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Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct
Boarding a ship in sovereign waters is piracy, even if the group claims to be a peaceful one. Boarding a ship with materials that can be used as weapons is threatening. I do not consider piracy a means of peaceful protest and don't understand how anyone could defend it as such unless they are allowing their preconceived notions of Greenpeace to cloud their judgment.
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Believe it or not, I have no preconceived notions of Greenpeace. But there has been no shortage of preconceived notions of them being volleyed around from a negative standpoint on this thread.
I have preconceived notions about the practice of political protest. By whomever and wherever it may be taking place. That has been the sole point of departure from my very first post.
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Whichever of them came over the rail first, plus any that were stupid enough to try after the first. If they got on board and stopped immediately when I pointed a gun at them, I would demand that they drop anything that could be used as a weapon, and detain them until they could be turned over to the proper authorities.
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And what about anything I have said disagrees with this method of ending the protest? I was commenting on the remarks made earlier in this thread, yours included, that said these people should have been shot.
But I also made the comment, somewhere along the line, that I thought a lot of remarks made on this thread were disingenuous (for the most part, I was referring to the shooting remarks) and that I thought they had a fairly drastic warping effect on what could have possibly been a less heated discussion on the whole.