Enviro-zealots and animal rights terrorists run amok
Three items for you:
1) Eco-zealots are bugging Japanese whaling ships–and they think it’s “funny:”
Anti-whaling activists from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society have admitted to bugging Japan’s whaling fleet with high-tech tracking devices in order to follow them.
Sea Shepherd’s vessel the Steve Irwin caught up with the Japanese whaling fleet near the Shackleton Ice Shelf on Saturday, having returned to Antarctic waters from a refueling pit stop in Melbourne. Sea Shepherd leader Paul Watson said the bugs had been planted on the Japanese harpoon boat Yushin Maru 2 when two of its crew boarded the vessel last month.
“That’s why when we left Melbourne it only took us nine days to find them. We went straight towards them,” Mr Watson said. “I think it’s really funny. They are probably ripping the ship apart right now trying to find them, but they aren’t going to find them.” Mr Watson said further tracking devices had also been planted on some of the other Japanese vessels. “We are not saying which ones, or how we did it, but we have the ability to follow the fleet and that’s what we are doing right now,” Mr Watson said.
2) Greenpeace nuts are breaching security to protest an airport expansion and “save the planet:”
Four activists from environmental campaigners Greenpeace breached security at London Heathrow to stage a protest on top of a jet against the airport’s planned expansion, the group said Monday.
The activists climbed on top of a British Airways Boeing 777 plane which had just landed from Manchester at around 0945 GMT and unfurled a huge banner across the tailfin reading: “Climate Emergency — No Third Runway”.
Their action came two days before the end of a government consultation on plans to expand Heathrow, notably by building a third runway, which have proved highly controversial with green campaigners and some local people. Supporters of the scheme including airlines and business argue that it is vital to sustain London’s status as a world financial centre.
One of those involved in the protest, Anna Jones, 27, said: “I am standing on this plane because our planet and the people who live on it are in danger. “Climate change can be beaten but not by doubling the size of the world’s biggest airport.”
3) And at UCLA, animal rights thugs continue to harass and intimidate scientists–causing a judge to issue restraining orders:
UCLA has sued extremists to stop a campaign of terrorism, vandalism and menacing threats directed at faculty and administrators who conduct or support research involving laboratory animals.
The lawsuit was filed Feb. 21 in Los Angeles County Superior Court. After a hearing, Judge Gerald Rosenberg granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting the defendants from harassing UCLA personnel or coming within 50 feet of them during a demonstration. The restraining order also requires that personal information about UCLA personnel be removed from Web sites maintained by extremists. Those failing to comply with the terms of the restraining order are subject to contempt of court. A hearing on a preliminary injunction is scheduled for March 12.
The lawsuit names three groups and five individuals as defendants and seeks a permanent injunction prohibiting them from harassing UCLA personnel or facilitating their harassment. The University of California Regents, which oversees all 10 UC campuses, is serving as the plaintiff of record on behalf of UCLA.
On three occasions since June 2006, Molotov cocktail-type devices have been left near the homes of UCLA faculty who conduct or oversee research involving animals. In addition, their homes have been vandalized and they have received threatening phone calls, e-mails and, on at least one occasion, a package rigged with razor blades. Extremists have appeared at residences in the middle of the night, worn ski masks to conceal their identity and used megaphones to shout threats, obscenities and epithets.
The defendants are groups known as the UCLA Primate Freedom Project, the Animal Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Brigade, as well as several individuals believed to affiliate with these groups, including Linda Faith Greene, Hillary Roney, Kevin Olliff, Ramin Saber and Tim Rusmisel. The suit alleges that these groups and individuals have promoted and facilitated unlawful activities directed against UCLA faculty and administrators. The Animal Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Brigade have in some cases claimed responsibility for unlawful activities directed against UCLA personnel and their homes.
Saving the planet by any means necessary. Laws and lives be damned.
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Environmental terrorists
Perhaps we might see something else coming in court against this nuts?
I bet every last one of these gosh horrible do not have a job or pay taxes. Who is funding these nuts?
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Great job of airport security! (Sarcasm)
Were we not once a nation OF laws? I seem to remember something familiar to that once, a long time ago.
We need to E-mail these groups pics of the trash along the US-Mexican border. Of coarse they would blame the wrong people for it.
