Shonan Maru Whalers Rammed the Andy Gil
The jaw-flapping news of the week from our Great Southern Ocean’s battle to protect whales in the Antarctic sanctuary – yep from those bloody Japanese pseudo-scientific scumbags – is that the said Japanese have been filmed intentionally running over a protest boat. The Ady Gil, that awful looking bio-diesel powerboat, lost 3 metres and is pretty much broken.
If you watch the video you can clearly see the captain of the Shonan Maru deliberately swerved at the boat that appeared to be a sitting duck. Not only that… after they ran the much smaller boat over they hit it again with the water canon! Thus further endangering life. That tells me that its only sheer luck that nobody died in the incident.
Can I see how this happened in the seasonally intensifying battle to eat or save the 935 minke whales and 50 fin whales of this year’s Japanese harvest? Yes, to a certain extent it was inevitable. But it was also a crime.
So my question is where do the Australian Federal Police get the kahoonas from the cupboard to go and arrest the captain of the Shonan Maru? I’m serious. Last year we had the incident with the AFP jumping all over the Sea Shepherd for apparently (as the Japanese accused) intentionally running into them somewhere out in the ocean. That’s a no-no, by the way. Ships are meant to at all cost avoid crashing into other ships – the sea is a dangerous place.
As a concerned Australian citizen who has seen the video of the Shonan Maru intentionally causing that collision with the Ady Gil – where is the AFP? Why aren’t they already out there arresting that captain and impounding the vessel for committing a crime in Australian waters? Why isn’t the Royal Australian Navy out there arresting these people?
Oh I forgot. Australia doesn’t want to diplomatically offend Japan. Same old story… we’re the bend-over-the-table bitch in that prison relationship.
