JAPANESE ICR INSTITUTE FOR CETACEAN RESEARCH KYODO SENPAKU WHALING - SEA SHEPHERD - GREENPEACE INFO




JAPANESE ICR INSTITUTE FOR CETACEAN RESEARCH KYODO SENPAKU WHALING - SEA SHEPHERD - GREENPEACE INFO

Commentary by Captain Paul Watson - The Greenpeace Foundation has been very irresponsible in distracting public attention away from the issue of international illegal whaling by focusing on internal corruption within the Japanese whaling industry.
Of course there is corruption within the whaling industry - it’s a criminal organization.
It would be surprising if there were no corruption. And why does Greenpeace think it is their duty to expose petty theft by whalers from their bosses?

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has been battling outlaw whaling operations in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary for years. The problem we are combating is simple. Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean is illegal and Sea Shepherd is an anti-poaching organization. The Japanese whaling industry is targeting endangered and threatened whale populations inside an internationally established whale sanctuary in violation of the regulations of the International Whaling Commission and the global moratorium on commercial whaling. Japan is in violation of the Antarctic Treaty and the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITE, The Canberra Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) and is operating in contempt of an Australian Federal Court Order prohibiting whaling within the Australian Antarctic Territorial waters.

Instead of focusing on these international laws and regulations, Greenpeace has chosen to investigate internal corruption within the whaling industry.

Towards this end, two Greenpeace members in Japan broke into a private building and removed a package of whale meat that was in shipment from a crewmember on the Nisshin Maru to a specific address in Japan.
According to the L.A. Times, "one of the alleged thieves Junichi Sato said that no matter what, they achieved their goal of bringing the alleged whale meat scandal to public light.

"We achieved that," he said. Then he added softly: "Perhaps we overachieved."

But what did they achieve? The whaling company responded by saying no crime has been committed and that the individual crewmembers are allowed to take some whale meat for their own use. The "scandal" that Greenpeace was trying to bring to light was in fact never a scandal at all.
In response to this action, Japanese authorities charged Toru Suzuki and Junichi Sato with trespass and theft.

And by doing so, Japan handed Greenpeace the perfect excuse to pull out of direct engagement with the Japanese whaling fleet to focus on the defence of the two Japanese activists.

Greenpeace was searching for a way to withdraw after the humiliating expose of their Antarctic campaign of 2006/2007 documented by the BBC in the film Battleship Antarctica.

Suzuki and Sato offered the opportunity for a much less expensive campaign and one that would bring the issue home to Japan itself. Towards this end Greenpeace began to mobilize their significant global membership to engage in a campaign to present these two Japanese Greenpeace members as martyrs for the whales, persecuted by their own government for daring to oppose whaling by their own countrymen.
The only problem was that Suzuki and Sato were not opposing illegal whaling activities by the Japanese whaling fleet. They were trying to expose internal corruption and theft by employees of the whaling company.

They were acting more like self-appointed Pinkerton detectives working for the whaling company than as activists opposing illegal whaling.
The stated goal of Greenpeace was, and is to expose the Japanese whalers as corrupt. The only problem is that the world already knows that Japanese whaling is illegal and the entire whaling operation is corrupt.

What Greenpeace is doing would be the equivalent of the FBI investigating internal corruption within the Mafia. The only person that could possibly benefit from such an investigation would be the Godfather. And whereas the Godfather would reject the FBI findings in favour of policing their own, the whaling bosses have rejected the Greenpeace effort in favour of unity amongst common thieves.
Of course there is corruption within the Japanese whaling industry. The Union that represents the crew of the whaling ships is a Yakusa controlled Union and the Yakusa is the Japanese equivalent of the Mafia.

The question is then what is Greenpeace hoping to gain by exposing criminal activity by whalers against the whaling company. By doing so Greenpeace is distracting from the real issue which is the violation of international conservation law by the Japanese whaling fleet.
Sea Shepherd is more concerned with the theft of whales directly from the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. We remain focused on the criminals on the top of the criminal operation. It is simply bad policing to pick off the minions pocketing a few yen at the bottom of the racket. We have our sights set on Joji Morashita and the bosses, not on some poor swab with a flensing knife wading in blood and gore on the deck of the Nisshin Maru. Knock out the big boys and the gangster punks will follow.