As far as the whales go, I don’t see any valid reason to kill them. There are enough other things to eat.
Since when have safety regulations, anti-terror laws and restraining orders stopped these people. They think that their cause exempts them from law, order, peaceable assembly, and such.
Jerks!
Check that.
Smelly hippie Jerks!
A Hero rises!
Does the CLIT Commander know abou this?
Obviously they do not live where I do….come try that stunt in my neighborhood…
“We gather today in rememberance of our dearly departed eco-moron, whose terroristic hijincks have come to their final, logical conclusion….”
Show up in a mask in the middle of the night? You are going to get aerated. And I will get a medal from the mayor.
They are wastes of perfectly good carbon. Morons.
Did they win an Oscar?
Madchef (#5) – I do not exactly have whale blubber on tonight’s menu either, but….
The Japanese culture has been hunting and eating whales for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years. Just because you and I choose to eat other things does not make eating whales wrong. Now, hunting a species to extinction? Wrong. But that issue has supposedly been addressed, and whale populations have increased dramatically in the past two decades. As long as the harvest is done in an ecologically sustainable amount, they should be left alone.
Everyone has to stand together against these zealots. Just because this time you think it is “not about you” does not mean that next time they will be going after something near and dear to your heart.
Madchef. You may have a point. I know some people who have eaten whale, and we not impressed. Blubber is all fat, and not the good fat. However, there are those in Japan, and the rest of the world, who have more dollars than sense, so there is a market for whale meat.
I don’t think a lawsuit will do the trick. I think these people need a vacation in a nice sunny locale.
Hmmm, how does Gitmo sound people? Just think…running your feet thru the sand, 3 squares a day, a nice bug free cot, great conversations with the other “guests”. Why what more could you ask for?
The Japanese should shoot a stingray at the heart of the Steve Irwin
Forgive me for the tastless pun I could’nt help myself.
The Judge should sentence the ones breaching airport security to being strapped to the tail of a 777 for a taxi period of one hour.
And the animal rights terrorist should be sentenced to working in a slaughter house for a one month period.
Maroons all.
You know sooner or later I would not be surprised if the Japanese send a submarine to put a torpedo into the hull of those greenpeace jerks. I don’t approve what the Japanese do but still this is getting ridiculous
What fuel does the Steve Irwin run on? Diesel perhaps?
Hmmm… Put the animal rights terrorists and environmental wackos in with the Islamic terrorists. That’ll go over well.
With apologies to George Carlin, put it on Pay per View. That would make Gitmo self-sustaining.
The anti whaleing crowd is playing very loose and dangerous. The definately do not understand the law of the sea. I wouldn’t be surprised is a jap sub pops up on them and sinks them. In an action to protect the whaleing fleet from terrorists.
The animal rights activists … hmmmm. I think we should post their pictures , home addresses and phone numbers on line for all to see. Then wonder how fast they call the cops when they are woken in the middle of the night to megaphones and curseing. If their homes are broke into and deastroyed.
As for the idiots who climbed upon the jet. LOL. Someone should turn the jet engines on and watch them get sucked away.
WOW! Are these real names? There are some sick “people” in the world.
The question I want to know is:
Is there a Mosquito Liberation Front? Mosquito’s are animals too and are deserving of rights just like other animals!
/sarc – maybe
There are times when it takes all of my self control not to drive to the HW of Code Pink, wolf down a BigMac and some fries, light up a stogie while wearing a fur coat over my Navy Dress Blues. Oh and I’d bring some pepper spray and some water balloons filled with paint for “self defense.” I’ve about reached my limit.
I wish the airline had the nads to fire that plane up and take it for a 100MPH taxi spin around the airport.
If they want to be Darwin fodder, let’s let ‘em have it. If they were able to hang on after that, tell them they owe the airline $100 for the ride.
It’s funny how many on the evironmental/animal rights movement want humans to just go away, or give up things like housing or electricity or heat…but they never seem willing to walk the walk. Especially folks in the “voluntary human extinction” movement.
ROFL
With you all the way EQ!!!
