Posted on 01/11/2006 7:50:02 PM PST by george76
“We’re not a protest organization, we’re a policing organization,” Paul Watson...of his Sea Shepherd...
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...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.
SSCS’s mission is to stop fishing...
Its preferred methods?
Ramming and sinking fishing ships, throwing butyric acid on their decks, and firing machine guns. Watson argues that United Nations resolutions authorize him to commit violent acts.
But he regularly interferes with fisherman and hunters who are committing no crime.
He serves as judge, jury, and executioner -- while enjoying the same tax-exempt status as universities and churches.
Some of the animal-rights movement’s most notorious terrorists got their start with SSCS.
One of them, convicted arsonist Rodney Coronado, had Watson’s approval to plan and execute an attack on Iceland’s whaling industry.
He and a colleague sank two of the fleet’s four ships and destroyed a processing facility.
Greenpeace, of which Watson was a founder...
Soon after Watson’s eviction from Greenpeace, Sea Shepherd and its ship-ramming philosophy were born.
Watson’s love for marine life doesn’t stop him from eating fish...
Paul Watson craves attention...
In addition to taking credit for inventing tree-spiking, Watson ...
Of course, the money doesn’t hurt, either...
Sea Shepherd is a violent organization. Its purpose is to ram and sink ships...
(Excerpt) Read more at activistcash.com ...
"Rodney Coronado has long been involved with criminal groups such as the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), which the FBI has identified as the country’s most dangerous domestic terrorist threat, and the special-interest ALF subset known as SHAC."
"He was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison for the 1992 arson of a Michigan State University research laboratory."
"He admitted to at least six other arsons in a November 30, 2002 speech. In January 2003, he demonstrated to a group gathered at American University the “correct” way to build a firebomb out of household materials."
"And Paul Watson gave him his start."
Anybody out killing whales is pretty scummy - I don’t support vigleanteism but I don’t get as upset about when they go after genuine bad guys.
Now if these ram a boat in U.S. waters we should do something about it. But if whalers are out in international waters, breaking treaties that we signed and the whalers are not
U.S. registered then this seems to fall in a category where I would not want to see government resources spent.
If anything we should enforce the treaty too. Policing collisions between two foreign ships in international waters isn’t really our job.
” Paul Watson...of Sea Shepherd
In addition to taking credit for inventing tree-spiking, Watson ...
Of course, the money doesn’t hurt, either...
Sea Shepherd is a violent organization. Its purpose is to ram and sink ships...”
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Incredible that this killer is allowed to continue breathing let alone sailing his ship of death on the high seas.
Thanks george76.
Thanks for the ping.
No nation should waste any effort or funds going after these scum other than to blow Paul Watson and his pirate ships right out of the water, forget about trying to arrest and prosecute them. Make him an example and it’s doubtful any will follow in his footsteps.
Tree spiking? They should have put him away back then. Setting a booby trap than can kill is (or at least should be) a major felony.
But of the various things in the world to get upset about, a vigilante attacking illegal non-American whaling ships is low on my list... These are not “law abiding fishermen.”
Tree spiking is the coward way.
People could be killed.
>>Tree spiking is the coward way.
People could be killed.<<
When business owners set booby traps after being robbed over and over they often get charged - its a travesty to treat tree spikers should get off easier.
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