Who Hit Who? Apart from the grammar, there are problems with this piece I’ve seen linked to by others. The author, Robert Morningstar, a “computer systems and imaging specialist”, says he wrote this on behalf of the captain, crew and passengers of the USS Greenville “all of whom had the duty and the right to be there.” He goes to great lengths to assert that the sub and the US Navy could not possibly have been remiss in the incident, claiming that the Ehime Maru was not really an innocent fishing vessel but probably had stealth capability, was stalking the submarine for Japanese intelligence-gathering and R&D purposes, and that it hit the sub rather than vice versa. He uses “patriot” phraseology which identifies him with the radical right. (He says he’s written for the “American Friends and Patriots Network”; a web search on that comes up with nothing, but the “American Patriot Friends Network” [“we believe Patriots should rule America”] is there and clearly comes from militia territory on the political map.)