The difference between Greenpeace and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is that Greenpeace is a protest organization and Sea Shepherd is an interventionist organization. Sea Shepherd intervenes exclusively against illegal activities. In other words we are an anti-poaching organization.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has an unblemished record of never having injured any person and never having had a felony crime conviction. We cannot justify committing a felony in pursuit of our activities. That also would be bad policing.
What has allegedly occurred in the Suzuki and Sato case appears to be the committing of felony trespass and mail theft. These two men have of course not been convicted of these crimes and they may well be acquitted and I hope they are acquitted, but there can be no excuse for Greenpeace to justify the action as legitimate. Greenpeace admits that the warehouse was broken into, and they admit that property in transit was removed.

And this from the same organization that publicly condemns Sea Shepherd tactics as unacceptable. In other words, breaking and entry and theft are justified whereas according to Greenpeace the tossing of rotten butter onto a whaling ship is an act of "eco-terrorism."
Yet there have not been any charges of "eco-terrorism" against Sea Shepherd primarily because there is actually no such crime as "eco-terrorism."

Tossing rotten butter onto a deck of a whaling ship is at the most a misdemeanour IF it were to happen in national waters.
This week the Los Angeles Times ran an article about Suzuki and Sato entitled A bitter face-off in Japan over whaling.
Aside from the fact that the article by John M. Glionna was full of blatant errors of fact, it also misled the public by stating that the "The case has shifted the front lines of the war over Japan's whaling program from the frigid waters off Antarctica, where 100 whales are culled by Japan each winter, to the streets of Tokyo and the court of public opinion."
The front lines of the war over Japan’s whaling program remains in Antarctica where the Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin has been disrupting illegal Japanese whaling operations for the last three months. Where Glionna states that 100 whales are culled by Japan, the actual number is 935 Minke plus 50 Fin whales and they are illegally slaughtered - not culled.

This article appears to have been lifted from a Greenpeace media release. Greenpeace has been using their powerful public relations machine to convince the public that defending two men charged with felony crimes for stealing whale meat from the mail represents the vanguard of the movement to stop whaling in the Southern Ocean.

The reality is that it is simply a way for Greenpeace to back out of the costly, ineffective and embarrassing campaigns they have mounted in past years in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is speaking the language that the Japanese whaling industry understands and that language is economic. It all comes down to profit and loss and Sea Shepherd has been negating profits from whaling for four straight years through physical disruption of their illegal operations directly in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary.
The front lines of the Whale Wars remain in the Southern Ocean - not in Japan and not in some Tokyo courthouse where the two Greenpeacers are to be tried for trespass and theft.

The Times article stated without bothering to consult with Sea Shepherd that: "The group Sea Shepherd has been accused of tactics such as firing acid, mud, nails and water cannons at the vessels."

In fact, Sea Shepherd has never fired any of these things at the whalers. We don’t have water cannons. It is the Japanese vessels that fire water cannons at the Sea Shepherd crew. Not a single nail, or a speck of mud have ever been fired at a whaling ship. And as for acid, this is merely a spin by the whalers by referring to rotten butter (which stinks) as an acid. It is of course an acid but the spin is meant to conjure up the image of highly corrosive and disfiguring sulfuric acid. Rotten butter is butyric acid, as orange juice is citric acid and milk is lactic acid. The reality is that beer is more acidic than rotten butter.

This article however seeks to perpetuate the misleading spin by both the whalers and by Greenpeace that Sea Shepherd utilizes violent tactics.
We don’t. And we also don’t steal property from the mail.

The L.A. Times article also states:
Japanese officials say they are the target of emotional propaganda.
"Critics say the whale is a special animal to be protected. We'd like to treat it exactly like any other wildlife hunted worldwide, such as deer or kangaroos," (Joji) Morishita said.-FALSE.

"What would the Americans say if India suddenly said they should stop eating beef because the cow is special to their culture?" he asked. "That is what is happening to us."-FALSE.

This attempt to cast the Japanese as victims of cultural chauvinism is bogus and shallow. The whales are indeed special because they are listed as "endangered" and "threatened" and this designation is "special" by law. The killing of wildlife is also not legally allowed within the boundaries of a wildlife park of sanctuary. Morishita displays his very weak moral position by even attempting to make these comparisons.
If India were to demand that Americans stop eating cows because they were endangered and surviving in specially designated cow sanctuaries they would be acting responsibly as conservationists. This has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with international conservation law.

Source: Los Angeles Times - DISPATCH FROM TOKYO - A bitter face-off in Japan over whaling By John M. Glionna February 14, 2009

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

Eating whale meat, is poisonous. It is not like a cow at all. Whale meat is toxic. It is contaminated. Whale meat is tainted with levels of Mercury, Polychlorinated Biphenyls, and Lead. Eating whale meat can cause you to give birth to children withe birth defects. Eating Whale meat tainted with mercury is akin to eating lead paint chips. It stunts cognitive capacity. Those that eat whale meat get neurological damage, it damages your brain tissues, it lowers your IQ, and stunts intelligence. It also causes organ damage.

