Posted on 07/18/2004 7:43:24 PM PDT by samtheman
You know things are getting bad when a conference sponsored by seemingly mainstream groups like the Ocean Conservancy and the Pew Charitable Trusts includes a panel on "direct action" featuring the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's "Captain" Paul Watson. An open promoter of violence, Watson declares there's "nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win." Yesterday he told the self-described "seaweed rebels" at the conference on ocean health: "We can no longer afford to eat any seafood."
After announcing that Sea Shepherd is "proudly a pirate organization," Watson insisted:
... we have got to cease and desist and declare a taboo situation [on eating seafood] for at least another hundred years ... I guess that's going to go down not very well with some people, you know, that we advocate nobody eat fish at all.What's Watson's motivation? Click here to see video clips of Watson saying he "owed no allegiance to humanity" and "I have done everything I can to fight for his kind [whales] not our kind." Instead, his niche is "ramming ships and pissing people off" because fishermen, in Watson's words, are "the biggest bunch of sadistic bastards in the world" (click here for video).
Rainforest Action Network president Randy Hayes joined Watson on the "direct action" panel. Having previously argued that capitalism is "an absurd economic system," yesterday Hayes maintained that scientists are the problem, as they get in the way of green groups' agendas:
You know, I've been hearing too much about scientists here at this conference the last couple days, to be honest, from my standpoint of how you really organize and win a fight. I mean, let's just be serious. Common sense, good science, and reason are insufficient tools for orchestrating social change. I'm not at all suggesting that you have bad science, but don't let these goddamned scientists get up on too damned many panels, because you'll lose the war.Echoing Hayes' anti-science sentiments was Eileen Claussen -- a former State Department official who was a member of the Pew Oceans Commission (and now heads the Pew Center on Global Climate Change). Responding to a fisherman's complaint that ocean science isn't mature enough to use as a mandate to restrict fishing, she told the crowd: "I don't think you should delay acting on something because there is some uncertainty in the science. And I think we all agree on that."
I was going to suggest that this may be another navy France could sink, but it looks like they have more fight in them than the French are used to.
Sounds like something out of bad science fiction.
Guess we'll have to call in Rainbox Six.
Maybe the DNC can get some of these people to speak at the convention. After all, the part about Capitalism being an "absurd economic system" ought to be a big crowd-pleaser in Boston this month.
Also, they're Marxists disguised as Greens. Their real agenda isn't preserving life on the planet, its telling you how to live your life as dictated by central planners in some distant city.
""We can no longer afford to eat any seafood."
As someone who is allergic to shellfish and dislikes most fish, lemme be the first to agree.
EAT MOR CHIKIN!
these people sound even loonier than marxists. marxists like to tell people what to do, but for the most part, they don't care too much about animals.
these lunatics appear to have replaced one abstraction ("the proletariat") with another (sea animals).
FMCDH(BITS)
these people sound even loonier than marxists. marxists like to tell people what to do, but for the most part, they don't care too much about animals. these lunatics appear to have replaced one abstraction ("the proletariat") with another (sea animals).But that's the whole point. Marxists never cared about "the proletariat", either.
A Marxists is a Marxist is a Marxist and their goal is always the same: a Stalin Gulag; a Cambodian Killing Field.
Only the slogans differ, and then only slightly.
And to think that 48 Nobelists are in bed with this anti-science fanatic...
FMCDH(BITS)
Never heard of the guy before, Watson that is, but I'm glad this thread made me aware of him. One should view the videos that are linked. They are enlightening. Seems as if he is not only an eco-terrorist but also an atheist.
EAT MOR CHIKIN!
No can do abondigas, no fish meal to feed the chikins...
FMCDH(BITS)
"SSCSs mission is to stop fishing of which it disapproves. Its preferred methods? Ramming and sinking fishing ships, throwing butyric acid on their decks, and firing machine guns."
Hmmm, sounds like an opportunity for an enterprizing person to make some money. If one could acquire an old coast guard cutter - rearm it - and then provide protection to fishing fleets - for a fee of course. Unfortunately, our own country would treat such entenpeneurs(sp?) as criminals.............
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She has served as Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs and as a Special Assistant to President Clinton at the National Security Council , and has spent more than twenty years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She is a recipient of the Department of State's Career Achievement Award.
Who has time to worry about Al-Qaeda when the VRWC is out there eating sea-food?
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