Pete Bethune Blasts Sea Shepherd In Online Letter Of Resignation (Ady Gil not sunk by Japanese)

Ecorazzi ^ | October 5, 2010 | Michael dEstries

[Pan_Yan]

Bethune blasts Paul Watson as 'morally bankrupt' and admits the Ady Gil was scuttled on Watson's orders as many of us speculated. He also relates that several crew members told him that Watson faked getting shot in Season 1 as many of us speculated as well. This all maked Discovery/Animal Planet complicit in lying.

[Pan_Yan]

Bethune blasts Watson for lying. Special thanks to Stegall Tx for giving me the link.

Hippies Failing Badly!^TM

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[Virginia Ridgerunner]

WORST SAILORS EVER!

[MarineBrat]

SSCS does not need to lie.

Yes they do, they're leftists. Leftists always lie. They cheat and steal and litter, and they manipulate mommy and daddy to pick up the pieces for them.

[Trust but Verify]

South Park is probably the only entity that can parody the Sea Shepherds and be more outrageous than they are themselves. I have watched a couple episodes out of curiosity and to say they are total doofuses is an insult to doofuses.

[fuzzybutt]

This guy is the bald raving lunitic on the show, as opposed to all the rest of the raving lunitics on that show.

Of course they are lying about everything, they are leftist.

[fuzzybutt]

Sorry, lunitic should be lunatic.

[lovesdogs]

Paul Watson is an idiot. Pete Bethune was a likable sort of guy even to those of us who think the SS mission is liberalism on crack. The scene where Bethune related the story about SS girls smelling like chipmunks was priceless as was the scene when he set the deck afire by accident.

Watson had a guy here who might have won some people to his side. But I think his ego wouldn’t let him do it. He would rather go on and on with the same old garbage....Japanese bad, SS good. I cannot think that Animal Planet will be pleased by this turn of events from a ratings point of view.

[Pan_Yan]

I cannot think that Animal Planet will be pleased by this turn of events from a ratings point of view.

I wonder how much Animal Planet was complicit in the false stories. They had to have known about the scuttling of the Ady Gil. They obviously knew about the bow and arrows because they showed Bethune discussing the plan in detail before the Ady Gil went to sea. And I don't think they would have believed the fake shooting story any more than the crew did, yet they played it up anyway. Discovery/ Animal Planet's credibility is going to take a big hit on this.

[Pan_Yan]

If you read all the way down to the bottom of the article it says Ady Gil (the man) supports Bethune over Watson 100%. That's a big blow to the SSCS since the guy donated $3,000,000 to the cause. This will effectively end the speculation that there would be an Ady Gil II. He won't donate any more money and Bethune won't build another boat for the Sea Shepherds.

[arthurus]

So they lie. They are leftists. They don’t believe they are lying. Whatever they say is True because they say it. That is leftist dogma. Reality is a mental construct and a leftist with the proper feelings creates Truth by saying something.

[arthurus]

When a Leftist says that someone else is lying the translation is that the "liar" is saying something not in accord with the Party Line as it is right now!

[Pan_Yan]

And around here we love exposing leftist lying, especially when it will cost them money, or it involves a Japanese court, and in this case both. Damaging the credibility of a enviro wacko television network is just a bonus.

[Pan_Yan]

The transcripts of Bethune and Watson's emails are up here. Boy is it getting nasty.

[Poundstone]

Any group whose flagship is called the “Bob Barker” is automatically the subject of ridicule.

[tcrlaf]

Ady Gil Not Sunk by the Japanese??
WHO KNEW???!!!!

Anybody who has seen the video can see that this moron ACCELERATED in to the path of the ship!!

[tlb]

>>> Bethune blasts Paul Watson as ‘morally bankrupt’ and admits the Ady Gil was scuttled on Watson’s orders as many of us speculated.

Whether by negligent and incompetent Ady Gil ship ship-handling, or by way of deliberately putting it in the line of the whaler, the bat-boat was cut in two. Totally open to the sea and taking on more water as they towed it, the boat was useless.

Like with a seriously damaged warship the best option would be to scuttle if they intended to keep the other ships in action, instead of breaking off and towing.

It would seem the lie is the one we already understood. The cause of the ramming. Loss by scuttling after the collision seems like hairsplitting. Which is ironic considering the shaved head.

Of course either way, the world is a vampire.

[tlb]

and PS...

There was a lot of puzzlement over how Animal Planet glossed over the reasoning why half the crew jumped ship between episodes, requiring them to fill deckcrew billets by pulling women out of the galley. Now we know.

Animal Planet doesn’t play fair with their viewers. Absolutely confirmed.

[Poundstone]

Any group whose flagship is called the “Bob Barker” is automatically the subject of ridicule.

[Pan_Yan]

Any group whose flagship is called the “Bob Barker” is automatically the subject of ridicule.

Actually, their flag ship is the Steve Irwin. Their previous flagship, the Farley Mowat was confiscated by the Canadians several years ago and is still in custody.