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Environment & Energy

caraher

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3. Who's going to be there to enforce it?

Reply to leveymg (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 19, 2012, 08:57 AM

Dec 2012

Yeah, we *could* send the Navy, I suppose. But I don't see any real incentive to do so.

I think all this really does is give anyone who wants to harass the Sea Shepherd folks in US courts one more thing to attack them with.

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Japan whalers given Sea Shepherd injunction by US court [View all] xchrom Dec 2012 OP

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When did that ever stop us from applying power globally? leveymg Dec 2012 #2

Who's going to be there to enforce it? caraher Dec 2012 #3

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Fault. PamW Dec 2012 #9

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