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

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

 

 

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.

 

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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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your own thoughts. It is very important to personalize the

message so it does not appear mass produced.

 

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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