The problem with this people is the fact that politicians and the MSM condone this action. The MSM does that by printing everything that they do, without condemnation. The politicans do that by listening to them and submitting bills to reinforce their actions. All this does is encourage them to even more outrage. They claim free speech, yet, except no responsibility for such a right. Like a lot of radicals, they want all the entitlements/rights, yet none of the responsibities that come with it. Sea Shepherd should be prosecuted for trespassing. Yet, they laugh. ULCA should treat them like the shooters at the colleges. If they come on with molotov cocktails, bombs, they get shot! Restraining orders? What the heck is that?? “Be good people now and be nice.” You have got to be kidding!
Gosh darn, those lo-jack guys are clever in where they hide those things.
letget said:
Well, the ones at the airport are Brits. Can you say Nanny-State Socialism? So probably the British tax payers are indirectly fund these ne’er do wells.
I seem to remember an article not too long ago about the Sea Shepherds engaging in what were, basically, acts of terrorism on the open seas by ramming Japanese whaling ships with a vessel specially modified for the job.
The nuts at Heathrow have shown a basic failure in airport security.
The news article on the UCLA groups admits that there are acts of terrorism being perpetrated.
Seems to me that all three problems can be rectified with the proper application superior firepower.
Actually, the Voluntary Human Extinction movement is real…right now it deals with not reproducing (and something tells me they won’t want to keep it “voluntary” for long)…but you know suicide is right around the corner.
Heck (and I wish I could find this post), but someone on Townhall.com basically said we should shut down power, heat, and medical care and live according to “survival of the fittest”. If you get sick, or injured, you’re left to die – all to save the planet!
I just read on Foxnews.com that we’re all going to die anyway…in a billion years. Talk about massive global warming! Al Gore is clutching his chest, and Hollywood just went into mourning, I guess. Expect dozens of disaster movies next year. These environmentalists must be fainting and wailing. PETA wants spacecraft to send the animals to Mars. I wonder what Congress is going to pass, to slow it down to one billion, 50 years…
Some would say not unlike the invasion of Iraq then….International law and lives be damned…
On some things, the Communist way is best. You don”t see them pulling this crap in Cuba.
These must be the “grass-roots” from the previous post.I can’t wait till the day that Anna Joes,is seen in a fur coat ranting about the coming ICE AGE.Guess what?, we are going to freeze,before we fry.Of course we’ll probably starve before that.
By the way,I wonder if the Georgia Guidestones were financed by Soros?Just a thought.
Let us toast the last useful military action by France!
First you have to have an ecomomy that is strong enough to have something to lose – either through lawsuit blackmail or by rapant disssention.
Second you have to have a newsmedia that thrives on blmaing your country first for all of the world’s ills.
Lastly, they don’t have Al Gore.
Eventually, someone else will find it really funny to watch these people swim back home.
Take my word for it if someone offers you Muktuk, do not eat it. It’s like Ex-Lax on steroids.
Here in Arizona we have the Castle Doctrine Law. You step on my property with a bomb it’s the last thing you will ever do as we like to celebrate diversity, .38 sp, 9mm, .357, .44, .45, 12 ga…
True, TexasTiger, but you know…one group I wouldn’t mind having by my side in a scrape, is the FFL. Give them a mission and they’ll do it. One group that France has produced that any military man would respect.
As was illustrated in the last “Bourne” movie, someone needs to activate the “asset.”
Why don’t these human hating idiots just take care of their disgust for the rest of the human race by drinking deep of the cyanide laced kool-aid, after all the mother ship is waiting for them.
The Sixth Annual International Eat A Tasty Animal for PETA (EATAPETA) Day is March 15.
Thanks for the tip aunursa.Since I’ll probably be celebrating St. Patricks Day on the 14th,I’ll be craving extra protien to ease the hangover.LOL
So Heathrow needs to expand. That’s probably because the airport is too backed up as it is and a third runway is needed to thin the congestion, as well as prepare for future traffic demands. This would help get flights on the ground and/or in the air faster. Reducing the time sitting with the engines running waiting to take off and reducing the time circling to land would equal lower use of fuel and less excess exhaust. But, asking those protesters to understand that would be a little too difficult for their pea brains.
Virgin Air with their eco coconut oil fuel! I loved the Drudge headline, airline fueled by nuts!
