I just watched the latest episode of South Park where it dealt with their personal view on Japanese whaling. To sum it up it was making fun of the show Whale Wars because the show really doesn't do anything to stop the Japanese from hunting whales. WhenI first saw the promo of the show (Whale Wars)I at least thought that the people in the show were doing a good cause. Of course I never see an episode of ituntil south park "informed" me of what was really going on. So I did my best to research the matter to find out what Whale Wars was really about.

Instead of trying to educate the Japanese government or setting a lower quota or even enforcing some sort of law of where they can and can't fish. These guys on the ship are just terrorizing the Japanese ships. Once the captain catches up to a japanese ship he is just aggressively trying to force his ideals on them by throwing some stink bombs on the ships. Yeah that's a good way to stop whaling. What irks me even more is when after several warnings by the japanese to tell them to stop the japanese eventually take matters into their own hands and start throwing stun/flash grenades onto the american's ship and they start to get all dramatic saying the japanese are attacking them. Boo hoo. You picked a fight with them you gave up your right to complain about a retaliation.

There are other ways to deal with this problem but becoming terrorists is not the way to do things. The japanese have been killing whales because its part of their culture and lifestyle. You can't just take that away overnight. That's like trying to take away chicken and cows as a food source away from america. It's just not going to happen. I don't expect many people to agree with me since apparently this is a very touching subject but I just want people to come to their senses, see both sides of the debate, and stop trying to use force to get what you want. There are way bigger problems to deal with than trying to stop the japanese killing some whales.

Well that's my rant for the month