The drama over the Japanese whalers shouldn’t really surprise anyone, although I did have to shake my head when everyone was banging on about the two guys getting held hostage.

They did illegally board the vessel. What did they expect, a tea party with the captain and crew?

But before someone harpoons me, let me say I am 100% behind what the Sea Sherpherd Conservation Society is trying to achieve – the Japanese have to be stopped.

The sad part is they were only a few votes off being able to actually go back to whaling fulltime, which just goes to show what money can buy.

Now everyone has been asking about how low key our federal government has been about the whole issue. But really, what do we expect to happen?

It is all about imports, exports, trade partners and money and they are being very careful not to rock the whaling boat too much – which is sad in itself.

But before we all get on our high horse about the plight of those beautiful creatures, let he who has no sin cast the first stone or in this case harpoon.

It is not that long ago that we as a nation were turning a blind eye to what was going on in Timor while our politicians got their collective pictures taken in funny shirts with the Indonesian government.

We are currently preparing to go to the Beijing Olympics but have short-term memory loss at what has gone on in and is still going on in China to human beings.

Of course, Tibet is another word which shouldn’t be mentioned coming up to Olympics as we shouldn’t let politics or human rights interfere with sport.

But hey, don’t rock the boat or not only won’t they come out with their bat and ball and play with us but (shock, horror) they mightn’t trade with us either.

Even closer to home, like Kawana for instance, we are aghast when there is a proposed hostel along Nicklin Way where, I might add, there currently stands a motel that possibly has had all types of characters staying there with no complaints.

But now the government is proposing a centre to help people, we all want to protest.

An attitude resembling, “it is okay with me as long as it isn’t next door”– and I could be guilty of that as well.

But let’s not worry about humans nearly on our doorstep, get out of my way I’m boarding that whaling boat.

Now if we want to talk about the animal kingdom, what about battery hens.

I don’t see too many people protesting outside shops that sell eggs from one of the most inhumane practices that we continue to turn a blind eye to.

Like the chooks, that is only scratching the surface.

Of course previously mentioned, random sellers of pets, dogs, cats and the like that pumps them out like handbags and shoes with the future for most lying in a animal refuge, if they’re lucky. Why don’t we do something about that?

But back to the humans and on the complete other hand, there are tools around like Corey Delaney, who had the party in Victoria and is now some type of national celebrity.

Let me get this right. He has had television offers, radio and a chance to front a band all because he had total disregard for the police, the community and his family.

The Warrick Capper look-a-like should be strapped to the front of a Greenpeace boat with “Bloody Idiot” tattooed on his forehead and a sign telling the Japanese if you want to shoot something for “scientific research” shoot this idiot and tell us what makes him tick, so we can do something about the gene pool.

Now I know all the bleeding hearts out there will say he is only a kid, he needs some guidance and they are probably partially correct.

But his whole demeanour is just wrong.

My point, you may well ask? I am all for stopping the whaling, but I think we also need to look at a few other atrocities that are going on around us – both animal and human.