Anti-whaling idiots unpunished; their group's racism not condemned

The three stooges from Forest Rescue Australia who illegally boarded the Shonan Maru 2 have been released. This completely discredits these nasty insinuations, made when the morons were first captured:

"We assume they have been taken prisoner by the Japanese and historically this has not been a good situation to be in," a spokesman for Forest Rescue told The West Australian this morning.

I doubt very much he was referring specifically to that nation's prior treatment of anti-whaling activists. Kiwi lunatic Pete Bethune, for example, got off very lightly. It seems very likely that he was slyly alluding to Japan's record of wartime atrocities. Just goes to show that you can be racist if you are greenie and never be condemned for it by the compassionistas of the mainstream meeja. Imagine the reaction if a spokesman for, say, the IPA had said such a thing.

So once again the ferndies pull off another utterly ridiculous and completely pointless publicity stunt and get away with it entirely. And the long suffering Aussie taxpayer has to foot the bill.

Fools from Forest Rescue Australia deserve their Japanese punishment

One favourite tactic of extreme left-wing and deep green activists is to keep provoking their enemies relentlessly until they have to react somehow, then squealing with indignation when it happens. This so-called "hostage" situation on the Shonan Maru No 2 is a good example.

Three idiots from the group Forest Rescue Australia boarded the Japanese whaling vessel in the night and were captured by the crew. Obviously they were going to be held as a result. What did they expect -- some sushi and sake and a warm farewell the next morning?

Paul Watson showed amazing gall in interpreting the quite understandable reaction of the Japanese as something way out of line: 

Captain Watson said the activists had showed incredible daring to clamber aboard the Japanese vessel, as it was brimming with barbed wire and other devices designed to deter unwelcome boarders.

These people are behaving like spoiled brats. I don't give a tinker's what happens to them. And I think a lot of people who were sympathetic to their cause are rapidly becoming less so because of antics like this.

Nuclear power and atomic bombs are not the same thing!

Anti-nuclear activists have been amazingly successful in their attempts to conflate nuclear power with nuclear explosions. But of course the two are not mutually inclusive. You just have to take a deep breath and think about it for a moment. Sure, a nuclear meltdown is a terrifying prospect but it's nothing compared to a bloody mushroom cloud!

But thinking calmly is the last thing the activists want people to do. Journalists cooperate with them in achieving this aim because many of them are greenies themselves. Also, constantly beating up the threat of a catastrophic outpouring of radioactive material sells a helluva lot more papers.

That's why there's been such a weird fixation on the potential nuclear threat over the actual quake disaster in Japan. It's also why you see articles like this one, the title of which is very revealing: "Why Japan embraced nuclear power after suffering the atomic bomb".

Short answer: Because they're not the same thing. And doing so made economic sense.