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  • Paul Watson: Terrorist, saint, ecologist? (

    04/20/2008 9:27:48 PM PDT · by Clive · 4 replies · 76+ views
    Halifax Chronicle-Herald ^ | 2008-04-19 | Jim Meek
    PAUL WATSON, high-seas "terrorist": That’s how Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams describes Watson, the anti-whaling activist who runs a side business as an anti-sealing protester. Watson, who was born in Toronto and raised in New Brunswick, has used his vessels as battering rams for more than a decade now. After he transforms his old scows into weapons, sailors and whalers tend to get out of his way – which is Watson’s goal, after all. He particularly enjoys using this tactic against whaling vessels. (For evidence, see the New Yorker profile on Watson in the magazine’s Nov. 5, 2007, edition.)...