JAPAN THREATENS CONSERVATIONISTS WITH KNIFE.

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JAPAN THREATENS CONSERVATIONISTS WITH KNIFE.

 

Dear Caring friend,

 

Pilot whales awaiting slaughter in Japanese bays

The Japanese fisherman threatened conservationists with knives .

Please click here to see what is going on with some of the courageous

rescuers who traveled a long way to rescue whales and dolphins in Japan .

Now, they are in trouble. They need our help urgently.

More importantly, Japan must stop its barbaric , cruel long annual

" Drive Hunt " . Please click here to read the story :

http://www.enn.com/direct/display-release.asp?id=5380

 

Now, it's the time for all of the caring people to help .

We enclosed a Sample Letter and ALL of the Contact Information for

your guidance to help . Every Contact is important. Thank you.

 

(NOTE: Please let's continue to boycott Japanese products

until they stop killing whales and dolphins completely.)

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SAMPLE LETTER :

(Note: You are welcome to write your own letter or modify

our letter if you wish. thanks. Be Polite, please ).

 

 

Your Name,

Your Address, City, State, Zip, Country Name.

U.S. Constituents or Constituent (if you live in US)

 

 

Dear Mr. President,

 

I'm urgently requesting you to demand Japan to permanently Stop its

very cruel, barbaric and horrifying annual long " Drive Hunt " season to

slaughter thousands of dolphins and whales and to protect those brave

conservationists, led by Hardy Jones of Bluevoice.Org, who traveled a

long way from California to Japan to protect whales and dolphins and

were threatened with knives by the Japanese fishermen at Taiji, Japan.

(please see Reference # 1)

 

Every year, for Seven months long, from October to April , is Japanese

fisherman's bloody, barbaric annual " Drive Hunt " which kills as many

dolphins and whales as they can along its coastal area by knife,

by long lance, by spike, by long spears into dolphins and whales

helpless,

crying and thrashing body. To have some idea how its done, click:

http://www.bluevoice.org/dolphin/save.html#incite

Then click each of the photo under : " Videos of Futo Massacre "

Then select " Open this file from its current location " , then click

" OK " .

 

On October 9th, 2001 , in Taiji, Japan , some courageous

conservationists

traveled a long way to document Japanese fisherman's " drive hunt " when

its killing season started. They videotaped the capture of the whales

for

broadcast on the internet to expose the ongoing slaughter of whales and

dolphins in Japanese waters, the conservationists, led by Hardy Jones

of www.bluevoice.org , were threatened with knives by the fishermen

who had killed at least four pilot whales by slashing them knives and

pulling them into an nearby bay where they were butchered or slaughtered.

The remaining 20 pilot whales remain trapped in the bay awaiting to be

slaughtered.

 

This is not a single isolated case. Japan's dolphin slaughtering

kicked

into high gear in 1986, the year the ban on commercial whaling went

into effect. Japan is steadily hunting its coastal cetacean populations

to extinction. By 1995, a single species - Dall's porpoise- was being

taken at a rate of 17,000 per year. Hundreds of boats are licensed to

kill, and they have severely depleted, in sequence, populations of

striped dolphins, pilot whales, beaked whales, and Dall's porpoise. "

(see Reference # 3, # 4 )

 

The crossbow and hand harpoon fishery kills 10,000--15,000

dolphins and porpoises annually. The drive fisheries, killing

1,000-2,000 dolphins, are driven by the dolphin captivity industry,

which pays fishermen up to $30,000 each for a few live dolphins

for aquariums and amusement parks, with the rest of the captured

pods consigned to slaughter. A recent Environmental Investigation

Agency report revealed that Japan has killed more than 400,000

dolphins and small cetaceans over the last 20 years.

 

The Japanese officials support such horrifying cruel act and instruct:

" Keep out of public view " . The slaughter of dolphins and whales by

Japanese fishermen for sale to commercial markets for human and

domestic animal consumption.

