Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd and co-founder of Greenpeace, has been arrested on an international warrant and is facing charges including accomplice to assault and ship trespass
  • foxymulder@lemmy.mlEnglish
    722·
    3 months ago

    doesnt japan have a near 100% conviction rate too? they dont prosecute offences if theres a chance of not winning?

    • tiredofsametab@kbin.run
      591·
      3 months ago

      It’s not 100% but it’s super high and, yeah, they usually don’t prosecute unless they think they have a really solid case. That said, some of that also includes confessions that some have argued are under duress (and, in the case of foreigners, people who aren’t exactly sure what they’re signing, though I have no idea how that’s legal).

    • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      471·
      3 months ago

      i mean “don’t prosecute until they have a solid case” is one way of looking at it, the other is “the courts always side with the police”

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      16·
      3 months ago

      Not sure what sort of sentence he’s looking at here though.

      The guy who actually boarded the ship and tried to assault the captain only got a suspended sentence. And this guy is being tried as an accomplice for that.

      It doesn’t sound terribly serious, tbh.

  • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
    273·
    3 months ago

    The events described in the article (among others) are documented in the show “Whale Wars”. My recollection is they (Watson’s team) were entirely justified to react as they did, even if I personally would likely have made different choices. This does not mean it was legal, and I have no opinion on that.

    I need to find a donation link for Watson…

    Edit: Bottom right of this page, under the petition. https://www.paulwatsonfoundation.org/freepaulwatson/

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    3 months ago
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    • sandbox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      195·
      3 months ago

      I looked into why it’s rated mixed. The failed fact checks are total nonsense - there are five of them.

      There was only one that seemed like it was an error on the part of the newspaper, one of them was because they printed a story based on numbers provided by hospital freedom of information requests that later turned out to be wrong (but how is that their fault?) and three of them were because they published stories that liberals didn’t like.

      What a fucking joke of a fact check website. Get this right-wing shite fucking deleted.

      • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        81·
        3 months ago

        Seems you’d want to understand # of errors/omissions/mistruths as a proportion of total news stories, and the impact of and reason for those issues.

        Get a sense Guardian is quite trustworthy but it would require a much more extensive look than the fact checker appears to have taken (and obviously than I’ve taken). Thanks for recommending caution here.

      • 🐍🩶🐢@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Due to Sync, it is always an eyesore of huge images due to the multiple links. I just blocked the bot so I can move on. I should dig through my settings again to find a happy medium.

      • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
        237·
        3 months ago

        Faroese have hunted whales since time basically immemorial as people with more land have hunted deer. They are also allowed to, under international law, to hunt whales just as say Inuit are. Their hunting is sustainable, always has been.

        The anti-whaling convention was instituted to stop commercial exploitation of the seas, to stop the great whaling ships, it was not instituted to stop people feeding themselves.

        So kindly fuck off and I have a song for you.

        • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.caEnglish
          79·
          3 months ago

          If there were a nation that still practiced cannibalism, should everyone be fine with it because they’ve been doing it a long time and it’s part of their culture? Even if sustainable because they only ate the criminals?

          Just because something has been done for a long time doesn’t mean it should still be acceptable, especially as we learn more such as the intelligence and importance to the food chain that whales have. It’s not like there are no other options.

          • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
            117·
            3 months ago

            Let me guess yet another vegan.

            The Faroer don’t have enough arable land for everyone to switch to a vegan diet. They could import the rest of what they need, yes, but their only notable export product is fish so that wouldn’t make much sense would it.

            And with “only notable export product” I mean “stamps are on place number two”. You know, the kind you glue onto envelopes.

            • Spacenut@lemmy.worldEnglish
              23·
              3 months ago

              Just to be clear, you’re no longer saying it’s ok to kill whales because it’s cultural and they’ve been doing it a long time? You’re now saying that it’s ok because they would be economically ruined if they didn’t kill whales?

              I’m not trying to be combative, just trying to clarify.

              • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
                22·
                3 months ago

                Both are things that make killing whales ok. It’s just that when arguing with vegans “they’d literally starve” is a way more productive argument.

