That entire statement was a huge contradiction, it doesn't matter what they're doing there, or if they were breaking laws or not, fact of the matter is the big *** boat rammed the small *** boat destroying property and breaking laws themselves. Do you know why there are law enforcement? To enforce laws. Do you shoot a man dead if he kicks a dent in the side of your vehicle? No you call the police and settle it that way. Breaking one law because someone pissed you off because they were breaking the law, doesn't make you any more right than the person who pissed you off.
And like I said, I don't care what they were doing, I don't care if they deserved it or not. The boat DID ram the smaller boat on purpose that IS what happened, trying to say otherwise when there is irrefutable video evidence is admitting your will full ignorance.
Vigilantes dealing out punishment where they see fit? You do understand you just defended the Japanese boat with that argument in your previous paragraph right?
That's actually very wrong. What are they defending themselves from? The speed boat is 1/3rd the size of the bigger boat. Not to mention, if you look at the video, you can see, that NOT ONLY did the larger boat, had it kept going straight, it would have avoided hitting the smaller boat. But if it had veered left it would have missed it completely, instead it turned right and intentionally rammed the other boat, so defending itself is completely out of the question.
Sorry pal, no contradicting here. In an event of piracy (What is considered piracy is in my earlier link) the ship under attack can defend itself. Now if those ships Ady Gil and others were not engaging in the whalers you may have something to cry about, but as it stands they were engaged in attacks with them and the whalers have every right to try to escape and defend themselves. If that means the Ady gil trying to block their path then all they can do is run over them. Thats right, I see the Ady gil trying to block there path and you say " why would they want to do that?", well ask those protesters who chain themselves to tress in front bulldozers, b/c that is the same type of eco-terrorism that the Sea Shepherd is undertaking.
So yes it does matter what they were doing , b/c it changes to whole outcome, another thing that you are obviously using your selective vision on.
Here you go, just so you can get a recap on the situation of some of the tactics that the Ady Gil and Sea Shepherd are using.
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In this one they continuously get in front of the ship trying to hinder it as well as laser attacks.
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Oh and what about this one, was the raming incident intentional on the Adi gils behalf?
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What are they defending themselves from? You obviously have tunnel vision too, only choosing to see what you want to see. The Sea Shepherd has continuously tried to sabotage the whalers by snagging props, throwing dangerous objects , boarding the ships , do I have to go on?
So back and look at the videos again, especially that last one where it shows you that the Ady gil was powering forward into the whaler, it clearly has wake from it powering forward and was not dead in the water.