 

We urgently request you to demand Japan to :

 

1: Permanently STOP such cruel, barbaric and horrifying annual

" Drive Hunt " to slaughter thousands of crying dolphins and whales .

Please also demand Japan to immediately release those

20 pilot whales trapped now in the bay of Taiji, Japan.

 

2: PROTECT those brave conservationists , led by Hardy Jones ,

who traveled a long way to Japan to protect whales and dolphins

and were threatened with knives by the Japanese fishermen.

 

Thank you.

 

Sincerely ,

Your Name,

Your Address,

City, State, Zip

U.S. Constituents

Country Name.

 

References :

1: http://www.enn.com/direct/display-release.asp?id=5380

http://www.bluevoice.org/

2: http://www.enn.com/direct/display-release.asp?id=5346

3: http://www.seashepherd.org/issues/dolphins/japanslaughter1000.html

4: http://www.earthtrust.org/drivekills.html

5: http://www.howardhall.com/stories/dexter.html

 

 

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CONTACT INFORMATION :

 

NOTE: Please tailor our above Sample Letter to different Contacts.

 

1 : PRESIDENT BUSH AND ITS CABINET MEMBERS :

Please address to: Dear Mr. President ,

At the beginning and end of your letter, please remember sign as :

U.S. Constituent(s) or " Constituents " (if you live in U.S.)

 

The President George W. Bush

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW

Washington, DC 20500 U.S.A.

Tel: 202-456-1414 ( 9am-5pm, please stay on the line to talk to

the Operator. )

Fax: 202-456-2461 (in U.S.A.)

E-mail : president (@whitehouse.gov )

 

Please also CC to First Lady Laura Bush and

Vice President Dick Cheney and Mrs. Cheney and

other cabinet members :

 

Copy the following address and paste to CC field.

Note: it must have comma between addresses.

Please remove the " (..) " at the end of each address before

you paste them to your CC field :

 

 

first.lady , (@whitehouse.gov, )

vice.president , (@whitehouse.gov, )

mrs.cheney , (@whitehouse.gov,)

DEvans, (@doc.gov, )

whitman.christine, (@epamail.epa.gov, )

ann.veneman , (@usda.gov, )

gale_norton , (@ios.doi.gov, )

AskDOJ , (@usdoj.gov, )

Secretary, (@state.gov, )

The.Secretary, (@hq.doe.gov )

Rod.Paige (@ed.gov )

adela.backiel , (@usda.gov )

contactustr , (@ustr.gov )

hhsmail , (@os.dhhs.gov )

contact-oasp , (@dol.gov )

 

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2: Send your PROTEST directly to Japan, contact following :

PLEASE TAILOR THE ABOVE LETTER BEFORE YOU SEND

to the following Japanese Cabinet and its Prime Minister :

 

NOTE: You Do Not need to give your detail mailing address to

Japanese officials, just Your Name, City, State, COUNTRY name.

 

It is important also let Japanese officials know that you will

continue

to boycott all of the Japanese products and services until they stop

killing whales and dolphins. Such cruelty is simply not acceptable !

 

Write to Japanese Prime Minister :

 

Please address to : Dear Prime Minister Koizumi,

 

 

Prime Minister Koizumi

Fax. 011-81-3-5511-8855

(011 is the international code, 81 is the country code

if you send from USA .)

Email: jpm (@kantei.go.jp )

 

Please CC your letter to :

FISHING COOPERATIVE TAIJI

Fax: 011- 81-7-3559-2821

Email: taijitfc (@cypress.ne.jp )

 

Japanese Fisheries Agency

Fax.: 011-81-3-3502-0794

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3: CONTACT YOUR TWO US Senators and one Representative :

Please CALL them or at least Send a Fax :

 

Your Two US Senators and One US Representative :

Click http://politics./freps

 

Please Enter your address , click " Get District "

then contact your Two Senators and One Representatives.

