Best wishes to Junichi and Toru!! Your work/investigation was invaluable, and you're very courageous. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that you'll be free soon.

Dear Junichi, Toru, and japanese Greenpeace Team, we are with you !

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LET THEM FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

its just disgusting that governments continue to support whaling in the name of science,,,and in doing so go to the extreme of arresting innocent people when really they should be taking those responsible for this horrific slaughter of beautiful innocent creatures we are so blessed to still have in the oceansss.....my support to the two activistssss who put everything to riskkkk!!!to uncover this scandal!!!!!i had the pleasure of meeting toru few weekssss ago in Fiji and i totally agree that whaling should stop immediately!!!!!!good on you greenpeace!!!!......i urge all those in support of our course to put pressure on the japaneese government to release both activistss.....

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dan

Yeah, just read about this in The Guardian.

It beggars belief really, that such arrests should be made.

Then again, the sheer ridiculousness of it only serves to highlight further, the scandal of Japanese whaling practices, and will hopefully spurn more people on to call for an end to such sinister practices.....here's hoping so.

I have a small question... (I do believe that you all are a good people working for the world's good.)

How did you intercept the meat? It must have been packaged tightly and have been secured somewhere since it was a possession of someone else...Just a small question.

Sorry for the time and space, and I hope you reach your holy goal of making the world better.

Hi Marie, you can read all about how we procured the stolen whale meat ">here

Hi Dave,

The Greenpeace International spin machine is going at full bore I see, and presumably the hole in the foot still isn't causing you guys any pain (at least on the surface)?

If the police want to know the true motive for the trespass and whale meat theft by Greenpeace, they need look no further than the donation links splattered all over your website. I am looking forward to possible defamation and false complaint charges being laid against GPJ next. Fingers crossed.

You guys should get out of the commercial anti-whaling business. The environmental movement is good in principle, but what you guys have been doing in this area is just plain wrong. End it. And move on.

Now this matter will be on permanent public legal record.

It will show why they did it and from whom they did it.

The authorities have shot themselves in the foot.

David, your logic is truly mystifying... you think that Junichi and Toru are in prison at the moment in order to fundraise for Greenpeace? That's one of the more bizarre things I've heard from you over the last couple of years. Really!

But then, I guess the ICR spin machine must be starting to revolve now, with the IWC kicking off here in Santiago.

Anyway, thanks for the advice - but I we won't be stopping our work to stop commercial whaling anytime soon. Not until Japan, Iceland and Norway exit the commercial whaling business!

Dave, maybe I need to fill you in, but GPJ are busy ardently claiming that they haven't commited theft since they didn't intend to gain from it, but you guys used the imagery to the max in a big fat publicity stunt. Of GP will deny it, but that's how it looks, mate.

It's quite understandable that GP won't exit the commercial anti-whaling business until commercial whaling stops - anti-whaling fundraising and jobs for devote anti-whalers thus continues forever. Score!

Arrested for exposing the truth or for unlawful activities?!! Just because your agenda is altruistic in intent it does not make your actions justifiable! You talk about propaganda but yours is as much propaganda as theirs. I guess the americans were right to go into iraq!

Todd, in most parts of the world, turning over goods one believes is stolen to the authorities isn't usually interpreted as a crime. In this case, the two activists delivered the whale meat - which was being smuggled off the whaling ship, disguised as personal effects, to the Tokyo Public Prosecutor.

Not sure I grasp your analogy with Americans and Iraq.

David - make up your mind - if Greenpeace Japan delivered the whale meat to the prosecutor as a publicity stunt, and it's working, then how have we shot ourselves in the foot?

Again I think you need to make up your mind - if you think we're in this "business" in order to keep an "anti-whaling" campaign going indefinitely, then why would we be pulling out all the stops to get whaling stopped? Interesting logic, I have to say.

For the record, I've spent a lot of long days and nights in the last two years working against whaling.
I spent last Christmas and New Years in the Southern Ocean. I'd like Japan to stop whaling so I can return to normal working hours and a family Christmas!

Ok so you want to stop the whaling ships in their tracks?

You drop a net in the pitch black of the night in front of it and it gets entangled in the props and the rudders, the ship is now a adrift and it will take them a day or so to cut it out if its possible at all.

Bob, that would be a very dangerous thing to do anywhere, never mind Antarctic waters. Disabling a ship like that would not only put the lives of all on board at risk, but would threaten the pristine Antarctic environment.