What this means, is, that whalers are essentially attempting to poison Japanese people. Anyone who supports Japanese whalers is advocating the mass-poisoning of Japanese citizens. Whalers are attempting to hurt Japan, and Japanese citizens.Pro-whalers are Anti-Japanese. Anyone sticking up for whalers would be like a person sticking up for a group that sells toys covered in Lead paint to children. Any person who touts whale killers, mistakenly thinking that they are sticking up for the Japanese, are instead actually helping to continue the perpetration of mass-poisoning Japanese people.



In addition, Japanese whalers also tried to get whale meat put into childrens lunches, at school. The whaling company Kyodo Senpaku and the ICR Institute for Cetacean Research, and Japanese whalers, and anyone cheering for them, all served to facilitate poisoning Japanese children!

Warnings on contamination in Whale meat have even been issued by Japanese scientists, in Tokyo Japan, by their OWN HEALTH DEPARTMENT! The Health Department in Japan has warned of toxic mercury contamination levels in whale meat over 200 TIMES over the allowable limit! What happens when children eat this, is the mercury and methyl mercuric compounds enter the body, they proceed to the liver, other organs, and then it seeps into the brain. The children, after eating whale meat, then begin failing to perform at school, IQ begins to decrease, the person who ate whale meat becomes victim to neurological damage, liver damage, and cognitive capacity of the individual is now stunted after consuming whale meat.

NEWS: "Mercury In Whale Meat A Major Health Problem"

"ScienceDaily May 20 - Research has found Dangerous levels of mercury present in whale meat sold by illegal Japanese whalers in Japan. Japanese scientists & U.S. researchers confirm the findings point to a "major health problem" to good citizens of Japan."

"Scientists bought samples from across the country & found every single slice exceeded th limit on mercury, with some samples containing almost 200x the MAX Mercury Contamination."



What this means, is that anyone who thinks they are "helping" Japan, or "helping" Japanese people by sticking up for a tiny faction of extremist militant criminal element in Japan known as whale killers, is actually Anti-Japanese, and is helping only 1% of Japanese criminals attempt to poison 99% of the good Japanese people who don't want whaling, don't want whale meat, don't want to eat it, and don't want to have anything to do with whalers! Whalers HURT Japan. Whalers hurt their country. Whale killers, ICRWHALE, Kyodo Senpaku, and pro-whalers bring shame to Japan. Helping whalers is like someone trying to stick up for a group of priests who are conducting child offenses, thinking they are sticking up for and helping the church. NO! Whalers are not representative of good Japanese people, whalers are only a tiny tiny small faction of criminal killers in Japan. Whalers and pro-whalers are complicit in the dumbing down of Japanese children due to enticing them to eat heavy-metal contaminated meats, to get money. And whalers hurt the 99% of good Japanese people, men who whalers are enticing to purchase and eat whale meat who will now come down with liver and organ damage in their bodies from eating it. And women who will now, after eating whale meat on the urging of people siding with whalers, give birth to Japanese children with birth defects.



REPORT ON WHALE MEAT:
"The levels of mercury [in whale meat] measured by the scientists are similar to or higher than the levels in fish eaten by people in the Minamata Bay area of Japan, Endo says. The region is well known for its previous problems with mercury. In the 1950s and early 1960s, hundreds of children were born with birth defects"

Groups like Sea Shepherd are HELPING the 99% of GOOD Japanese people. Sea Shepherd protects the good Japanese people. By Captain Paul Watson and Sea Shepherd stopping whalers, Sea Shepherd is stopping 1% of criminal whalers from mass-poisoning their own Japanese citizens. So Paul Watson and Sea Shepherd are keeping whalers from poisoning Japanese children. Therefore anyone who is ANTI-JAPANESE like pro-whalers are, will naturally not like Sea Shepherd because Sea Shepherd is protecting Japanese people, stopping whale poachers, confirmed killers, whale killers, from trying to poison their children. Sea Shepherd is on the side of 99% of the people of Japan. Sea Shepherd and other organizations stopping whaling try to remove the stink of whalers from the great nation of Japan. Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace restore honor to the country, and are FOR Japan.




