Originally posted by LiLRexen
What gave Greenpeace the right to board the ship in the first place? They are lucky someone didn't pull an obscure law about pirating out of their a$$ to peg those tree hugging, otter scrubbing, granola ba$tard$ with.
No one did... and that's why it's called civil disobedience... You break a law in a civil way, nonviolently, and you suffer the consequences... this is not unusual... Ghandi and MLK Jr. have also both suggested this tactic you know...
BUT the itch in this whole mess is that, for the first time, the Bush administration is going beyond attacking the citizens who protested, and is attempting to claim that Greenpeace conspired to board the ship to disrupt it's shipping... but isn't using the "Tresspassing on private property", but is instead using a law from the 1870's that was designed to keep whore house owners from bringing prostates onboard and get the sailors abandon ship and to come to their brothels... The last time this law was used was in 1890 BTW...
The trick is that this law's reach allows the government to attack the business, not the individuals, and thus attack greenpeace directly in an attempt to seriously harm them...
And judging by your response, you have no idea what you're talking about... If it wasn't for Greenpeace, I bet we wouldn't have any natural forests left at this point....