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Originally posted by Ophidian:
Exactly! GO... as in to Jail, Do not pass Go, Do not collect $200.

I would love to see that whale in jail

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1983: Paul Watson and “Sea Shepherd” vessel engineer Paul Pezwick, tried and convicted in a Quebec, Canada, court for “interfering in the annual seal hunt in the Gulf of St. Lawrence”. Trial followed arrest in March 1983 when “Sea Shepherd” vessel boarded by Canadian police. “Sea Shepherd” fortified including electric barbed wire around the deck’s edges. Seventeen crew arrested. Watson and three others flee across ice to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, but caught and arrested. Watson charged additionally with piloting a ship in a dangerous manner, intimidation of the sealers and being unlawfully within a half mile of the seal hunt – a violation of the Seal Protection Regulations. Watson sentenced to 15 months imprisonment.

1983: In retaliation for Watson’s arrest by Canadian police, animal rights extremists slash car tires and spray paint slogans on walls of buildings in the inner city of Quebec. “Fisheries Murder Seals” and “Set Paul Watson Free” slogans spray painted on the Department of Fisheries and Oceans offices in Keele Street. Animal Liberation Front delivers letter to the Quebec Star newspaper admitting causing several thousand dollars worth of damage to the Department’s Keele Street offices.

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take out all of the Jap's whaling fleet

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You cant just illegally board a ship

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Originally posted by antiantiwhaler:
It might be this:

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1983: Paul Watson and “Sea Shepherd” vessel engineer Paul Pezwick, tried and convicted in a Quebec, Canada, court for “interfering in the annual seal hunt in the Gulf of St. Lawrence”. Trial followed arrest in March 1983 when “Sea Shepherd” vessel boarded by Canadian police. “Sea Shepherd” fortified including electric barbed wire around the deck’s edges. Seventeen crew arrested. Watson and three others flee across ice to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, but caught and arrested. Watson charged additionally with piloting a ship in a dangerous manner, intimidation of the sealers and being unlawfully within a half mile of the seal hunt – a violation of the Seal Protection Regulations. Watson sentenced to 15 months imprisonment.

1983: In retaliation for Watson’s arrest by Canadian police, animal rights extremists slash car tires and spray paint slogans on walls of buildings in the inner city of Quebec. “Fisheries Murder Seals” and “Set Paul Watson Free” slogans spray painted on the Department of Fisheries and Oceans offices in Keele Street. Animal Liberation Front delivers letter to the Quebec Star newspaper admitting causing several thousand dollars worth of damage to the Department’s Keele Street offices.

This is from Paul Watson history of violence

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Originally posted by SoCal2009:
South Park is such a good show, just over did it a little in respect to Paul Watson, but they got the point across about the Japanese, and the senseless killing.

I feel sorry for the cows now!

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Originally posted by LeaveWhalesAlone:

Has he ever been in jail before at any point in time?

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Anyway he seems smart enough to stay out of jail.

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And I still can't stand seeing those whales killed.

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Originally posted by antiantiwhaler:
scene of "kidnapping"
Peter the Hammer Explains Kidnapping

view from Japanese vessel

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They requested tempura (deep-fried food) after this, and had fish. While they are feasting on this, SS released a statement.

SS on the Two Hostages

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When they returned, Watson was not on the deck to greet the "hostages."

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No Watson

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And, the hostages reported that they were abused.

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Both men were happy to be reunited with their shipmates and eager to return to chasing the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Oceans. Both men reported that although they were roughed up when they first boarded the whaling ship, that they were treated well during their time onboard. The only injury was a bruised wrist suffered by Giles Lane.

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Originally posted by agni99:

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take out all of the Jap's whaling fleet

You do realize that the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force is one of the most powerful naval forces in the world? That the Japanese Coast Guard is similarly well equipped and trained?

The scenario of a rag tag bunch of civilians using violence against a powerful sovereign state only ends one way.

In the end, all this direct action is nothing but nuisance behavior. Anything that actually stopped whaling or any similar legal activity (like sealing), results in Coast Guard action.

Norway's Coast Guard now fires on SSCS vessels and chases them away. The Canadians will now board and seize their ships. If the Japanese do likewise, the Sea Monkeys will have to find another issue for fund raising.

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Originally posted by Whale hunter:
As Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan prohibits Japan from using military force except in self-defense. If law abiding Japanese workers are being attacked in international waters then sending the JMSDF down with them would be considerd self defence or a peace keeping mission which they are also allowed to do, hence why Japanese troops were deployed to Iraq.

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ARTICLE 9. (1) Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. (2) To accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.