Whalers are against Japan. Whalers bring more stink and shame to their own nation. Whalers stand for embarassment. Whalers are considered disgusting. And anyone promoting whalers is actually the person who is casting more stink on the good name of Japan. Whereas Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd, and all great people including Japanese people who OPPOSE whaling are pro-Japan, help Japan, protect Japanese people, save Japanese children, and are on the side of 99% of the Good people of Japan. If you are a pro-whaler, then you are helping to poison and hurt Japanese people.



What this also means, is that the statements from Joji Morishita and the ICR Institute for Cetacean Research ICRWHALE are not only False, they are absurd.

ANY PRO-WHALER ATTEMPTING TO FALSELY GET YOU TO BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO STOP 1% OF WHALERS FROM EATING WHALE MEAT IS MISTAKENLY SIMILAR TO INDIA TELLING AMERICANS NOT TO EAT BEEF IS TRYING TO TRICK YOU.

IT IS MORE LIKE THAT GOOD INDIAN GENTLEMEN *HELPING* AMERICAN PEOPLE BY WARNING THEM THAT 1 SMALL CORPORATION INSIDE THEIR COUNTRY IS TRYING TO ENTICE AMERICAN CHILDREN TO EAT MEAT WHICH THAT COMPANY KNOWS IS CONTAMINATED WITH LEAD PAINT CHIPS.

That Indian gentlemen telling a US person they should NOT eat that meat, is a HERO to Americans, protecting Americans, protecting their children, etc from 1 small corrupt company they detected who is pushing things that will hurt American people.

The Japanese whalers are trying to dupe Americans now. The Japanese Whaling company and their minions, ICRWHALE, and Glenn Innwood, are using a false contrived lie trying to dupe good patriotic American people into siding with them by Falsely using some kind of ploy to appeal to some kind of "Hell no, you aren't takin my Beef away from me, you Indian foreigner" type of Japanese criminal tactic. But AMERICANS are smarter than that. Good Americans (and Canadians and Australians, and EVERYONE) know that the analogy is more like if a mob-controlled front organization set up shop inside america, and started importing tainted toys from China, and then selling those toys to poison American children. ...and then the president of that company coming out and trying to get you believe that the organization wanting to protect your child, and protect the American people from this criminal organization trying to stunt the mental growth, was somehow "taking little toys and joy away from your children" or something. This is what the mob-controlled whaling front organization is trying to dupe you into believing. Some have fallen for it. Maybe some of the people who have had their IQ reduced by having eaten the corporate entities products (contaminated whale meat). But smart Americans, and smart people from ALL OVER the world won't be fooled by this small 1-company criminal operation by a handful of corrupt whale butchers who are trying to hurt people.


Reports show In some cases the levels of mercury are 1,600 times the allowed quantities in meat for human consumption. The consumption of mercury in the quantities that exist in whale and dolphin meat can impair immune response and cause neurological damage leading to loss of coordination, vision, hearing and can produce mental retardation, especially in the young.




Oh, and in case any American reading this is not really thinking too much about it, maybe doesn't care, because it's happening in another country...well, wake up call, Americans, the Japanese whalers are not just smuggling whale meat around Japan you know. The Japanese contaminated whale meat is being smuggled into the USA and sold to American people in sushi restaurants. Whale meat is ILLEGAL in the US! The American government and US STATE DEPARTMENT CONDEMN Japanese whaling! And it is a Federal crime to import whale meat, at all, into the United States. But you already know coke and other things get in. So what do you think happens, when a company that already lies to you saying their killing and processing of whales which are brought back and consumed, is..."RESEARCH", does, when they have 100 tons of whale meat that nobody in Japan wants to eat, stuck in huge freezers all over Japan? Hmm? What do you think they do with that? How long do you think you have to wait, before the criminal mind of a whaler thinks hey, this whale meat is not selling locally here in Japan, where ELSE do you think we could get money for this stuff sitting there?..... So if you thought it just concerned somebody else, or somebody elses children, this is your wake up call. Japanese mercuric contaminated whale meat has been detected and found being brought into the US, and sold to American citizens. Often mis-labeled (on purpose) as other kinds of meat or slipped in to other products, to be ingested by.... YOU!



So, Americans, if you weren't against or concerned about whale meat before, you very well should be now. And the same goes for any one, from any country, reading this. ESPECIALLY good Japanese people. You want to be AGAINST whalers, not for them. Whalers are poisoning you, your family, your loved ones, enticing your children to eat it, slipping it into the school lunch program, and casting stink and shame onto the flag and honor of the good nation of Japan.

