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Dolphin Hunters and the People Who Hunt Them

As if Japan doesn’t have enough problems as it is! Now we actually have the police preparing to protect the dolphin hunters from possible attacks from lunatics!



“Over 90% of all species that have ever lived on this planet are gone.

Extinct… We didn’t kill them all…” – GEORGE CARLIN – SAVE THE PLANET


Remember a while back when that Kiwi lunatic attacked the Japanese fishermen? Yeah, well the Japanese police are now preparing for just another such incident and is getting ready to make sure that it doesn’t happen.


It’s the same people who also claim AGW is destroying the world along with whale and dolphin hunting (those dolphins are not an endangered species, by the way). And by killing those dolphins those fishermen are all somehow ruining the environment.


We now have the parade of idiots growing as the Japanese government is sending out the SWAT teams to protect the fishermen from psychotic left wing fruitcakes.


Thanks to Tokyo Reporter for comic!


I’ve already written what I think about this nonsense in Japan Bans the Cove and Other Atrocities.

But really? Police protection for dolphin hunters!?


Is this for real?

The Associated Press reports that the Japan police hold security drill for dolphin hunt:

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police and coast guard officers have held a security drill to practice protecting a village from protesters during its annual dolphin hunt.

A Wakayama prefectural police official says Wednesday’s drill was aimed at guarding the southwestern town of Taiji from protesters before hunting season starts in September. About 100 law enforcement officers gathered in the bay where the Oscar-winning film “The Cove” was filmed.

The officers practiced responding to a ship carrying several activists intruding the bay and damaging afishnet. The official said the drill ended safely without incident.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons.

Japan allows about 20,000 dolphins to be caught each year. Most Japanese have never eaten dolphin meat but the government defends the hunts as tradition.


As if Japan doesn’t already have enough trouble as it is. Now we have to worry about, dare I say? Pro-dolphin terrorists? This is ridiculous…


The pro side to the hunting argument says that Whale and dolphin hunting in Japan go back centuries. The anti-side says that whale hunting is depleting the species. Well, you don’t hear Japanese complaining about westerners hunting, say, deer (which are rapidly disappearing from the United States)… Maybe it’s because not enough Japanese have seen Bambi.


The dolphin hunting? Well, those aren’t an endangered species at all but, I guess some people think they are cute so they don’t want them killed. You can be sure that many westerners have seen Flipper on TV! Or the crowd against dolphin hunting (in their twisted logic) say that the dolphins shouldn’t be killed and eaten as the meat is pumped full of mercury and so it is poisonous to eat. If so, then that’s great, isn’t it? Then let these people kill the dolphins, eat the meat and then they die. Problem solved!


My thinking? If dolphin hunting is so important and so profitable, let the dolphin hunters pay for their own protection. Why does the average tax payer have to pay for this? As for the lunatics who would attack these fishermen, they should be arrested and put in prison as any criminal would be who commits a felony.


But the police actually having drills to protect the fishermen in case of an attack? What utter insanity from start to finish. This world is quickly going nuts.