State government speaks against Bush directive on Navy sonar use

[Bonobo]

Source: Malibu Times

"Mid-range sonar operates at the same frequency as whales' communication," Tom Ford, spokesman for the Santa Monica Baykeeper, said. "We don't take our national security lightly, but the president's unfortunate decision means you'll be seeing more dead whales on beaches."

Studies and necropsies performed on marine mammals, including whales and dolphins, that beached themselves following sonar training showed extensive bleeding from the brain and auditory functions.

The Navy asserts that it provides enough safeguards to prevent harmful effects on oceanic life and that its training, to hunt the quiet diesel-electric submarines now operated by countries around the world is vital to national security.

Read more: http://www.malibutimes.com/articles/2008/01/24/news/news4.txt

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This is OUR country doing this. And it is NOT limited to 600 or 800. It is unlimited and unknown how many these kill.

[truebrit71]

1. I wish I could say I was surprised, but then I'd be lying...

..i cannot WAIT until these criminal assholes are out of office...

[Bonobo]

2. How come people only care if it's about pirates?

[Barrett808]

3. rec'd n/t

[Bonobo]

4. Thanks! And this isn't even a sovereign nation 3,000 miles away! We can really affect this!

It's us and we are the government. That means we are killing whales in reckless, indiscriminate numbers -for no reason!

And no one even gets to eat them!


Or have fun chasing the people who killed them!

[Acadia Blue]

5. Kill people, kill whales, kill kill kill that is bush's mantra