Stam,

I meant no disrespect to the Coast Guard. I only meant to say that it wasn't the intent of the lawbreaking whalers to "waste" the whale. They were arrested and taken into custody in the middle of the hunt, and the Coast Guard cut the lines to the whale and allowed it to suffer until it finally died and sank. While almost no one can condone the acts of the whalers, even if one believes that it was a political act, I personally believe that the fact that the whale was allowed to continue to suffer and wasted cannot be condoned either.