Japanese Whalers Shoot Themselves in the Face with Pepper Spray

If Japanese Fisheries Minister Hirotaka Akamatsu has any sense of honor and dignity he will apologize for the lies that the Institute of Cetacean Research have made in accusing Sea Shepherd of injuring three Japanese whalers on February 11th, said Paul Watson, the Captain of the Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin.

Japan's Fisheries Minister Hirotaka Akamatsu publicly condemned Sea Shepherd and told reporters on Friday, "I am full of rage. I could not believe they did such a thing."

Well, Mr. Alamatsu, we did not do such a thing, and we have the documentation to prove that the injuries suffered by the three crewmembers on the Shonan Maru 2 were self inflicted, said Captain Watson.

The video taken by Sea Shepherd provides irrefutable evidence that the three Japanese crewmembers were overcome with pepper spray that they had sprayed into the wind in their attempt to fire the chemical irritant at Sea Shepherd crew in an inflatable boat.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has an unblemished record of never having caused a single injury and this video evidence absolves Sea Shepherd of any blame in this incident and will expose the fact that the Institute for Cetacean Research and the crew of the Shonan Maru 2 deliberately fabricated the story that they were injured by the rotten butter bombs tossed on the deck by Sea Shepherd crew.

Rotten butter is butyric acid but it is less acidic than beer, is non-corrosive, non-toxic, organic, and biodegradable. It does not irritate skin or eyes but it does stink. The pepper spray being fired by the whalers is a painful eye and skin irritant. The Japanese whalers are now aware of just how irritating it is.

The Sea Shepherd crew is not protesting whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Sea Shepherd is intervening against illegal poaching operations by the Japanese whaling fleet.

The whalers are targeting endangered Fin whales and protected Minke whales inside the borders of an internationally established Whale Sanctuary in violation of a global moratorium on commercial whaling, and in violation of the Antarctic Treaty. These people are poachers and they are criminals and they are no different than elephant poachers in East Africa, except that the African poachers are black, poor, and are shot for their crimes. The Japanese poachers get hit with stink bombs and then whine about how unfair it is, said Captain Watson.

The government of Japan should be ashamed of the lies of the Institute of Cetacean Research and the stream of propaganda the ICR spews out everyday in their pathetic effort to justify their crimes in the Southern Ocean, said Captain Chuck Swift of the Sea Shepherd ship Bob Barker.

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[ednakano1]

What is the meanning of this video ? I'm borring chep commedy by SSCS.

[fred100446]

@ednakano1 the meaning is that this clears SSCS and proves ICR outright lied to the public saying SSCS threw 'acid' in their eyes. When clearly the untrained whalers pepper sprayed themselves.

[Ebutuoy2004]

@fred100446

The "watch?v=vbkfbBkLwmY" is a true video of "the Shonan Maru 2" on 2010.2.11.

The Shonan Maru 2 was attacked by Sea Shepherd.

As you can see, the color of body & the height of the deck is far different from the video of this page.

Therefore you can understand easily that the boat in the video of this page isn't the Shonan Maru 2.

The boat in the video of this page is "Yuusin Maru 3".

Please see "watch?v=icQZyBwjWNw"

Sea Shepherd shouldn't tell a big lie.

[fred100446]

@Ebutuoy2004 this is the most pathetic post I have seen. You saying the Shonan Marus it the factory ship and this harpoon vessel is the Yushin Maru 3? HAHAHA

Even in this video you listed:

watch?v=icQZyBwjWNw

have alook at the sides of it, then look at this video here, at point 13 here you can see a ladder by itself. On the new harpoon ships (yushin range) the ships steps are built in. Yes both ships are similar because surprise surprise their harpoon ships. wow

[fred100446]

@Ebutuoy2004 do yourself a favor and watch whale wars 3 when it comes out so u see full footage including the name printed for you. yet again you made this post which is clearly laughable, so I guess you would say Animal Planet painted the name on the side to aye?

Still the fact remains, whatever ship you think it is, the oil tanker for all I care, the ICR lied and shot themselves in the face.

[fred100446]

@Ebutuoy2004 oh and genius, watch?v=vbkfbBkLwmY, this is the Nishhin Maru even ICR says this.... if you are gonna defend the whalers at least get it right and follows what ICR says.

Still not sure how you get a ship that is 20 times the tonnage mixed up with a 50m harpooner.

[33vampires33]

@JonnaJacobsen1995 The whalers claimed SSCS threw acid into the whalers faces when really the stupid whalers sprayed themselves with pepper spray. Come on who does that?

[JonnaJacobsen1995]

wait, what just happened..? Oo

[evildeathmonkey1]

Hahaha you'd think a sailor would know better than to spray that stuff against the wind. I guess they never spit into the wind when they were little boys ;)

[JediDanD]

lol, Whaling Moron.

[hup2thepenguin]

How do you get injured by butyric acid? It's just a stink chemical. It can't burn you; I use it in Chem class.

[chimera15]

Ah, so that's what those were. Pretty ingenious device if it didn't come back at the shooter. lol

[rcc1111]

The whalers also have all these cameras and video cameras. Then why don't they actually show whalers being hit with the bottles? Why don't they show their crew being scalded by the Butyric Acid? Why don't they show the marks left by the bottles thrown by the SSCS? It's because they don't have any marks to show because no one has gotten injured from the SSCS butter bomb attacks. The whalers are just lying

[rcc1111]

I just realized something. The whalers are always claiming that the SSCS are aiming at their crew members right? Then how come none of the Bottles thrown have actually landed on any of their crew members? How come the Camera doesn't show where the bottles land, but just say in Japanese "They are aiming at our crew"? It's propaganda to the max. The SSCS aims at the decks of ships to make things uncomfortable for whalers to work. The SSCS uses Butyric Acid because it's safe, but smells awful

[judoisoww]

and people say ssc retard the truth come on it works both ways

[attila1997]

now THAT is friggin funny :O