IWC RECEIVES ANTI-WHALING LETTER W/ 1,863 PETITION SIGNATURES

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THE FOLLOWING LETTER AND MY ANTI-WHALING PETITION WITH 1,863 SIGNATURES WAS

RECEIVED YESTERDAY BY THE INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION.

 

Their reply: Your message was read on Thursday, March 04, 2010 10:01:22 AM

(GMT+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna.

 

EMAIL: julie.creek

EMAIL: secretariat

 

Sirs:

 

As global citizens, whales belong to ALL OF US. We vehemently REJECT the recent

proposal to reinstate whaling and to drop the moratorium, based on an

environmentally disastrous, favoritism, toward the nation of Japan, which has

refused to abide by the moratorium since its inception. These criminals SHOULD

NOT be " rewarded " by trading off the lives of cetaceans [which they illegally

slaughter within a sanctuary] for " coastal " or other types of whaling. Given

the Japanese government's record of lies and deception regarding their

" scientific " whaling program, which has cost well over 50,000 cetacean lives

since the moratorium began -- not including pregnant females and the targeting

of endangered species such as the humpback -- the Japanese, Norwegians and

Icelanders have shown a complete contempt and total disregard for the wishes of

a majority of the world's population which demands an immediate end to all forms

of cetacean slaughter.

 

Cetaceans now face overwhelming threats to their survival due to global warming,

overfishing, ship strikes, sonar disturbances and pollution. Slow reproductive

rates and an unacceptably prolonged and horrific manner of slaughter dictate

that cetaceans should be spared whaling in ANY form. The IWC must encourage

non-lethal methods of cetacean study, revoke Article VIII and devise ways to

implement protections for cetaceans, worldwide, including REAL consequences for

those nations in violation of the moratorium. ALL whaling--whether it be

categorized as commercial, scientific or subsistence--is brutal, archaic,

intolerable and must be relegated to the past and ENDED PERMANENTLY.

 

We the undersigned, do hereby protest ANY EXPANSION, TRADE-OFFS AND/OR

RESUMPTION OF WHALING PERIOD. We demand that the moratorium stand; and that

criminal charges be brought against Japan for its continued violation of whaling

within a designated " sanctuary " ; and for its clear violation of the moratorium

by its commercial sale of whale meat for profit. Increased whaling quotas by

Norway, Iceland and particularly Japan, clearly point to a highly unsustainable

trend which will soon signal the complete demise of our cetaceans, if not

stopped immediately. Pandering to the most extremely rapacious elements within

our society, in order to strike deals behind closed doors and against the will

of the people, is NOT the proper role of the IWC. Giving full and complete

protection to our rapidly dwindling cetaceans is.

 

Thank you

 

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U.S. TO SUPPORT DISASTROUS RETURN TO COMMERCIAL WHALING

 

March 2010

 

The Obama Administration, through its delegation to the International Whaling

Commission Small Working Group, appears ready to sign off on a deal that would

permit a return to legal commercial whaling. The agreement would legalize Japan,

Iceland and Norway's whaling which has heretofore been conducted under

reservations to the moratorium on whaling that has been in place since 1986.

 

The only chance to derail this backroom deal appears to be direct protest to

President Obama. All environmental groups are united in their opposition to the

plan to legitimize whaling.

 

In this way the President who promised a new way of doing things is vulnerable

but only if those of us who love and revere whales make our outrage known to the

White House.

 

If the United States were to vote for a resumption of commercial whaling it

would represent a 180 degree turn around from the position the president took

just a year ago.

 

On March 6, 2009 the Obama administration pledged it would firmly oppose

whaling. Environmentalists thought Obama was signaling a tough US position

approaching meetings to examine the proposal that would open the door to legal

whaling.

 

TO PROTEST THIS RECKLESS POSITION EMAIL THE WHITE HOUSE

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President Obama, you have previously indicated you would strongly support the

protection of whales. The statements of your delegation to the NGO caucus at the

IWC in St. Pete, FL belies your commitment. I urge you to oppose legalization of

commercial whaling. Whales are intelligent and sentient creatures that should

not be killed. Thank you.

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For the whales,

Hardy Jones

 

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