Fuckin dickheads should not of climbed their ship, duh.

I agee that two wrongs dont make a right, but come one, what the whalers are doing to them is pretty harsh.

If you go to the link you'll see pictures of the Japanese tying the hostages up and harassing them.

Uh yeah, if some idiot forced their way into my freaking car after cutting me off left and right because they don't like where I'm going, I'll do the same freaking thing to them.

I like whales and all and don't care at all for what Japanese fishing fleets do but those activists are just being idiots and got what they asked for.

Yeah why would there only be two guys to try and stop the whalers?

If somebody boarded my ship to give me a letter I'd take the letter and tell them to get back on their ship.  I wouldn't tie them up and harrass them, Im pretty sure there are laws against both of those things.

If the activists did it right then the Japanese whalers are incorrect in what they are doing (actually hostage situations are illegal anyways). The activists had to have received permission to board the ship and the letter they were delivering was an international legal document. All ship captions have to accept letters like that.

The whalers dont seem to be apart of the Japanese government, more hired by a research firm but hopefully the British and Australian navies sink all Japanese ships around Australia.

They're just some damn whales.

I'm all for Australian naval vessels firing on any unwelcome, foreign ships in our waters - but there is no way the Australian government would ever fire on a Japanese vessel.

Unfortunately, I think the Aust government is *trying* to look like its doing the right thing, while actually doing nothing to annoy the Japanese.

The smart thing to do, would be to harvest the same whales ourselves - and sell them to the Japanese.

The agency released pictures of broken bottles it claims the activists threw at the ship. It also showed a photo of the two men relaxing and drinking tea aboard the Yushin Maru.

Still, the image of the two men tied to the ship's railing is the one that has caused concern, leading to a call from the Australian government for the men's immediate release.

"For some time, for 10, 15 minutes, I understand, they were tied to a GPS mast," Tomohiko Taniguchi of Japan's Foreign Ministry told CNN. "The Japanese crew members feared that two crew members from Sea Shepherd might do something violent."

The killings are allowed under international law because their main purpose is scientific.

According to the Law the Japanese are aloud to be doing what they are doing, apart from the whole kidnapping part.