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Two words: Sea Shepard.

I respect the whole "save the whales" thing, but "save the whales, kill the whalers" is just plain despicable. Sea Shepard is an eco-terrorist group Oops, sorry: I mean "Maritime Wildlife Conservation Committee" that defends arbitrary marine life by (a) boarding whaling vessels and killing the crew or (b) attacking and trapping whaling ships and forcing them out, leaving them to run out of fuel and supplies. Either way, they declare their acts of violence as lawful ones, and no government (with the slight exception of Japan, denying them permission to certain ports and refusing to supply them) has tried to prevent them from doing so, because they're so far out of reach of any naval force.

Though I respect their views on conserving wildlife, I find their hypocrisy to be appalling, and I believe that action is required against them. For example, the US should stop focusing on hunting down the fake "terrorists" fighting for their freedom in the Middle East, and begin tracking this very real threat down. Then again, the idiots in the bush (I refuse to capitalize his name) administration and the braindead masses refuse to drop the image of a "terrorist" being a bearded man clad in a turban and robe, burning a US flag and shooting an AK into the air, rather than people who raid whaling ships and slaughter the crew because they like animals.

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