PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd should cough up the $1.5 million needed to replace the
anti-whaling ship Ady Gil, which was "rammed" by Japanese whalers, the
Australian Greens said.
Leader Bob Brown also wants the Federal Government to send an Australian navy
ship to the Southern Ocean to police the conflict zone.
Sea Shepard's futuristic light-weight vessel the Ady Gil had its bow sheared off
in a collision with the Japanese whaler's ship Shonan Maru 2 yesterday.
"Kevin Rudd should be replacing that ship," Senator Brown told Fairfax Radio
Network.
"(And) I think a naval ship should be down there. A whale observation ship, a
naval ship, would have stopped that behaviour.
"We would not have seen a Japanese ship ramming the Ady Gil and ripping the
front off."
Senator Brown said federal Labor had failed to do its job in the remote
Antarctic waters, leaving protest organisations to spend millions of dollars to
try to disrupt the Japanese slaughter.
"These are Australian waters," he said.
"Australia has not only a right but an obligation to be policing them.
"Instead of that it (the Government) has left it to the whaling fleet to be in
charge and calling the shots."
Greenpeace Australia has also called on the Federal Government to send a vessel
to observe any future conflict.
Greenpeace chief executive Linda Selvey said Greenpeace vessels had been rammed
by Japanese whaling ships in the past.
"Having an independent observer would have been very useful (in proving fault),"
she said.
"Also, because it is very dangerous waters, it provides an additional safety
measure."
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ipvdBnU8F8
- KRudd at his finest.
"The Labour Party is corrupt beyond redemption!"
- Labour hasbeen Mark Latham in a moment of honest clarity.
"This is the recession we had to have!"
- Paul Keating explaining why he gave Australia another Labour recession.
"Silly old bugger!"
- Well known ACTU pisspot and sometime Labour prime minister Bob Hawke
responding to a pensioner who dared ask for more.
"By 1990, no child will live in poverty"
- Bob Hawke again, desperate to win another election.
"A billion trees ..."
- Borke, pissed as a newt again.
"Well may we say 'God save the Queen' because nothing will save the governor
general!"
- Egotistical shithead and pompous fuckwit E.G. Whitlam whining about his
appointee for Governor General John Kerr.
"SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU DUMB CUNT!"
- FlangesBum on learning the truth about Labour's economic capabilities.
"I don't care what you fuckers think!"
- KRudd the KRude Rat at his finest again.
"We'll just change it all when we get in."
- Garrett the carrott
Fair enough, I go along with poofter bob down. Let heavie kevie pay
for a new one, out of his own pocket, not the pockets of Australian
taxpayers. maybe bob down would like to dip into his own pocket as
well.
I saw the footage of the so called 'ramming' on TV. In heavy seas the
whaler lurched maybe 3 degrees to port.
Even if it hadn't of turned, the weird little greenpeace speedboat
would probably have been hit.
KRudd needs to stay away from this hype.
Why not, at least they are doing something.
Australians like to make a lot of noise about border protection and saving
the whales but at the end of the day the government is too gutless to do
anything about it.
They continued hosing them after they had been hit.
The Japs have no regard for life.
Who? The Japs?
> Australians like to make a lot of noise about border protection and saving
> the whales but at the end of the day the government is too gutless to do
> anything about it.
Labour are a spineless lot. Started with Shitlam and East Timor. Went through to
ol' jelly back (Borke) and Cheating was no better.
The dislike of whaling is purely a cultural phenomenon. Hindus don't like
cows being killed, but I bet most Australians would take a dim view of
Indians attempting to blockade or damage Australian refrigerated cargo ships
carrying export beef. Or some tribe thinking that tuna are somehow special,
and harassing Australian commercial fishermen.
Sure, have a soft spot for whales, or cows, or tuna, or whatever animal you
think is cute, but don't expect that people from other cultures should or
will care about your cultural biases, or change their behaviour because you
think the animals they are killing are cute.
OK, but, when are the Japs going to drop their "Research" bullshit ?
Presumably when the IWC regulations add "lunch" to their list of permitted
reasons for harvesting whales.
They are in our waters killing our whales living in a sanctuary which we in
Australia have deemed an area worth protecting.
The Japs have no business being there, fullstop.
Most Japanese don't even eat whalemeat, this is more about the Japanese
culture of flipping the world the bird and cruelty then it is about a
cultural desire to eat whalemeat.
Howard the coward did nothing to stop the fucking Japs either, idiot.
He never promised to, fuckwit, unlike that retard KRudd!
Why do the Japanese travel from Japan to the southern ocean to
"research" whales? would it not be far easier to chuck a left and head
north ? I'd be pretty sure there be whales up there captain. I wouldn't
have thought it would be a cultural thing... Hunting whales in the
southern ocean for japanese sailors in wooden boats all those years ago
?
So if they wanna eat whale, why not just got north and get them like the
flamin Norwegians etc.
Er, it's NOT out territory you moron. The are in the Southern Ocean.
If they were whaling in our waters, we'd stop them. They aren't doing
anything illegal. How would YOU like it if some eco-terrorist
organisation tried to stop you going out in your little tinny aand
fishing for flathead or bream by damaging your boat and trying to
throw acid over you? You'd be pretty pissed I bet. This is no
different.
And WW2 wasn't enough of a clue? :-)
If someone was killed it may have made some difference in this case. But
then again a person being killed when the French sank the Rainbow Warrior
had no affect on them.
MrT.
So the point of his anti Labor rant was what exactly?
Let's face it they're all a bunch of spineless pricks, only there to look
after the interests of themselves, big business and the rich (who they need
to help keep them in government so they can continue to look after
themselves!)
MrT.
Wouldn't it be better to replace the Ady Gil with another boat?
I'm not even sure if Rudd can swim.