Posted on 02/16/2010 8:41:56 AM PST by at bay
I felt the statement fell under the BEST AVOIDANCE OF THE QUESTION catagory.
“Yeah. The whalers decks might get smelly. Big wow.”
Really smelly decks, that’s all?!
You are lying eco terrorist scumbag supporter.
Sea Shepherd’s Record of Violence
1977: Paul Watson, one of the founder members of Greenpeace, was expelled from the organisation after a campaign against sealing during which he threw the sealers’ clubs and skins into the sea. His actions temporarily cost Greenpeace their tax-exemption status in the US.
1977: Paul Watson establishes the “Sea Shepherd” organisation.
1979: A Sea Shepherd vessel rams the whaler “Sierra”.
1980: The “Sierra” is sunk in Lisbon harbour with the help of limpet mines. Sea Shepherd claims responsibility.
1981: Sea Shepherd sinks the two whaling vessels, Ibsa I and Ibsa II, in the Spanish harbour of Viga (Sole source Sea Shepherd. This has not been confirmed by any other source)
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1986: Sea Shepherd activists shoot at Faroese police with a line rifle and try to sink their rubber dinghies.
The vessel “Sea Shepherd” was ordered to leave Faroese territorial waters after attempting to obstruct the Faroese pilot whale harvest. The vessel ignored the order, and Faroese police tried unsuccessfully to board the ship. In the police report of Oct. 7,1986, it says: “One of the rubber dinghies was attacked directly by a so called “Speed Line” line rifle. The attack is considered to have endangered the lives of the police crew members seriously ... also, signal flares containing phosphorous (a substance which both burns and cauterizes) was thrown at the police. At a later stage the Sea Shepherd used so called “toads” (i.e. rotating iron spikes, pointed and sharp at both ends), against the rubber dinghies .. petrol was poured over the side of the ship ... whereupon signal flares were thrown from the “Sea Shepherd” in a miscarried attempt to set the petrol on fire.” Sea Shepherd accused the Faroese police of having shot at them with rifles. The police emphasize in their report that they only used tear gas and gas cartridges from shotguns.
1986: Sea Shepherd claims responsibility for the sinking of two whaling vessels in Reykjavik, Iceland, and for malicious damage to the whaling station not far from the town. The act was carried out by two US citizens, one of them, Rodney Corronado, is now wanted in the US for several incidents of serious animal rights terrorism.
1988: Paul Watson arrives in Iceland demanding to be held responsible for the sinking of the whaling vessels in Reykjavik in 1986. He is arrested and held for questioning. He realizes that he can risk facing several years imprisonment. In a press release from the Icelandic Ministry of Justice it says: “At questioning Paul Watson has admitted that he has given some remarks that connect him with the sabotage, but in spite of this he now claims that he neither took part in the planning nor the execution of the sabotage.” There was no evidence incriminating Watson. He was ordered to leave the country and declared persona non grata in Iceland
1991: Mr A. Ferreira, A US crew member on a Mexican fishing vessel, reports to his senator that Sea Shepherd rammed his vessel causing considerable damage. Some of Sea Shepherd’s crew were armed with rifles. Senator John Seymour replies: “Your situation does not fall under my jurisdiction. I have therefore forwarded your letter to the American Tunaboat Association.”
1991: Scott Trimmingham, president of Sea Shepherd quits in protest. “We had rules about not hurting anyone, about not using weapons. I left because those rules and that philosophy seems to be changing,” he said to “Outside” magazine (Sept. 1991).
Paul Watson admits that there are arms on board “Sea Shepherd”. “We confront dangerous people. As the captain, it is my responsibility to protect the lives of my crew ... Therefore, I have prepared myself for the possibility of defending my crew in a situation that could go never occur, but if it does I will use firearms to first intimidate and then to defend,” said Watson to the Los Angeles Free Weekly (April 24, 1992).
Seattle Times columnist Alston Chase comments thus on Sea Shepherds relationship to weapons: “The business of Sea Shepherd is confrontation, whereby these sailor activists try to provoke others to attack. Crying self-defence in these circumstances is like the gunfighter who starts a quarrel to justify duelling his enemy.” (The Seattle Times, July 1, 1991).
1992: Sea Shepherd makes unsuccessful attempts at ramming three Costa Rican fishing vessels. In a written complaint to the local authorities the fishermen report that the Sea Shepherd crew shot at them with bullets containing a red substance, hitting two of them and causing them great pain.
1992: Sea Shepherd makes unsuccessful attempt at scuttling the combined minke whaling and fishing vessel “Nybræna” at her moorings in the Lofoten Islands. The vessel was salvaged, but the water had caused considerable damage.
