Hayden Panettiere's Arrest Warrant, Absent From Your News  
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

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Of all the "celebrity" reporting the media likes to do, they dedicate tiny blurbs and obscure little articles for many things celebrities do that are actually meaningful - which the mass media purposely does to distract us from the bigger issues at hand, I think.  And when a celebrity arrest occurs, the mug shot makes it to the front page of blogs everywhere...except when the warrant is issued for activism.

Why is that?  Hmmm.

Hayden Panettiere, for example.  You'll see photographs of the 18-year-old actress from NBC's Heroes series, in the middle of magazines walking her dog or going to the store.  But when Japan issued an arrest warrant just weeks ago for the Grammy nominee over a protest she attended with the Save the Whales Again! organization, it hardly made a ripple in the news front.

Panettiere was there for a confrontation with Japanese fisherman to protest the needless slaughter of dolphins and whales (which you can find out more about here).  The activists blocked a fishing boat and attempted to get to a pod of dolphins before the fishermen could.  They then went straight to the shore - and an airport - so as not to get arrested for trespassing.

Hayden Panettiere, Australian actress Isabel Lucas, author Peter Heller, pro surfer Karina Petroni, and Dave Rastovich and his wife Hannah from Surfers for Cetaceans, swam in the Taiji waters in late October, that were actually stained red with blood from all the killings of dolphins and whales for their meat.  The peaceful protestors were prodded by poles and harassed by local fishermen.  The fishermen in the small village of Taiji resumed the hunt less than 24 hours after Hayden and gang left.

Hayden said recently in a statement to Access Hollywood, "Obviously this issue has generated defensive behavior on the part of both the Japanese authorities and fishermen.  I have grown up hearing - and adhering to - this phrase:  'condemnation without investigation dooms one to everlasting ignorance.'

"We must unite as a world to solve our increasing international environmental crises.  We can no longer hide out-dated, senseless cultural traditions and lazy, bad habits that are resulting in the annihilation of our planet's resources and the extinction of our species."

Go Hayden! 

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