Low acts at high seas….

Last week the events in the southern ocean have been making headlines around the world. The anti-whaling activists terrorizing the Japanese whaling ship and their crew have been taken hostage…and the two countries (Australia & Japan) were trying to resolve the situation smoothly…

This is quite a scene which happens every year, the anti whaling people trying to stop Japanese from whaling the endangered species …but Japanese say that they are slaying the whales for some research purpose(GOD only know what research these people are doing). But this time the protest has gone way too far…2 anti whaling activists (Benjamin Potts, 28, of Sydney, and Giles Lane, 35, from Britain) from the Australian ship Steve Irwin boarded the Japanese ship Yushin Maru illegally to hand over a letter of protest and the crew was taken hostage after 3 days of diplomatic talks the 2 activist were returned back to their ship…

I just have a question for those activists, what were they thinking when they jumped over a ship illegally and what did they prove by damaging the Japanese ship? Were they nuts? Have the cold Antarctic weather froze their thinking capability?? I just couldn’t understand these people’s concept they are very much concerned about the whales but what about their own safety and the safety of the Japanese ship crew members?? What did they achieve by doing this, except straining the relationship between the two countries… Is it really worth it?? There are many peaceful and legal ways which can be followed to prevent whaling… what if the Japanese say that kangaroo’s are only found in Australia so that we are not supposed to consume kangaroo meat?? Would we listen to them… I don’t see any of these activists in front of any slaughter house aren’t the other animals deserved to live??? It doesn’t mean that I am supporting the whalers, I am strongly against whaling but I am not approving the activists way of taking things into their own hands and worsening the situation…Would the crew members and the Captain of Steve Irwin have accepted if Japanese men damaged and boarded their ship illegally?? I don’t understand what they have achieved by this act of foolishness if they wanted to make headlines all over the world then they have achieved it… but still the whalers are whaling the endangered species…

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