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- From: constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Notch another one up for the Greennazis
- Keywords: the Enrico Fermi mix-master works again...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.063255.4320@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 06:32:55 GMT
- References: <1992Nov9.034442.12361@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <56222@dime.cs.umass.edu>
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- In article <56222@dime.cs.umass.edu> yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
- >>If it is shown that Greenpeace violated international law and hit the
- >>freighter, drastic action should be taken against this organization. They
- >>are no better than the "terrorists" that they are afraid of.
- >
- >Are you suggesting that the French government should increase the number
- >of unarmed Greenpeace members it murders via terrorist bombs?
-
- What I was referring to is the constant badgering by Greenpeace in territorial
- waters and the open seas. An example cited earlier was Greenpeace's
- involvement in the attempt to delay/interfere with/sabatoge a naval weapons
- test by the Navy. In that case, Greenpeace is in the wrong and should be
- charged with the international law that they defiled.
-
- *From Don Palmrose on sci.energy:
- *--------------------------------
- *International law allows for the conduct of exercises and weapons testing by
- *all of the world's navies. You have to publish the exercise and test in
- *advance giving the location and general nature of the exercise or weapon
- *testing. For the US, it must also conform to all ratified arms treaties.
- *It is also recognized by international law that every country has the right
- *to restrict vessels and aircraft from these areas especially those occuring
- *within 12 nautical miles of a country's shores.
- *
- *That's the facts and just the plain facts. Thus, if you don't like it then
- *you can make all of the silly "might is right" US military is evil comments
- *you like and you will still be wrong.
- *
- *Don Palmrose
-
- Now, in this instance, there was a collision. Greenpeace claimed that they
- will take legal action. If, in fact, it is shown that Greenpeace is in the
- wrong (which wouldn't be a first), then they should accept the punishment.
- We don't need pirates for "the environment" rampaging the open seas.
-
- I still don't see how an organization such as Greenpeace is so violently
- opposed to a technology that can reuse its own waste many times over, plus
- supply a huge amount of baseload power. How can you beat it?
-
- I don't see GP hijacking trains full of coal every week to protest the
- many thousands of deaths from fossil fuels. Oh, I suppose that wouldn't
- install the fear of nuke-u-lar deep in everyone's hearts.
-
- Tino (another environmentalist for nuclear energy)
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