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Keelhaul the Scurvy Dogs

Ravenwood - 01/17/08 06:00 AM

So a pair of maggot infested Australian hippies attacked a Japanese research vessel they claim was illegally killing whales.

Australian citizen Benjamin Potts and British citizen Giles Lane, both members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, jumped on board the Yushin Maru No. 2 Tuesday to deliver a letter saying the vessel was violating international law and Australian law by killing whales.

But apparently the Japanese weren't violating international law. The Australians were. According to the often reliable Wikipedia:

Maritime piracy, according to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) of 1982, consists of any criminal acts of violence, detention, or depredation committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or aircraft that is directed on the high seas against another ship, aircraft, or against persons or property on board a ship or aircraft.

To me, forcefully boarding a ship at high seas without the Captain's permission sounds a lot like piracy. And the penalty for piracy is (or used to be) death.

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The hippies are off the boat.
http://www.japannewsreview.com/society/international/20080118page_id=3740
Apparently they had a jolly good time on the ship.
and they had brought toothpaste, change of clothes and video cameras onboard. School trip?

Posted by: Martin at January 17, 2008 12:00 PM

Depending on where it happened, the law shifts (plus, if the boat was under a Japanese flag, they may have different laws.) They should have simply thrown the rats overboard. I know that oil tankers turn firehoses on these vermin when they try to board, unless they have those nifty sonic pain guns that the cruiseliner off the coast of Somalia used on those pirates.

Posted by: Phelps at January 17, 2008 2:40 PM

It's legal to use a .50 BMG in whaling.

I recommend all Japanese whalers carry one. And if they are attacked by activists... well, a few holes in the boat shouldn't be too dangerous.

I suppose they could use some blank rounds for warning shots. Or tracers. That should really warn them.

And, while I'm dreaming, a gatling gun would be good, too.

Posted by: Alcibiades McZombie at January 18, 2008 1:57 AM