Commentary by Captain Paul Watson
Memo from Sea Shepherd to Japanese whalers:

It’s time to give this “eco-terrorism” spiel a rest.

No one’s buying it, whaler dudes. Your public relations firms keep pumping it out, but the message is falling on deaf ears.

Stand back and look at yourself. This is the 21st Century, and you bozos are still killing whales. Talk about old school. Get with it. Killing whales is medieval, and well if I were Japanese, I would be downright embarrassed just as I am embarrassed as a Canadian to be associated with the barbarically cruel slaughter of baby seals. So, let’s get down to some facts. Just what crimes are we Sea Shepherds committing? Please inform us. Better yet, if we are committing a crime, how about having some legal authority actually charge us with a crime. Maybe you should try suing us?

The definition of a criminal is someone who has been convicted of a crime, and in Sea Shepherd’s entire history we have not had a single criminal felony conviction. And we’ve never been sued. We’ve also never injured anyone.

We have not been charged with any maritime violations. Australia has not laid any charges against us, nor has the Netherlands. Not even Japan.

So it’s all very well to be mouthing off about us being criminals and “eco-terrorists” but it’s all just talk now, isn’t it?

Let’s see, what have we done to you poor little defenseless whaler dudes? We tossed some stink bombs on your deck. We shone some bright lights at you. We played Black Samurai to you on the VHF radio. Pretty heavy stuff I guess.

But you responded with concussion grenades, bullets, Long Range Acoustical Weapons, you rammed our ships, and you destroyed one of our vessels when you deliberately rammed and sank our vessel Ady Gil.

You accuse us of throwing acid at you, when in fact we toss stink bombs made of rotten butter, and yes technically it’s butyric acid like orange juice is citric acid and milk is lactic acid, but the stuff has a PH less than beer. Stop trying to convince the world we’re throwing sulfuric acid in your faces. We’re not. It’s actually biodegradable, non-toxic, non corrosive, and organic.

Now, let’s look at what you blokes are doing. Aside from destroying one ship and damaging the other two and being violent towards us, you’re killing endangered Fin whales in an established international whale sanctuary in violation of a global moratorium on whaling. You’re also in violation of the Antarctic Treaty.

You may call us terrorists, yet we are not banned from flying on commercial flights, we have valid passports, and we are allowed to travel freely. I can even travel to Japan, if I so desired.

Now, you guys on the other hand are not allowed into Australian or New Zealand ports. You are not allowed into the French territories. Why? Because you’re in violation of international conservation law, and you have been issued a contempt order by the Australian Federal Court for refusing to cease your illegal whaling activities in the Australian Antarctic Territories.

You asked Australia to ban Sea Shepherd from Australian ports but they refused. Yeah, I know it was a little humiliating but you see, crime does not pay guys.

Even the Indonesians kicked you out of their country last year.

Now Australia is looking at making it a law for anyone in Australia to assist in your illegal whaling activities. It’s not illegal for australians to assist Sea Shepherd activities. So who are the terrorists now?

There is also the little matter of your association with organized crime. The Yakuza is thick as thieves with your boys on the whaling boats? It’s interesting that you’ve never even tried to deny this. It’s not wise to deny the tattooed thugs from the sewers of Tokyo is it?

And you really should be ashamed at being welfare cases. Your pathetic little industry would not survive a month without the generous handouts of taxpayer’s money you keep getting handed to you, thanks to your contacts with the Yakuza and corrupt government officials.

You fill the oceans with blood and have the audacity to accuse us of being violent, despite the fact that we have never hurt a single person....

Source: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

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