Seeing as the Japanese are whaling in that area Illegally they have no leg to stand on IMHO. Sea Shepherd are the only people out there willing to call out the Japanese on their activities.
That and the use of the word 'Terrorist' is just bandied around way too often and it lacks power especially when misused for dramatic effect. Terrorists used to blow shit up, shoot people in the face or torture people. Now all you have to do is worry a few sheep and you're a 'terrorist'.
Fuck the Whalers, +1 to Sea Shepherd.
Fuck the sea shepherd. Anyone that is willing to risk the lives of humans of that of an animal is an idiot.
Also, the act of one party or group doing something "illegal" is not grounds to allow someone else to do an illegal thing in return.
The Japanese are well within their rights to detain the guy and take him back and put him on trial. He ILLEGALLY boarded another vessel. Now he has to pay the consiquences. To bad this isn't pre WW2 Japan. They would have taken care of the problem already.
Why don't the whalers just kill the protesters? Run them over with the ship, shoot them, whatever. Could they even be held accountable in international waters?
