The Sea Shepherd is " A militant anti-whaling group " WTF?

[leftchick]

aggressive perhaps but war like? hmmmmm



http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080118/sc_afp/australiajapanwhaling_080118144336

SYDNEY (AFP) - A militant anti-whaling group vowed Friday to immediately resume harassing Japanese whalers as two of its activists were returned to their protest ship after being detained on board a harpoon vessel.

The two protesters, held aboard the Japanese whaler in Antarctic waters for two days, were handed over to an Australian customs vessel early Friday and later returned to their Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's ship.

The pair was released to the Australian customs ship, the Oceanic Viking, after a direct handover between the Japanese ship and that of the conservationists proved impossible to negotiate.

Australian Benjamin Potts said the Japanese crew had tried to throw him overboard when he and fellow activist, Briton Giles Lane, 35, clambered onto the harpoon ship to protest Japan's whaling programme during a high seas chase.

"Yeah they picked me up, two guys picked me up by the shoulders, and the gunner, the guy that shoots the whales, picked my legs up and they attempted to tip me over," Potts told Fairfax Radio Network.



http://seashepherd.org/

[Bright Eyes]

1. The whaling fleets are in violation of international law.

But apparently, those who try to stop illegal fishing are militants.

What a world.

[Gman]

2. It seems the Sea Shepard is much more aggressive than Greenpeace

there's a lot of bad blood between them. Greenpeace won't give Sea Shepard the location of the Japanese fleet because Greenpeace claims the Sea Shepard is violent. The Sea Shepard claims Greenpeace's tactics are ineffective.

[gratuitous]

3. It's like when you're driving on the highway

Everyone going slower than you is a menace to navigation, everyone going faster is a maniac. In this instance "militant" means, as you correctly note, more aggressive. Ridiculous in any context where one side is using weapons and the side that isn't using weapons is described as "militant."