Obama Hates the Whales

[boston bean]

WTF Obama wants to renogiate a moratorium for commercial whale hunting by allowing legal quotas for comercial whale hunting in Japan, Norway and Iceland.

Since 1986 there has been a moratorium on commerical whale hunting.

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 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."

Reynolds and other speakers expressed incredulity that the Obama administration helped draft the proposal. As a candidate, Obama promised to strengthen the moratorium.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/24/local/la-me-whale-day-20100524

[Dinger]

1. And Helen Thomas (nt)

[Larkspur]

2. This is the change I can NOT believe in

[boston bean]

3. I guess when he said he would strengthen the moratorium he meant

to end it and make legal quotas.

and what a tin ear he has, to be doing this now when the Gulf of Mexico is turning into a tar pit.

[muffin1]

4. Hello...

it's chess!:eyes:

[boston bean]

5. he's playing chess on Ouranus.

[Enthusiast]

6. Whale oil is an environmentally

safer choice than deep sea drilling? :hide: