Sea Shepherd

     Have you heard of the Sea Shepherd? People with common sense will take them for a gang of ruffians, I think. It is them who are illegal, though they accuse Japan. If I had an opportunity to talk to them, I'd like to tell them that you have the right to accuse Japan of the commercial hunting of whales if you don't eat beef.

     At first, I thought that their stupid behavior must have been from racial prejudice, but I guess now, I was wrong. History shows that Japanese don't attack until the last minute, and they knew it. I feel anger toward the Japanese Government as well as the Sea Shepherd. What will become of growing anger against the Sea Shepherd and their sponsors. Propositions to stop the import of OG beef are boiling on the internet in Japan. However, there's unconfirmed information that their sponsor is the U.S. meat companies. If it is true, the boycott of OG beef would be to their sponsor's benefit. It's a bit tricky.

    Yesterday, Australian Prime Minister Rudd announced that Australia would file a lawsuit against Japan to the International Court of Justice. I couldn't believe this news. Is he sane? Does he want to fight with all whaling countries? Does he want to expose the Australian selfish EEZ (exclusive economic zone) to the world? I imagine that he would like to distract public attention from the country's serious internal affairs. Chinaphil Rudd might follow the stupid policy of the Chinese Communist Party.

     As for the internal affairs of Australia, I have an interst in Aboriginal Issues and the serious jobless rate of Australia, because Japan has the same kind of issues, though the seriousness of them is far less than Australia. In particular, how will the authorities handle the growing number of newly made Aborigines? Do Australians want to make the country socialist? The present Japanese Government looks like they want to become socialist, and I am developing a critical feeling about it. Anyway, I doubt the intelligence of the people of Australia and New Zealand.

(Vocabulary)

knot of roughs   ごろつきの集団

knot  一団

rough [C](やや古・インフォーマル) 乱暴者, ごろつき

ruffian  ごろつき

the commercial hunting of whales  商業捕鯨

feel anger toward sb   ＜人＞に腹を立てる

anger with/against

growing public anger against the government  政府に対してつのる国民の怒り

negligible 〈影響・損害などが〉 無視してもよい, 取るに足らない

unconfirmed 〈報告などが〉 未確認の, 〈話・うわさなどが〉 確証のない

an unconfirmed rumor 確証のないうわさ

boycott  (抗議などの手段として) …をボイコットする, 排斥する

boycott  ボイコット, 不買［排斥］運動 

boycott on/of 

a boycott of products tested on animals  動物実験をした製品のボイコット

tricky (状況・仕事などが)面倒な, 扱いにくい

Getting everyone to use the new computer system will be tricky.  全員に新しいコンピュータシステムを使わせるのは面倒なことだ．

International Court of Justice  国際司法裁判所

exclusive economic zone 〔【略】EEZ〕 排他的経済水域

distract 〈人〉 の注意をそらす, 気を散らす

Don't distract me while I'm driving. 運転中に気が散るようなことはするな．

distract sb from sth  ＜人＞の注意を＜…＞からそらす

Jack's music was distracting me from my book.  ジャックの音楽のせいで読書になかなか集中できなかった．

distract attention from sth ＜…＞から注意をそらす

internal affairs / matter of internal politics  内政問題

Aborigine （オーストラリアの）アボリジニ

jobless rate / unemployment rate  失業率

socialist country 社会主義国

socialist 社会主義の, 社会主義的な; (国家・政権が) 社会主義の

develop a critical feeling 危機感を抱く

doubt the credibility of the article その記事の信頼性を疑う

Comments

[ednakano]

Sea Shepherd does not care Race, Nationality or species. They work only for Money.