On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:42:10 -0400, Fred Williams
<unclefred@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> Canadian Fisheries, Coast Guard, and RCMP have combined to arrest
the
>captain and first officer of the Sea Shephard ****p, the Farley Mowat in
>the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The Sea Shephard Society says the ****p was
>in international waters and the Fisheries Dept. says it was in Canadian
>waters. RCMP officers boarded the vessel with guns drawn and used
>force against at least one crew member. (At least they didn't use
>tasers). This story is from the Sea Shephard web Site,
><http://www.seashepherd.org/>
>
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>04/12/2008
>
>Hysterical Hearn Hatefully Harasses Harp Seal Heroes
>
>A clearly agitated Loyola Hearn, Canada’s Minister of Fishy Business
>held a media conference in Ottawa on Saturday to deliver a vindictive
>and clearly angry denunciation of Captain Paul Watson and the crew of
>the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ****p Farley Mowat.
>
>Unable to defend the incompetence of the Department of Fisheries and
>Oceans, Hearn decided to get personal by referring to the Sea Shepherd
>Conservation Society as “A bunch of money-sucking manipulators." Hearn
>also said, "And their sole aim is to try to suck as much money out of
>the pockets of people who really don't know what's going on."
>
>Hearn accused Captain Watson of directing the campaign from his “posh
>New York hotel suite where he was dining on steak and lobster.” That
>was a revelation to Captain Watson who is a vegetarian and last night
>slept on the couch of a friend in Brooklyn.
>
>“Mr. Hearn has the resources of the RCMP at his disposal and they can
>check my credit card records and they will find just how frugal we
>are,” said Captain Watson, “but why let evidence and the facts get in
>the way of good propaganda spin?”
>
>Captain Watson is currently driving to Cape Breton Island from New York
>City. “I know that Hearn seems to think we are fabulously wealthy but
>the fact is that the flight from New York to Sydney is simply too
>expensive for me to justify,” said Captain Watson.
>
>Ironically the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is the smallest and the
>most under-funded group opposing the seal slaughter. The crew are
>volunteers. “I wish we were as wealthy as Hearn thinks we are, but no
>such luck,” added Watson.
>
>In authorizing the unlawful boarding of a foreign yacht in international
>waters, Hearn said, "We will continue to protect sealers while ensuring
>the sustainable and humane management of the hunt so it continues to
>provide economic op****tunities for Canada's coastal communities in the
>future."
>
>The question is; what is Hearn protecting the sealers from? The Sea
>Shepherd crew are armed with cameras. The only threat to the safety of
>the sealers seems to be from the Canadian government. Hearn sent
>hundreds of flimsy wooden and aluminum hulled vessels into very
>treacherous ice conditions and because of Hearn’s incompetence and his
>political ambitions four sealers are now dead. It was his policies that
>killed these men and now he is using Sea Shepherd to distract from his
>incompetence by focusing the anger of the sealers towards hating both
>the seals and those who defend them and of course the sealers are dumb
>enough to be easily persuaded.
>
>The Canadian Coast Guard along with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
>and Federal Fisheries officers staged an armed boarding of a moving
>Dutch registered yacht in international waters. This was a dangerous
>and desperate attack. The Farley Mowat crew did not resist the boarding
>for fear that some of the Canadian officers would be hurt.
>
>Despite this the Federal boarding party was rude, aggressive and
>violent. Amber Paarman, 24 of Capetown, South Africa was roughed up and
>received a blow to the head when she tried to resist being manhandled
>by a Fisheries Officer. It is not known if any other crew have been
>injured and the crew are not feeling very safe being under tow by the
>Canadian Coast Guard who have admitted they lack both a manual and
>experience in towing vessels in ice.
>
>In seizing the Farley Mowat and arresting the Sea Shepherd crew Loyola
>Hearn has done something that Sea Shepherd hoped he would do but we did
>not believe he was stupid enough to do – an unlawful boarding of
>foreign registered vessel in international waters. With the European
>Parliament on the brink of voting to ban seal products into the
>European market, Loyola Hearn decides to arrest Europeans for
>the “crime” of documenting incidents of cruelty on the ice.
>
>The man has not even read Managing Fisheries for Dummies and in his zeal
>to kiss the bottoms of the seal killing crowd he has thrown reason out
>the window and is now shooting ad hominem attacks from the hip and
>letting his mouth run away with hysterical mutterings that are both
>incoherent and mis-leading. Loyola Hearn is certainly the latest Nufie
>joke and the joke is about to backfire in his face.
>We are approaching the end of days for the barbaric and sadistic seal
>slaughter industry. And Loyola Hearn seems to be the right Minister in
>the Right place with the right foot in his mouth to assist us in
>bringing about the day when seals will be left unmolested and unharmed
>in their nurseries.
>
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