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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (55207)	8/24/2002 6:10:39 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

hmmm culinary imperialism? What if they want to eat people? IMO we have every right to say we don't approve of other countries consuming dogs, or daisies, or whales- we just don't have the right to invade them to force them to eat what we want them to, or keep them from eating what they wish to eat. We have (imo) every right to moral opinions about whatever we want, we just don't have the right to enforce those opinions by military force- but we have every right to enforce them in other ways. Just as we do in so many other areas. We decry the immorality of human rights abuses in a country, so we then restrict their trading privileges with us- and so on.

To: Lane3 who wrote (55207)	8/24/2002 6:24:57 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Recently, One of the small whale-watching boats out of our own port ran into government red tape when attempting to save a young whale entwined in fishing lines. The whale swam right over to the boat which is probably a familiar sight to them. The crew worked feverishly to cut away a substantial amount of the lines wrapped around one of the fins. The tourists on board gave them a big round of applause (and hopefully a big tip!). However, the Federal fisheries officials saw it differently, and charged the crew with violating statutes which require that no one touch a whale, and that they should have called in the proper authorities (and probably filled out the proper forms). So far the whale has not been heard from, but I suppose lawyers would like to contact it to represent it in a lawsuit for harassment.