Activist escapes jail for attack on whaling vessel
8th July 2010
Peter Bethune, an environmental campaigner who boarded a Japanese whaling vessel in the Antarctic Ocean in February, has been sentenced to a suspended two-year prison term in Tokyo.
Not a positive development. All you have to do these days is label yourself (or be labelled by the lamestream media) an ‘activist’ and you can get away with behavior that would land any ordinary person in prison. This merely encourages such ‘activism’. That’s not what the law is there to do; it’s supposed to discourage that sort of thing.