1993: Paul Watson orders the crew on board the Sea Shepherd vessel “Edward Abbey” (formerly US Navy) to open cannon fire at a Japanese fishing vessel.
The following transcript stems from the 1993 Yorkshire Television documentary “Defenders of the Wild - Ocean Rider”
Paul Watson (over the radio): We are going to ram you!
Stand clear!
A Taiwanese drift-netter (over the radio): “Why are you
crushing our ship?”
Paul Watson: “You are killing too many dolphins ..
and you insulted us by calling us creeps.”
From another confrontation with a Japanese fishing vessel:
Narrator: Sea Shepherd is ready to ram again.
Now Paul Watson wants the Edward Abbey to fire directly
at the drift-netters.
Watson: “Fire a couple in the stern right at the water line.
Nobody’s there.”
Narrator: “To the relief of many of the crew members the
order is not carried out. The Edward Abbey fires a cannon
shot across its bow. Still the Japanese ship does not stop.”
1993: Sea Shepherd makes an unsuccesful attempt at scuttling the combined minke whaling and fishing vessel “Senet” at her moorings in Gressvik. The vessel was salvaged, but the water had caused some damage.
1993: Sea Shepherd concludes that the organisation has sunk 8 ships and rammed and damaged a further 6.
Dismissed from the IWC
After the sinking of the Icelandic whaling vessels in 1986, Sea Shepherd lost its status as observer at the IWC. The organisation claims that it is merely enforcing IWC rules. In February 1994, IWC Secretary, Ray Gambell, declared to NTB (the Norwegian Telegram Agency) that the IWC and all its member states ardently condemn Sea Shepherd’s acts of terrorism.
Wait.. that’s a valid category?
*checks notes*
Crud!
I’ll be certain to send you a full sized Kyokujitsu-ki.
How many do you want?
Got bigotry?
Got “I like playing a phony race card like the liberals do”?
Hey, you’re the one who keeps mentioning the Kyokujitsu-ki.
Not me.
Obviously you have a problem.
Phony?
Hardly.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2452542/posts?page=367#367
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2452542/posts?page=40#40
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2452542/posts?page=20#20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFGmR99-D0k&NR=1
Intentional ramming is illegal.
In the linked video, Sea Shepherd rammed intentionally.
What should be done to them for it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFGmR99-D0k&NR=1
You still have no answer for any of the proofs shown of illegal actions on the part of Sea Shepherd, do yyou.
The Lord High Admiral has resurfaced.
He keep tossing out his outright lies.
It is in my world. 8D
Whadayou saying? I’m a whale? Well since I’m right and you’re wrong I guess that makes me a right whale. Bonsai!
You need rest.
“And then cannon hosing the survivors? What am I missing here?
The need to keep a hostile ship from using its photonic disruptors.”
I wish you would have expanded on that answer because I have no idea what that is. Is it a laser? If so, I might have a problem with that— it
could blind someone. I notice SS got water cannons this year and I think LRADS as well. The whalers LRADS were aimed at the inflight helicopter by the poachers, and word is that’s very dangerous.
I suspect, like the jolly Roger flag, the green light is no more than bluster in the psychological war being waged.
I haven’t responded to the litany if grievances that have been posted against Watson herein. It could be as twisted as making me out to be irresponsible for confronting traitors who believed they owned the park.
I doubt the other freepers that were there that day share that opinion.
The traitors, depicted in Michael Moore’s crocumentary eating cookies, showed their true colors when they as a mob surrounded the patrol cars escorting their leader to jail.
That anyone would reference an Indy media version of those events on this thread is pretty ridiculous.
Pretty unlikely I’m a right whale, tho ‘. There’s only a few thousand of us left in the whole world. In fact, I’ve been protected since 1935 when much of the world thought I might become extinct.
Yes, you guys plundered me to the point of extinction. Nowadays some people are conning the world by pretending to do research on whales, but only slaughtering them for a fast buck.
Apologists say “They’re only taking dumdedum per cent, how bad can that be?”
kinda reminds me of ol Saddam Hussein sayin “ look, when I came to power there were 38 million iraquis, now there are over 40 million, so how bad could I be?”
Anyway, we’re happy if you watch us, but could you do us a favor and never hunt us again? Many thanks.
We're going to hunt you -- strictly for scientific research of course -- and fire a harpoon into your slick, greasy side -- strictly for scientific research again -- then haul you alongside the ship. Then we are going to haul you into the port, cut you up, use your blubber for lamp oil and eat your flesh.
All in the name of science, of course.
So have another donut.
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