I had an enviro-nut give me a hard time about duck hunting once. She asked, “How can you shoot a beautiful bird like that?” I asked her if there was a good raw bar around. She said there was. I told her I love oysters (I hate them actually but was baiting her). She volunteered she “loves them”. I asked her if she liked them raw – on the half-shell. She said yes with enthusiasm. I had her hook, line and sinker. “So, let me get the straight. You will take a living creature, slurp it out of its shell, chew it up and gulp the remains into a vat of stomach acid. That is okay with you?” Silent rage is the best rage!!!
Save the oysters, slurp a human!!!
LOL
OK. Let’s just stop using animals in testing and research to develop new drugs and cures for disease. Since we have a group of people so passionate about saving animals from the laboratory, I am certain that they would volunteer to take the place of those animals. The added benefit is that it would speed new drugs and cures to market by going directly to human tests. Problem solved.
The most troublesome thing in the article was the nuts who climbed on the plane at Heathrow. In this post 9/11 world, first, how did they manage to breach security, and second, why are they still alive?
We must be close to the same neck of the woods, Watcher. The might walk in but they will have to be carried out.
I wonder if that would leave a carbon footprint?
I like that, EQ! LOL
Do you even think about how things are going to sound, before you blurt them out, sausage?
The comedian Brad Stine has some material about environmental zealots that I liked on his Put a Helmet On DVD. I remember one of his segments talks about the enviro-nuts running around screaming about the beautiful dolphins being caught in the commercial tuna nets.
His view is, “The dolphins are getting caught in the tuna nets! Yeah, what about all the TUNA getting caught in the tuna nets?!”
That may not be an exact quote. But, I am too tired to put the DVD in right now and get it word for word. I guess the tuna aren’t cute enough for them.
There is such a thing as too much freedom.
Exterminating species needlessly is not funny, especially ones as intelligent and beautiful as whales. How odd that people that believe in the sanctity of life care nothing about preserving the species of life that share the planet with us, sustain us, and improve the quality of our lives. Some people believe that sustaining, learning from, and enjoying nature without destroying it is more important and rewarding than – say – watching Nascar drivers drive in circles, wasting energy and other resources and polluting the air.
I agree with you about items 2 and 3, anti- airport-runway and animal-testing zealots.
There are some of us who are “environmentalists” too; except we don’t let emotion take over and rule our opinions/lives. We face the reality of the world. I love nature, backpacking trips, hiking in parks, observing animals and identifying plants. Some parks, I contribute money, every year. But, you won’t see me out waving hugh banners for the cameras, spitting in your face, and disobeying laws. As far as beauty goes, who’s to say what is beautiful in nature and what is not? Want to stop the whaling? Get at the market, not the suppliers. When it becomes unprofitable, then it dies away. Attacking the suppliers and leaving the market to thrive, is a useless effort, except to get your face on tv…which is the real purpose. Let’s don’t get hypocritical about Nascar. This is the type of thinking that states what I do is okay. What you do, isn’t. Think about Nascar, when you go out to your car and crank the engine over to go 75mph in a 55mph zone that burns 25% more gas. I have nothing against protecting resources/nature. I’m against those who use it as a way to fulfill an otherwise useless life to make one feel important. That, my friends, is the real reason for extremism. Take away the cameras and the MSM, and they fade away into nothing.
Ever read Lee Harris’s essay on Al Qaeda’s Fantasy Ideology?
I think a lot of these “activists” are out of the same mold, it’s just that they are acting out a slightly different fantasy. Heroes Of The Cause, just a different cause.
1. graysonret:
Agree with you that the FFL are a formidable force. With any luck, Sarkozy may unleash them where they are needed.
2. This may be the time to pay back that “solid” we owe the Japanese.
Seven years ago the USS Greeneville sank a Japanese fishing vessel, the Ehime Maru off Hawaii. I say we give the Japanese navy a shot at the Steve Irwin.
Nah — as long as you do not embalm them, they make pretty good fertilizer. If you use a wood chipper, you can usually fertilize your whole garden with just one of them. Just spread them in a thin layer, and then make sure you turn the soil, or the aroma will make your eyes water in a few days. See? Recycling can be good for the environment and good for your soul.
behiker, they expect to stop all aviation, not just jam the gears. It’s like here in the Twin Cities. The eco-nuts deliberately refused to add road lanes to the beltway causing huge traffic jams over time. This is supposed to force you onto public transport. “You will comply!” They are nothing more than deluded fascists (I think that’s may be redundant).