Talk about no decency.
Two anti-whaling activists planned to disrupt a Japanese whaling ship in the Ross Sea by throwing glass bottles full of acid onto the ship's deck last month. But instead, they got lost in fog and bad weather that rolled in. They were forced to await rescue.
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which the protesters were a part of, sent out a mayday on their behalf after they failed to return to their command ship on time, and vessels all over the region joined in the search for the missing protesters, including the Japanese whaler.
The whaler ended up spotting them and rescued them, providing them with warmth, food and shelter (according to one account). After a time, the protesters returned to their dinghy and went on their "way."
They began pursuing the vessel that had just rescued them, and proceeded to throw bottles of acid onto the deck of the whaler. Two Japanese nationals were injured in the attack.
The Japanese obeyed the law of the sea and provided humanitarian assistance to the distressed protesters. And their act of kindness and mercy was rewarded with an acid attack by the same people that they had just rescued.
No arrests were made.
If the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society doesn't denounce tactics like this, they should be added to the nation's foreign terrorist organization list. Some of their members are clearly out of control and willing to use extraordinary means to achieve their goals. Check out the criteria pertaining to what constitutes a terrorist act and the means of carrying them out after the list of current terror groups (Items III and V).
I don't like whaling, but I like terrorism even less. And I especially don't like it when someone goes out of their way to help a stranger and then gets hurt by the stranger who USES ACID on their rescuers. It doesn't matter how weak the acid was; people got hurt for no good reason.
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