I'm
beginning to gradually develop a clearer picture of why Australia has
been a hard-line proponent of the anti-whaling cause in the Southern
Hemisphere, compared with other anti-whaling nations. Its firm and
un-compromising position helps us portray a picture of the
nation desperately reminding the world of the Australian claim to
territorial sovereignty in Antarctica rather than being deeply
intertwined with the demonstration of its persistent antagonism against Japan's
whaling activities.
According
to the Australian government, it claims that its Antarctic territory covers
nearly 5.9 million square kilometers, about 42% of Antarctica and nearly 80% of
the total area of Australia itself.
Red-colored areas claimed by Australia
The
Conference on Antarctica held in Washington, D.C. on October 15, 1959 produced
"the Antarctic Treaty" agreed and signed on December 1, the same year
by the following 12 nations; The Governments of Argentina, Australia, Belgium,
Chile, the French Republic, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, the Union of South Africa,
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America.
What
Article IV of the present Treaty stipulates is interpreted as and summarized into "freezing
of any claims to territorial sovereignty in Antarctica as long as the
Treaty is in force.
It
is easily assumed that Australia strongly objects Japan's whaling activities in
Antarctic ocean not only for reminding the world of its territorial claim and
but also possibly for reinforcing it by stretching its tentacles with the
use of a terrorist group, Sea Shepherd, and even with the help of the
governments of the United States, New Zealand, and Netherlands. Among them,
Australia and New Zealand are claimants and the United States of America
reserves its right to make a claim in the original Antarctic Treaty while Japan
is a non-claimant.
Whenever
Sea Shepherd refers to the Antarctic Ocean, it uses an expression "the
Australian Antarctic waters" as if to say that the Antarctic Ocean has
been recognized as the Australian territorial waters. Or even Sea Shepherd
insists that the Government of Australia dispatch navy ships to stop the
Japan's whaling activities. Besides, Sea Shepherd has already declared to
execute "Suicidal Kamikaze Attack" on the Japanese whaling fleet
consistently pursing lawful and peaceful whaling activities in the Antarctic
Ocean.
Considering
the fact that a cohort of terrorists "Sea Shepherd" has been fully
protected by the Government of Australia, their statements seem to
be probably threatening to the parties of the Antarctica Treaty and
particularly to Japan, thereby misleading us to think that the Government
of Australia has violated Article I of the Treaty, stipulating"Antarctica
shall be used for peaceful purposes only. There shall be prohibited, inter
alia, any measures of a military nature, such as the establishment of military
bases and fortifications, the carrying out of military maneuvers, as well as
the testing of any type of weapons."
The
Government of Australia and Sea Shepherd should keep it in mind that the Treaty
did not parse out the competing sovereignty claims; however, it established a
system of joint-governance by the Treaty parties, including Japan.
豪州が何故南氷洋における捕鯨反対を他国に比べ強硬な態度で臨むかが徐々に理解してきました。この捕鯨反対の背景には、単なる捕鯨反対ではなく、南極及び南氷洋の領土・領海問題が絡んでいるからだと判ってきました。豪州は、南極の略半分の領土とその周辺の南氷洋の領海を主張しております。（続く
ししながら、南極地域における領土主張は、南極条約１９５９年に採択され、１９６１年に発効した条約の第４条により凍結されております。現在の締約国数は、４８ヶ国。当然、この条約の原契約国（１２ヶ国）の中に、日本、豪州、ニュージーランド等も含まれており、領土主張する国として、豪州 （続く
ニュージーランド、英国等があり、日本は、米国、ロシアと並び領土主張をしない国に分類されている。しかし、ロシア及び米国は、南極での過去の活動を特別の権益として留保している。特に、豪州は、領土主張もあり、シーシェパードを活用し強固な捕鯨反対の活動をしていると考えられる。
本件に対する反応については、以下に列挙する。
@TedYokohama you ignorant twerp. I'm
an Aussie and I support Sea Shepherd. Whaling is barbaric and illegal and not
necessary. #SeaShepherd
お前は、無知の馬鹿者だ！私は、オーストラリア人であり、シーシェパードを支援している。捕鯨は、野蛮であり、違法で、不要だ。
此奴は、教育が必要である。
@maggieRspapa @SeaShepherd By
educating, you put in a concentration camp for brainwashing and/or torturing
me? Or even murdering me?
教育とは、何を意味するのか？洗脳或いは、拷問のため強制収容所に入れるというのか？或いは、私を殺害するというのか？
貴方は、シーシェパードのワトソンが日本の捕鯨従事者を脅迫するように私を脅迫しているのか？
@maggieRspapa Remember your Prime
Minister has been one of my followers on Twitter for the reason I can't
understand.
理由は、不明だが、貴国の首相がツッターで私をフォローしていることを忘れるな！
@maggieRspapa @SeaShepherd U
must answer me now! Otherwise, I will assume u have accepted my claim that u
will put me in a camp---
返事がなければ、私が言ったことを事実であると了解するがそれでもいいか？
@TedYokohama @seashepherd Ted
I don't believe in murdering any animal and i know you are just and animal too!
Sort of like a space chimp.
私は、動物を殺すことを良しとしない。お前は、丁度動物と同じだ”猿の惑星の猿”と同じだ。
とうとう、貴方は、本性を現しましたね。貴方こそ本当の教育が必要だ。
@TedYokohama @seashepherd Ted
you are very brave sitting at your murdered whale oil powered computer... Capt
Watson and the team are heros.
お前は、度胸良く、お前等が殺害したクジラの油で動くコンピューターの前に座ってられるな！ワトソンとその仲間は、英雄である。
Once upon a time, there was a continent called
"Australia" well known for its racial discrimination under the slogan
of "Yellow Peril".
昔々、あるところにオーストラリアと呼ばれる大陸がありました。そこは、黄禍論のスローガンの下で人種差別で有名なところでした。
“@TedYokohama: @maggieRspapa @seashepherd The
Possible Violation of Human Rights by One Aussie
http://yokohamated.typepad.jp/blog/2011/12/the-possible-violation-of-human-rights-by-one-aussie-.html”
bahahaaha
アハハハーーーー
Note:
Planet of Apes Series Depict Hatred toward the Asian
People (Yellow Race)
According
to Wikipedia written in Japanese, La Planète des singes in France, Planet of
the Apes in U.S.A., Monkey Planet in U.K., and 猿の惑星 in Japan is
said to be a story written based on its author Pierre Boulle's actual
experience in French Indochina during the Greater East Asia War.
Before
the outbreak of the war, Pierre Boulle was engaged in enslaving and exploiting
the Asian people in French Indochina. However, he was captured by Imperial
Japanese Forces and was sent to a camp where he thought he was thrown into a
position of the Asian people he used to exploit.
Therefore,
apes described in the movies are the Asian people. The movies depict his own
interpretation (biased against the Asian people) of how he was treated by
Japanese soldiers at POW camp. They are nothing but a mere expression of hatred
toward the Asian people, particularly Japan and her people who stood up for the
emancipation of the Asian people.
映画猿の惑星とは、何を意味しているのか。
フランス人プランテーション経営者であるブールが仏領インドシナにて現地の有色人種を使役していたところ、同じ有色人種である日本人の率いる軍の捕虜となった「立場の逆転」の経験を基に描かれたとされる ーウィキペヂィア