MOST Japanese people DO NOT eat whale meat, do NOT buy whale meat, do NOT want anything to do with whale meat! So anyone who is going around portraying themselves as being FOR whalers is actually betraying the majority of the Japanese people, hurting Japan, hurting asian people. And pro-whalers who go against groups like Sea Shepherd or Greenpeace are actually doing a disservice to SeaShepherd and Greenpeace who are protecting the Japanese people, and pro-whalers are instead sticking up for a tiny 1% faction of extremist criminal killers known as whalers.



EATING MEAT is NOT A JAPANESE CUSTOM!

Another trick that this small whaling front corporation does, is try to trick people into falsely believing somehow eating whale and meat is some part of "japanese culture" or tradition-THIS IS FALSE! The real story is it is exactly the OPPOSITE! Japan is Buddhist! Japanese people are Buddhist and Shinto. A good Japanese buddhist RESPECTS all life. Buddhism teaches honor, and respect. So Japanese people are actually very RESPECTFUL of all living things, the Japanese culture and tradition is NOT to disrespect life, torture and kill animals or otherwise! Whalers want everyone to believe that Japanese "culture" is to kill and eat meat, in reality Japanese do NOT traditionally eat meat! In fact, Buddhists are often vegetarian! Japanese hold Shinto culture to be honored, and in Shinto, spirits reside in all things, rivers, oceans, and animals. And these are respected, not garbaged and hacked up! In fact, the actual tradition in Japan is NOT eating meat. and this is the Japanese tradition for 1,200 years!

That's right! THE EATING OF MEAT WAS BANNED IN JAPANESE TRADITION AND CULTURE FOR 1,200 YEARS!

In fact, eating meat was frowned upon! It was considered shameful! And in fact, the emperor, who is regarded as a god by Japanese people, BANNED THE EATING OF MEAT! Over a thousand years ago, and the Japanese people did NOT eat meat as a culture OR a tradition for over a millenia! Japanese culture and tradition is in fact NOT eating meat. And eating meat is a violation of Japanese culture, considered shameful, looked upon as bad, it is in violation of the teachings of Buddhism, and eating meat was only practised by those who violated and offended Japanese customs and tradition. Japan traditionally ate fish, but remember a whale is NOT a fish, it is a mammal. This is what whalers want YOU and others to believe, that a whale is a fish, that eating meat is Japanese custom, it's exactly the opposite! And all good Japanese people should be mindful of this trick by whalers on you as well. GOOD Japanese people respect living things, and follow the long-standing traditions of good and kind Japanese people dating back a thousand years, and obey the wishes of the emperor who Banned eating meat.


So, who introduced eating meat to Japan? WESTERNERS did it! After Japan's loss in world war 2, it was Westerners, foreigners who came in to Japan, occupied Japan, and forced the Japanese people into eating meat! So any Japanese people reading this, and any others who *thought* you were sticking up for Japan or Japanese culture, the whalers Duped you. Japanese whalers, by claiming that eating whale meat is part of Japanese "tradition" or "culture" actually OFFEND Japanese culture! Anyone supporting whalers, touting whaling and thinking you are fighting FOR Japanese culture have been actually participating in soiling and befouling the great culture of Japan! And instead, what whalers have done, is touted a practise introduced into Japan by FOREIGNERS!



Finally, for anyone reading who is a proud member of Greenpeace, or, anyone who is a proud member of Sea Shepherd...it's time to work together. It is most beneficial, if Greenpeace work together with Sea Shepherd, and Sea Shepherd work together with Greenpeace. That is what helps the whales the most. And remember, it's not about people, the greater goal is to help the animals. So, any persons out there who are members of greenpeace, please begin working with sea shepherd and helping them. And by the same token, sea shepherd supporters, begin working with greenpeace members. Put aside differences, unite! It's not about you, it's not about any of our petty human tribulations, the higher goal here is what saves one of the most magical creatures on earth, and we all need to work together to do that. All organizations! All good people! Uniting together. Working together brings strength, and solidarity, and that is what will save the most whales. And together, a lot can be achieved. Please try. For the whales. Good people are few and far between. And we need everyone, to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves. Please give it a try.



But whatever you do, no matter what country, no matter what race, no matter what organization, you're with, with every ounce of power you have FIGHT against these despicable terrorist criminal whale butchers!


FIGHT!

Go to http://www.SEASHEPHERD.org/donate.html

and

Go to www.GREENPEACE.org and donate to either one, or BOTH of them.

Just DO something.

(Yes! That means YOU! Reading this! Don't simply close this and move on and forget. Do it now while you are thinking about it.)

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