From The Syndey Morning Herald: "An emotional Pete Bethune has returned to New Zealand unsure if he will head down to the Antarctic again but vowing he will never give up the fight to stop Japanese whaling.
The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday sentenced Bethune, 45, to two years' jail, suspended for five years, for assaulting a whaler by hurling a rancid butter stink bomb during a high seas confrontation." He pleaded guilty to obstructing commercial activities and charges stemming from climbing aboard the Japanese ship - trespass, vandalism and carrying a knife, with which he cut the ship's security netting. But he denied the assault, which prosecutors said left a 24-year-old whaler with chemical splash burns to his face following the February 11 confrontation in which Sea Shepherd activists hurled the stink bombs.
Mr Bethune, who spent four months in a Tokyo jail..."
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/nz-whaling-activist-bethune-returns-home-20100710-104ec.html
It is one thing to harass whaling ships but you lose my sympathy when you hurt human beings. It might be good TV (and I do watch the show) to see ships harass the ships, it is not good TV to intentionally hurt someone.
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They're not doing it because its good tv. They're doing it to prevent the extinction of whales.
ReplyDeletesince when did humans become more important then animals....
ReplyDeletePeople need to understand that every creature plays a vital role on this Earth...were killing this Earth because of greed and the want of money! Its utterly ridicilous! Makes me sad to know future generations will have to suffer the consequences.
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