(click " Send Email " to send your email .

click " Profile " to get their Telephone number and Fax number )

 

If your Representative does not have Email address handy,

then go to: http://www.house.gov/writerep/

(please find your Zip+4 Look up first ).

 

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4: It is important also to Contact all of the other U.S. Senators :

to let them know the seriousness of this long struggled issue:

 

Please Copy the following list and Paste into BCC field in your Email.

Then put your other DIFFERENT email address in the TO field

before you hit Send : Note: it must have a comma between addresses.

Before you hit Send, please check everything correctly !

 

Please address to : Dear Senator , or : Dear Honorable Senator,

 

 

Senator,

senator,

senator.hutchinson,

blanche_lincoln,

info,

senator_mccain,

senator,

senator_allard,

administrator,

senator,

senator_lieberman,

senator,

comments,

bob_graham,

connie,

senator_max_cleland,

senator_coverdell,

senator,

senator,

chuck_grassley,

tom_harkin,

larry_craig,

dick,

senator_fitzgerald,

senator_lugar,

sam_brownback,

pat_roberts,

jim_bunning,

senator,

senator,

senator,

senator,

john_kerry,

senator,

john_kerry,

senator,

senator,

michigan,

senator,

michigan,

mail_grams,

senator,

john_ashcroft,

kit_bond,

senator,

senatorlott,

max,

conrad_burns,

senator,

jesse_helms,

senator,

senator,

chuck_hagel,

mailbox,

opinion,

frank_lautenberg,

senator_torricelli,

senator_bingaman,

senator_domenici,

senator,

senator_reid,

senator,

senator_dewine,

senator_voinovich,

jim_inhofe,

senator,

Oregon,

senator,

senator,

senator_specter,

senator_chafee,

jack,

senator,

senator,

tim_johnson,

senator_frist,

senator_thompson,

administrator,

senator,

senator,

senator_hatch,

senator_robb,

senator,

vermont,

senator_leahy,

senator_gorton,

senator_murray,

Russell_Feingold,

senator_kohl,

senator_byrd,

senator,

senator,

craig,

senator,

senator2,

comments,

senator,

tom_daschle,

senator_carnahan,

senator,

olympia,

phil_gramm,

senator,

senator,

senator,

tim,

tom_harkin,

webmaster,

historian,

curator,

info,

postmaster,

mailbox,

mailbox,

admin,

comments,

webmaster,

Year2000,

webmaster,

senator,

senator,

 

 

The following Senators do not have Email address.

However, you can send email thru their web sites.

Please click each one of them :

 

http://www.senate.gov/~craig/webform.html

http://murkowski.senate.gov/webmail.html

http://cantwell.senate.gov/mailform.html

http://miller.senate.gov/email.html

http://crapo.senate.gov/email.htm

http://grassley.senate.gov/webform.htm

http://roberts.senate.gov/email.htm

http://thomas.senate.gov/html/contact.html

http://allard.senate.gov/contactme/index.cfm

http://daschle.senate.gov/webform.htm

http://baucus.senate.gov/EmailMax.htm

http://wellstone.senate.gov/webform.html

http://domenici.senate.gov/contact/contactme.cfm

 

The following Senator does not have Email address

nor Website either, please Fax/Call him :

Senator Mark Dayton (D - MN)

Tel: (202) 224-3244 , Fax (202) 228-2186

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5: Contact Media :

 

Please Write to the Editors for all of the major newspapers

as well as your local media too.

 

Simply address to: Dear Editor,

 

Click here to get media info :

http://capwiz.com/wa/dbq/media/

 

Enter your Zip code , check " show national media in results "

then click " GO " . then click each Major newspaper to

send your letters to them and then click your local newspapers

to contact them too.

 

You may also click following and then click your State

then send your Letter to Editor to them too :

http://www.opedletters.com

 

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Thanks so much for your kindness, compassion and urgent help.