Deeper Shade of Green

Seal hunt in Canada is a very controversial issue. And for a good reason. It is an annual government sponsored barbaric slaughter of baby seals - and no one is allowed to document it. Doing so is actually a crime in Canada.

European Union is poised to soon introduce a ban on imports of all seal products. Greenpeace, Sea Shepherds and other NGOs have worked hard at this and I congratulate them on a fantastic job. Our idiotic government is scrambling and pouring money into this sadistic venture just as the rug is being pulled under their feet.

I’m glad my tax money is well spent.

In response to the numerous daily inquiries that the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society receives, we have decided to ask Captain Paul Watson to respond to a few of the tougher questions. The questions were asked by Peter Brown, a film director who has worked with Sea Shepherd since 1982.

Full text can be found here

Peter Brown: Critics are saying that you have little compassion for the sealers who are just trying to feed their families. One sealer appears on You Tube asking for compassion. What is your response to this?

Captain Paul Watson: A sealer asking for compassion. That’s priceless. No one starves in Canada. The seal slaughter is already a glorified welfare program costing the taxpayers more money to support than it brings in. My answer to this is to pay the sealers not to kill seals just as we pay farmers in the prairies to not grow wheat. If Canada can pay farmers to not grow grain in a starving world then surely they should pay sealers to not kill seals for the fashion industry. If Canada paid the sealers to not kill seals, the Canadian taxpayers would save money and the sealer could feed his family, although I seriously doubt that the meager revenues the slaughter brings in makes much of a difference anyhow.

Peter Brown: What is your opinion of Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn?

Captain Paul Watson: He is just another stumbling, bumbling Fisheries Minister in a long chain of bumbling stumbling Fisheries Ministers rambling on about things they know nothing about. I’ve fought them all from Romeo LeBlance to Loyola Hearn. Most of them have been from Newfoundland like Brian Tobin and John Crosbie, and all of them have presided over the diminishment of the Fisheries because none of them ever seemed to grasp the ecological realities they were dealing with. Their sole concern was giving into the demands of the fishermen and the industries and they fielded a team of biostitutes to fabricate the science to justify the policies that led to the destruction of the Fisheries on both coasts.

Loyola Hearn is actually one of the more ignorant of the long line of fish czars we have had to deal with. But is easily manipulated and easily provoked.

We need to understand that he is a member of a government that contains Ministers who actually believe that dinosaurs went extinct because they could not fit on Noah’s ark.

Loyola Hearn served our cause well this year thanks to his foot and mouth affliction. It would be nice to see an intelligent man or woman managing Fisheries but lacking that, it’s good for a laugh or two to have hysterical Hearn harping hopelessly on about evil seal defenders and saintly seal clubbers. The-club-a seal-for-Jesus crowd is going to push their bloody and expensive agenda into the toilet bowel of ridiculous government programs as the rest of the world shakes its head and wonders just what it is in Ottawa that transforms common school teachers like Hearn into political right wing raving nut bars.