Captain Paul Watson: Newsweek Attempts to Justify the Slaughter at Taiji I left this comment on the comment page for the article in Newsweek. Please leave comments to let Newsweek know that there is no justification for the slaughter of dolphins at Taiji. “Bill Powells attempt to justify and express sympathy for the killers of Taiji will not overcome the stark reality of knives being plunged into the vulnerable flesh of innocent families of dolphins. There is no cultural justification for this abomination of slaughter. These are highly intelligent, socially complex sentient beings, creatures that have saved human lives, beings that we have actually begun to communicate with. This massacre of dolphins is horrific and Sea Shepherd will not yield to such brutality and complete absence of empathy and we will continue to oppose this crime against nature and the future until it is shut down. The killing of whales and dolphins has no place in the 21st Century. World War II was nearly seven decades ago. Eating dolphin meat is no longer needed for survival and calling it a food culture is ridiculous in the same way that long pig would be justified as the food culture of cannibals.” End of comment. This article contains allegations not backed up by evidence. No one has broken harpoons or crashed funerals. Sea Shepherd activists did cut nets and release sixteen dolphins in 2003 but since that time Sea Shepherd Cove Guardians have not broken a single law in Japan. Cove Guardians have been threatened and assaulted as the police turn a blind eye however. Newsweek reports that the dolphins are killed quickly and with less blood but this simply indicates that the reporter was never there and never witnessed the killing preferring to take the word of one of the killers rather than base his article on documented evidence of the cruelty of the dolphin drive. Nor does he mention that the dolphin kill is motivated by the lust for live captive dolphins to be enslaved by the dolphinariums. His attempt to trivialize the Academy award winning film The Cove is embarrassing. I would have expected better than this from Newsweek. This is a classic piece of brass check journalism most likely motivated by some P.R. company, because it is blatantly slanted and written in a manner to attempt to provoke sympathy for the cruel killers of Taiji. And if it is not, than it is a classic case of lazy journalism because the writer failed to verify the accusations made by the dolphin killers. To suggest that the water is turned red by the activists could be easily refuted if Bill Powell had the decency to witness the killing himself instead of regurgitating the vomit fed to him by the defenders of the slaughter. He even lowers himself to attempting to invoke pity for the villagers because Taiji was bombed by Americans in World War II. It is difficult however to feel sorry for the retribution brought onto Japan by the horrific death toll initiated by the Japanese military from Nanking to Pearl Harbor and to attempt to do so shows disrespect for all the millions who died because of a war initiated by Tokyo. He then tries to twist it so as to present the myth that only white North Americans oppose the killing which is blatantly racist in ignoring the real opposition to this obscenity by people around the world including Japanese citizens. Taiji is not representative of all of Japan and increasingly Japanese citizens are distancing themselves from whaling and the killing of dolphins. The plain and simple fact is that the murder of dolphins is unacceptable to humanity – period. There can be no justification for this atrocity and only those lacking in empathy can have sympathy for this small group of killers who are dragging the Japanese flag through the blood and gore of their crimes in Taiji. If Powell is seeking to curry favor with the Japanese government with this kiss ass fluff piece he may discover that no matter how hard he tries to ignore the facts, the truth is getting through on a media he cannot control – social media, the very thing he cites as the cause of the furor at Taiji. You see Bill, live-streaming shows real blood in the water. It depicts the reality of the death throes, the spurting of the blood, the cruelty of the killers. Newsweek cannot put a polish on atrocity in light of the evidence seen by millions around the world. Nice try Bill but as you say, social media will continue to expose the truth and the horror of this little town without pity in Southern Japan.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 23:02:51 +0000
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