Thursday, February 02, 2006

Sea Sheperd

As I have made clear in a previous post, I loathe Greenpeace, but Sea Sheperd are definitely a bigger, scarier bunch of nutters:

We’re not a protest organization, we’re a policing organization,” Paul Watson has said of his Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS). A pirate organization is more like it. Sporting the skull and crossbones, his black or battleship-gray ships sail menacingly through the waves. They are painted with the names of the boats Watson has rammed and sunk.

The ships are fitted with water cannons, a concrete-filled bow made for ramming, and an attachment dubbed the “can opener” that can tear open a boat’s hull. In his book Earth Warrior, David Morris writes that Watson wears a long bowie knife at his side and carries AK-47s on board. He blasts Richard Wagner’s rousing “Ride of the Valkyries” to herald his arrival and terrify his victims.

How very Apolcalypse Now. I thought playing music to scare the enemy was a thing reserved for crazed militants. Good to see there's nutjobs on both sides of the polictical spectrum.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Im glad you have an opinion. The bad thing is you dont look at all the good work they do to save animals and nature instead you focus on one person and miss interpret them. They act insted of just talk thats what they do and that is what they mean.

3:55 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So Sea Sheperd use direct action methods you don't approve of to defend marine life. That's the way it goes, mate. Life ain't like in the movies. If Capt. Paul Watson has to ram a ship or play some Wagner to save some whales, then so be it. Maybe he'll expand his campaign to include the Abos as well. God knows they need help, too. Crikey.

8:03 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

For me, Paul Watson is JESUS himself and all of those who help him save marine life are his apostles. They should kill every one of those sealers in the same manner that they kill the seals. Direct action is just not enough to stop those murderers. Unfortunately, VERY few people in the world are as or as good as Paul and his crew. GOD bless you Paul, and every one else on earth who helps animals. I hope millions more join you around the world.

12:47 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Never stop what you do Paul, you are an angel, a real angel. Its just too bad that there arent billions of you on this earth to stop those monsters, Satan´s children is what those killers are.

12:50 pm  

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