My concern is not for the judicial system, but for the reality that the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica has a price on my head, and a Costa Rican prison would provide an excellent opportunity for someone to exercise this lethal contract against me.
If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can't live on this planet with a dead ocean.
Putting Zodiacs in front of whaling vessels doesn't do it anymore. Done that, been there, seen that.
The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics.
Pete Bethune is a hero in New Zealand. He's a hero worldwide to people who want to see the end of whaling.
Ships are expendable; the whales are not.