Sea Shepperd Protest Ship Under Attack From Canadian Coast Guard

How come this icebreaker isn't up in the Arctic, protecting our sovereign territory from invading Russians, or Chinese, Or Americans...........?

Keeping the anti-sealing crowd from hurting themselves is more important.

Personally, I'm inclined to let Darwin take over if they are so bent on hurting the people who are there to protect them.

The Canadian government will protect you no matter if you want its brand of protection or not.

The Coast Guard ship assigned to harass the Farley Mowatt ignored a distress call from a sealing ship while ramming and chasing the Sea Shepherd ship. It was also observed running over seals on the ice in it's efforts. Clearly it is not there to offer any kind of assistance to anybody, and the accusation by the Coast Guard, that the Farley Mowatt intentionally tried to get itself rammed, is so completely ludicrous as to defy even rational address! Unless you believe the entire crew has taken a pact of suicide.

I have no problem with sealers killing and eating mature seals as part of a normal hunting season. On that I am sure I am at great odds with the Sea Shepherd society on. But allowing people to club pups so that rich women in Europe can wear their white fur, in this day and age, is barbaric.

Am I allowed to go shooting baby deer fawns with my bow and skinning them to sell their pretty white-spotted hides? NO. I'd be strung up! So why the hell do we allow people on the other side of the country to do that to seal infants?

Yo Sgt! Are you allowed to distort facts and reality either?

That would be a big negatory on that one.

"Am I allowed to go shooting baby deer fawns with my bow and skinning them to sell their pretty white-spotted hides? NO. I'd be strung up! So why the hell do we allow people on the other side of the country to do that to seal infants?"

Try shooting dead eagles and bears (etc) for Chinese herbal "medicine", and that's the same thing as killing animals for decorative reasons. There's a case to be made when animal hide is used to make real clothing where it's required, but I agree with you that killing for decorative clothing (i.e., profits alone) is frivolous and barbaric.

Agreed,
Although I think you'd be hard pressed to find any Inuit cold-blooded enough to kill a harp seal pup to make up a nice set of mittens. They use adult seals for this purpose.

Wullu, please indicate what facts I have distorted. There are two versions to this story, (until we get to see the video from the protest ship that they claim supports their theory. The Canadian government grounded the helicopter that was scheduled to get that video, btw).

I support (for the most part - that the Canadian Coast Guard was the most at fault for the collision and intended the collision) the Sea Shepperd Society version of events. Clearly you are siding with the Canadian Coast Guard's version of events. I have not distorted any facts, I have simply re-stated the Sea Shepherd Society's version of events.

I support the ministers position and that the protestors ship is in Canadian waters illegally and had intuded unlawfully in the hunt.

Where is the friggin NAVY?

"the protestors ship is in Canadian waters illegally and had intuded unlawfully in the hunt."

The "law" really has nothing to do with anything that's taking place here. The protest has to do with philosophical issues, not issues of legality. Often people confuse what's right and wrong with what's legal and what's illegal but the two concepts are not at all the same thing.

Another thing, clubbing to death baby seals can hardly be described as hunting and it's a misuse of the word. The seal killing spree is a private business venture for profits only.

Because "everyone knows" that seals threaten the cod fishery?
Oh...........that's right....the cod fishery is all ready dead (thanks to the same people clubbing seal pups). Nope! Can't think of ANY reason for the seal "hunt"!

For video of the ramming....from the Farley Mowat, check out CKA Canuck tube in the misc. category

Updates:

April 3 - Canadian Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Loyola Hearn announces that the Sea Shepherd crew is being charged for deliberately trying to get rammed by the Coast Guard.

April 4 - Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s ship, the Farley Mowat, was attacked this morning by a mob of 30-40 angry fishermen. The attack took place while berthed in the French islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. The Farley Mowat was berthed in St. Pierre to transfer video footage of the Canadian seal slaughter onto shore and await the resumption of the slaughter, which was temporarily suspended after the death of four sealers. The mob was likely organized by local officials and contacts within the DFO and Coast Guard, imho.

April 5 - The European Parliment is considering a ban on seal products - the Canadian government is in Europe, strongly lobbying against such a ban.

April 6 - Sea Shepherd Society chairman Paul Watson states that any attempt to board his vessel shall be considered an act of war (I found that a rather silly statement, considering the Canadian government would be only too happy to fire a missile into the side of the Farley Mowatt). They also state that they will refuse any request to be brought under tow, given the Canadian Coast Guard's obvious lack of skill in that area.

Canada Violates French Territorial Waters to Spy on Sea Shepherd

This morning, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's ship, the Farley Mowat, was overflown six times by an aircraft bearing the marks of the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO).

The Farley Mowat and her crew were anchored off the French island of Miquelon. This meant that the Canadian aircraft had entered French airspace to spy on Sea Shepherd. This is likely heavy surveillance activity prior to a planned action, possibly involving RCMP anti-terrorism units in conjunction with the Canadian Coast Guard.

April 3 - Canadian Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Loyola Hearn announces that the Sea Shepherd crew is being charged for deliberately trying to get rammed by the Coast Guard.

WTF?
there is a charge for delibrately trying to get rammed ???

The video of the handwringers clearly shows the Canadian Coastguard Ice breaker intercepting the pirate ship in close proximaty of men on the ice.

My take is the Icebreaker prevented the crazies from raming the men on the ice. The video clearly shows the pirate ship on course for the sealers.

Sink-them.