PHOTO OF A PHAT PHILANDERING PHONEY PHUCKING PHARCE!
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the environmental group best known for their extreme and often controversial tactics used in the fight against Japan’s whaling fleet, said today that they have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to lift an injunction barring it from harassing the Japanese whalers.
gCaptain reported in December that the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that the anti-whaling non profit is prohibited from physically attacking, or approaching within 500 yards of any Institute of Cetacean Research vessels navigating on the open sea. The ruling overturned a March 2012 ruling from U.S. District Judge Richard Jones in Seattle, who denied the Institute’s initial request for an injunction on the grounds that it would not succeed in trial.
During a National Press Club briefing, Charles Moore, the attorney representing Sea Shepherd, said that the three-sentence injunction issued in December surprised the group because it was issued without warning or a chance to argue in front of the judges and without being requested by Japan’s Institute for Cetacean Research.
The injunction has had little impact as far as Sea Shepherd’s most recent campaign, called Operation Zero Tolerance, as it applies only to Sea Shepherd U.S., where as ‘Zero Tolerance’ is technically under Sea Shepherd Australia, a separate entity. But the injunction did name Sea Shepherd’s founder, Paul Watson, which forced him to step down from his post as president of the society and has so far prevented him from participating in the Southern Ocean antics this season.
“All of these entities have picked up the mission,” said Scott West, an investigations operative for Sea Shepherd. “Sea Shepherd U.S. is complying with, albeit ridiculous, the injunction. … We’re not going to be in violation of federal law.”
What happens from here is anyone’s guess, so once again it looks like we’ll just have to stay tuned…
I say we get a platoon together and infiltrate this bunch. We can sabotage the ships by pretending to be as inept as the normal crew. It shouldn’t be to hard don’t bathe, wear sandals, tie dye, eat vegan and act incredibly naive and stupid. Man the things I could do below decks to cause havoc. I don’t know if I could see the mission through though. There are several of them id like to punch on sight just from seeing how douchey they act on TV. I might get tossed prior to departure. Of course I might be able to keep it in check long enough if a certain someone took up the cause and happened to be aboard…
[QUOTE=Fraqrat;98845]I say we get a platoon together and infiltrate this bunch. We can sabotage the ships by pretending to be as inept as the normal crew. It shouldn’t be to hard don’t bathe, wear sandals, tie dye, eat vegan and act incredibly naive and stupid. Man the things I could do below decks to cause havoc. I don’t know if I could see the mission through though. There are several of them id like to punch on sight just from seeing how douchey they act on TV. I might get tossed prior to departure. Of course I might be able to keep it in check long enough if a certain someone took up the cause and happened to be aboard…[/QUOTE]
Capital idea! You’re my go to guy Fraq for clandestine ops but you must keep Xena off the team. To be in such presence would render me a drooling useless fool (not that I’m not normally).
To be honest, I am not surprised that Lucy Lawless isn’t with Sea Shepard since she is a Greenpeace gal and there is no love between them and that miserable arrogant asshole Watson. Hard to imagine me saying good for Greenpeace but I am.
would sure love to scale those beautiful mountains of hers!
