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- From: prb@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Botts)
- Subject: Re: Notch another one up for the Greennazis
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- References: <1992Nov12.221451.5280@inel.gov> <1992Nov13.070920.552@wam.umd.edu> <JMC.92Nov13074101@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:00:48 GMT
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- In article <JMC.92Nov13074101@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >After the ships get out in the open Atlantic, I would favor the
- >Japanese saying, "If you don't stay away, we will sink you." Since
- >the Greenpeace ships are charter Dutch seagoing tugs (ah, what
- >money will do for a cause), and their crews did not sign up to
- >die for Greenpeace, they will leave when threatened. Greenpeace
- >will huff and puff, but that would end the matter for now and
- >the Greenpeace publicity machine would have to find some other
- >material.
- >--
-
- Such a scenario will only occur in the wet dreams of GReenpeace's
- executive director and fundraising director. It would be the greatest
- thing to happen to the group in terms of fundraising since the French
- secret service blew up their ship a few years back. Unlike the French
- government, I am reasonably sure that the Japanese are not that stupid.
-