navy with thier whaling fleet and do you want Rudd to send ours?
So why are WE (australia) being just as arrogant?
What a completely arrogant ignorant narrowminded statement. But according to your standards, I am against. Shall we meet next week for an old fashioned gun duel?
The second issue is the Japanese are conducting their illegal whaling in our territorial waters. To make a stand on either issue is a matter of principle.
The only principal involved is that you and your ilk think whales are sacred. The Japanese think they are just fish to be caught and eaten like any other fish. All this talk about territorial waters is nonsense.
My "ilk" just happens to be the majority of the International Whaling Commission.
The IWC is a joke. Whales can be harvested at a sustainable level and they know this. Whales are not a sacred animal, except in the minds of eco-terrorists.
The second issue is the Japanese are conducting their illegal whaling in our territorial waters.
Whales are not a sacred animal, except in the minds of eco-terrorists.
So your term Eco terrorists would likely apply not just to people like myself but to a great number of hard working Australians (like the in-laws) trying to run a business around one of the few assets that actually is sustainable if some one doesn't kill the golden goose literally.
Much as you can try to claim the moral high ground, I'm afraid your unreal fascination with whales and your hatred of those you term Japanese ar*e kissers have clouded your judgement.
Agree. Just add it to the list of Kev's "gunna's".There is no way Kevin will take Japan to an international court. The man is all talk.
The high moral ground is to end whaling...........
Not a fascination, concerned about where the future is headed and the real disaster we hand onto future generations yes.
Definitely no hatred of anyone, really pointless emotion ........least of all any posters here and my judgment is just fine.
The high moral ground is to end whaling...........
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My mistake. I thought the moral high ground was to use a food resource in a sustainable manner. Or is it not my mistake but yours after all. Is it moral to deny another alternative food source in a world where many are starving?.
oh I do like that term 'militant'. Aren't the taliban and other iraqi groups called militants too?
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