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2005-05-05 Great White North

Opening Statements made in Alaska Greenpeace Trial

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Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-05-05 00:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 We didn't do it.

But if we did do it, it was because of someone else.

But if you find it wasn't someone else, then it wasn't illegal.

If it was illegal, then we didn't do it.

Posted by badanov">badanov 2005-05-05 00:14|| http://www.rkka.org]">[http://www.rkka.org] 2005-05-05 00:14|| Front Page Top

#2 My advise to these folks is to just not get in my way. A lawyer will be to late to do you any earthly good.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-05-05 12:58:31 AM|| 2005-05-05 12:58:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Greenpeace had scheduled an event near Long Island Takes an awful lot of diesel to motor from Alaska to New York - must be 8,000 miles via the Panama Canal. Nice to hear Greenpeace is doing its bit to reduce emission of greenhouse gases.

Posted by phil_b 2005-05-05 01:16|| 2005-05-05 01:16|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm still trying to figure out why Greenpeace wants to shave the whales.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-05-05 07:50|| 2005-05-05 07:50|| Front Page Top

#5 lol. Just goes to illustrate the idiocy of the Greenpeace type mental midgits.

Posted by Tkat 2005-05-05 07:56|| 2005-05-05 07:56|| Front Page Top

#6 So their point is that we need more environmental regulation, but none of it applies to them?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-05-05 08:00|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-05-05 08:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Lol, Bad - that sums it up!

Posted by Spot">Spot 2005-05-05 08:20|| 2005-05-05 08:20|| Front Page Top

#8 You got it RC! The same irony can be found in the operations of alot of these self-appointed angels and protectors of something or another. They tend to do alot toward destroying and defiling what they claim to love. It's lost upon those leading these groups because their capacity for self-delusion is legendary. Even in the face of the obvious, they cling to the lies and myths they create because they can't deal with the hole in their lives left when those lies and myths are gone. Greenpeace just happen to be enjoying their 15 minutes of infamy right now since they've been pulled out of the sewer and held up to the sun.

Posted by Tkat 2005-05-05 08:21|| 2005-05-05 08:21|| Front Page Top

#9 In his opening statement, the Ketchikan Daily News reported, prosecutor James Fayette said the ship, which carries up to 75,000 gallons of petroleum products, was not about to remain anchored in Ketchikan just because the Department of Environmental Conservation demanded that it stay until its regulatory paperwork was in order.

Wha? You mean Greenpeace's ship was not only NOT solar/wind powered, but that they were carrying 75,000 gallons of that hated oil? I'm dumbfounded, I tell ya! There's gotta be a Greenpeace-Halliburton connection here!

He told the jury that to convict the defendants, the jury must find their behavior to be a ''gross deviation from the standard of care'' that a reasonable person would exercise in a similar situation.

Actually, I would argue the greenies have MORE of a duty to comply. Ya know, the whole ''some are more equal than others'' argument turned and it's head and bite 'em in the arse!

Posted by BA">BA 2005-05-05 09:55|| 2005-05-05 09:55|| Front Page Top

#10 Confiscate the ship as reparations to the state.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-05-05 10:20|| 2005-05-05 10:20|| Front Page Top

#11 I will keep Rantburgers up on the developments of the trial this week in Ketchikan, if nothing else, a source of innocent merriment. I hope that the State can stick it to Greenpeace and expose their hypocracy.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-05-05 10:45|| 2005-05-05 10:45|| Front Page Top

#12 They should be sentenced to ten years in a galley: the true envirionmentally friendly ship.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-05-05 12:57|| 2005-05-05 12:57|| Front Page Top

#13 Lol, JFM. Excellent!

Posted by .com 2005-05-05 12:58|| 2005-05-05 12:58|| Front Page Top

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