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- From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy
- Subject: Re: Notch another one up for the Greennazis
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 14:05:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.165144.11105@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> dyrda@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Richard Dyrda) writes:
- >>In article <56263@dime.cs.umass.edu> yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
- >>The poor French and Japanese governments, bullied by that great big
- >>Greenpeace with all its money and publicity. And all the French government
- >>has to protect itself is an army and teams of terrorists to put mere
- >>explosive bombs in greenpeace boats. What's a bomb or two, or a destroyer
- >>or two compared with the awful power of Greenpeace's "publicity" machine.
- >>Why won't Greepeace pick on someone it's own size, maybe the Salvation
- >>Army or the Girl Scouts, instead of this shameless thuggery towards the
- >>helpless French and Japanese governments?
- >
- > By using the above logic why then didn't the Japanese or French escorts
- >just put a 135mm shell into the Greenpeace ship instead of boarding it and
- >forcing it to veer away? Greenpeace uses countries non-violent orders to
- >their extreme and press these escorts to the limit. Maybe one day they'll
- >learn that these aren't unarmed fishing vessels.
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- The surviving relatives of the poor fellow that the French murdered in
- Australia might disagree with your assessment of the French government.
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- In any event, it's rather humorous to see
- all these tears for the victimization of the governments
- of two of the worlds most powerful nations when confronted with unarmed
- protesters. Many anti-environmentalists seem to live in an inverse reality
- where General Electric, the government of France, and the US government are
- weak powerless victims of the mighty citizen lobbying organizations.
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- > Who knows maybe the Japanese were getting even for all the ramming Greenpeace
- >has done to their merchant fishing fleet. Nobody said the Japanese didn't
- >like revenge!
- It is the Sea Shepherds who ram Japanese trawling
- ships, and Sea Shepherds split from Greenpeace on the issue of whether
- such "enforcement" tactics were a good idea.
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