'Whale-huggers' restart a crusade they thought they'd won

[IScreamSundays]

Source: LA Times

Self-described "whale-huggers" toughed chilling winds on the Santa Monica Pier on Sunday to restart a crusade they thought they'd won and to revise a familiar slogan: Save the Whales Again.

"We've been doing this too long, and now we're going to do it all over again. It's very tiresome," said John Perry, a sculptor who in the 1970s campaigned for a whaling ban with a 110-foot-long humpback whale balloon.

Perry was among about 120 people at the protest, one of 16 along the California coast targeting a proposal to lift the 1986 commercial whaling moratorium and set legal quotas for Japan, Norway and Iceland, the three nations that still hunt whales. The proposal aims to reduce the number of whales killed over 10 years, but opponents say it would reward rogue actions and legitimize hunting endangered species.

"It is a rationale that makes no sense," said Joel R. Reynolds, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council. "Can we stop gang violence by allowing some gang warfare? The answer is no."

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Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-whale-day-20100524,0,4065372.story

[DRoseDARs]

1. Apparently, they didn't know moratorium /= ban. Should crack open an English dictionary sometime.

Pouting about it just makes them look disingenuous. Get back to work, you didn't win anything but a delay.

[Kolesar]

2. Ramming speed! ... eom

[DRoseDARs]

3. I think they tried that already. Didn't Greenpeace's boat crack in half?

They got their comically ironic revenge, though. Japanese whalers accused them of engaging in a chemical attack. Then it was revealed the whalers had attempted to throw stink bombs onto the protesters' boat ... by throwing INTO the wind. Much hilarity ensued on the whaling ship. :thumbsup: