Whale Wars Heat Up

I’m not talking about that horrible horrible show.  I’m talking about the real life events that are actually going on between Japanese Whalers and insane anti-whaling people.  Yes, they are insane and their recent actions have made quite a bit of press here in Japan.

So this past week the Japanese media has been talking about how three Japanese whalers suffered injuries from acid attacks by the members of the Sea Shepherd.  Acid and lasers actually.  While the activists claim that their attacks were not harmful, only stinky, it seems as if the Japanese whalers were in fact injured.  Here is what Fuji TV reported.

The best part is when they deny throwing the acidic bottles at the whalers, and then in the next clip can clearly be seen throwing bottles onto the other ship.

See but it gets better.  Seems that one of the activists snuck aboard a Japanese whaling ship and tried to present a bill for a sunk ship.   He was then arrested.  Go figure.  Again, here is how the Japanese press is reporting it.

In case you’d not seen, the ship for which the bill was referring to was the multi-million dollar ‘Stealth’ ship that they built to help track the Japanese whaling fleet.  Only that it was quickly destroyed when the very small ’stealth’ ship apparently tried to ram a much much larger Japanese ship.

Listen, I’m as much for the protection of whales as the next person, but the actions these guys are taking is completely wrong.  With all the money they’re spending on boats and negative press coverage they could be launching a media campaign within Japan.  With the new government looking at cutting the ‘Whale Research’ program completely, and with the very obvious fact that whale meat contains dangerously high levels of mercury, a media blitz might actually enact some real change.