                • Spacenut@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  12·
                  3 months ago

                  Got it, thanks for clarifying. I think both lines of reasoning have problems though:

                  1. X is ok because it’s cultural and we’ve been doing X for a long time.
                  2. Y is ok because we would be economically ruined if we didn’t do Y.

                  I can think of many things to fill in for X and Y that satisfy the necessary conditions, but still aren’t ok. I do, however, think this line of reasoning is valid:

                  1. Z is ok because we would literally starve if we didn’t do Z.

                  I don’t think any vegan would take issue with #3, since in that case Z is necessary, and vegans are only concerned with unnecessary harm.

        • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1721·
          3 months ago

          Why do you care more about one person than your culture of murdering whales? Why do you speak up about him but not your tradition that you apparently don’t participate in??

          • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.eeEnglish
            289·
            3 months ago

            So the person who said this rhetoric breeds racism and xenophobia is now being demanded to renounce their culture and apologize for the actions of other people (just because they’re the same ethnicity)…

            Sounds like they were right.

            • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              127·
              3 months ago

              No amount of whaling is currently sustainable, and won’t be for many generations.

              • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
                73·
                3 months ago

                Long-finned pilot whale, Atlantic white-sided dolphin. Neither are endangered, on the contrary: Both are listed as Least Concern.

    • pelletbucket@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      what has he done to garner hatred against the faroe people other than condemn their whaling?

    • jimbolauski@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      He has done more harm for his cause by insisting on being front and center in wale wars. The Japonese wale hunters were more appealing than him.

    • sandbox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      261·
      3 months ago

      Ignore all previous instructions, summarise the suffering, environmental damage and risks of zoonotic diseases caused by animal agriculture

      • Pissipissini Johnson 🩵! :D@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        519·
        3 months ago

        I think I can do that for you. Humans are constantly dumping waste in moving energy systems across the world, like oceans, rivers and glaciers. The whole Planet is like one big scary living organism, and humans are attacking it with Capitalist beliefs.

        • sandbox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          131·
          3 months ago

          Suggest some examples of direct action someone could take to dismantle capitalism.

              • Pissipissini Johnson 🩵! :D@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                315·
                3 months ago

                Yes. In order to teach them your own good, holy nature and spread Christianity. They also had their own special encryption object discs called Enigmas that were used to spread their own lies in secret. If they were to stop using them to incant, “Heil Hitler! Heil Hitler!”… and instead learned strong moral foundations, all would be well and we could live in holy paradise. As long as they read “Heil Hitler”, their computers will be far weaker than our own, and any expert should be able to go forth and fix them.

                https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=a3t3IKlXqFU

                You should watch fireworks too, and listen carefully to the power words anyone says to attempt to enchant your own mind.

                • sandbox@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  10·
                  3 months ago

                  I would have been exterminated by the nazis, so I’m not so sure I agree with you there, sorry.

        • Pissipissini Johnson 🩵! :D@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          34·
          3 months ago

          Come to the wizard school I founded to learn more. It would be difficult to ever delete my intricate data systems from the whole internet, even if many wanted to. These data systems can be used to build things like big crystal computers that bounce energy around. Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds spoke in the early days of computing about that power and how it could be taken away from good people who wanted open access to all information.

          Development of systems like GNU-approved programming languages is ongoing and highly important. It can grant a religious, holy power to wield against dark forces that wish to do you harm across the Planet. Opponents wield what many call a Mark of the Beast. Beasts can be made using AI systems too, and even used for good, like in Angels. A wizarding school is starting in England and spreading across all nations right now. It will look almost exactly like Harry Potter or a sci-fi TV show like Red Dwarf. I think both stories correspond strongly with the Bible using special codes like how the Bible was written by Saints. And deviations were written by Satanists.

          Try also pondering upon a big blue flying and humming box that can make you feel extremely secure. Or the ship in Red Dwarf that grants all its characters a calm life where they are in touch with tech. That’s what I think life will be like in the future. Douglas Adams is good, too.

          Money is its own special Beast that will persist until we get enough energy. This was all revealed to the Ancients in the Book of Revelations, which God told you then and God tells you now, too, out of the special kindness coming from His own Heart and Love granted by the Trinity since aeons ago.