Sea No Evil

Jon has just been added to the Sea No Evil Art show.

Check out this video, this is the piece Jon’s donating!!!

On Saturday 12th July 2008 the Sea No Evil Art Benefit will take place at the Riverside Art Museum located in the historic Downtown District of Riverside , California . To Die For is once again proud to work with Monster Media and give something back to the beautiful creatures of our ocean . This Art benefit is to raise money and awareness for Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a non-profit organization that is passionately dedicated to preserving the health of the worlds ocean and saving endangered mammals that are needlessly and mercilessly hunted and brutally slaughtered for nefarious purposes.

All of the staff here at To Die For feel very passionate about this cause and the importance to help create public awareness . After the success we had with last years event featuring artists such as Shepherd Fairy form OBEY and our very own DEPH from To Die For we have kept the momentum going and have brought together what we think are some of the best tattooists in the world to donate artwork. On top of this, RVCA have also donated their time and art with some amazing pieces . All of the the donated art will be available for purchase through silent auction bidding on Saturday 12th July 2008.

“Everything about this benefit is amazing”, says To Die For co-owner Jason Welsher. “To see this many people come together for such a special cause is inspiring and the support we’ve had from the To Die For artists donating their art and time is something we are truly grateful for” .

Captain Paul Watson , Founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, will speak about the importance of his life’s work. Renowned artist Shepherd Fairey will DJ in the art gallery and acclaimed singer songwriter Matt Costa will Perform on the roof of the museum. Free drinks will be provided to guests compliments of Sambazon, VeeV, and Imperial.

By supporting an event like this you’ll walk away knowing you have done something positive and helped an amazing cause. With your help we can make a difference .
We look forward to seeing you all on July 12th .

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Date: Saturday July 12, 2008

Place: Riverside Art Museum

3425 Mission Inn Avenue

Riverside, CA 92501

www.riversideartmuseum.org

We are excited to announce, this year the art show will be held at the
prestigious Riverside Art Museum in the historical downtown area of
Riverside.

On the night of July 12th, 2008, the art show will completely take over the
entire art museum, 3 floors, including a special guest playing music on the
roof (3rd floor). The first two floors will display donated art from noted
artists, available for purchase through silent auction bidding the night of
the show.

It promises to be an event to remember giving the opportunity to raise
increased awareness and funding for Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

Captain Paul Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, will be
the featured speaker, giving an update on what is happening globally with
oceanic conservation.

www.SeaShepherd.org

Just confirmed:

RVCA clothing will be sponsoring an entire room of artwork to be sold at the
show, with a special 2 week preview at the art museum.

www.RVCAclothing.com

Lola will be donating an original piece to be auctioned off the night of the
show.

www.lolastrangeart.com

Shepard Fairey is creating a special piece to be auctioned at the art show.

www.ObeyGiant.com

Jason Mernick is donating an original metal art piece to be auctioned the
night of the show.

www.JasonMernick.com

Matthew and Janice Endsley of Six Gun Custom Drum Co. are donating a custom
made snare to be auctioned the night of the art show.

www.SixGunDrums.com

More updates of confirmed arts and music coming soon…..

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has a reputation for action that precedes us and that reputation seems to have provoked Canadian Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Loyola Hearn into shooting off media releases from the hip without thought or reason.

His exceptionally emotional response is no doubt motivated by the need to posture and pose for Newfoundland fishermen. Hearn, himself a Member of Parliament for Newfoundland is well aware that it has been the incompetence of the Canadian Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans that led to total collapse of the cod fishery and the severe diminishment of practically every commercial fishery in Canada.

He needs to appear the hero to the Newfoundland fishermen and what better way to do this than to pounce upon a non-governmental organization trying to protect our oceans and endangered species like seals, whales and dolphins.

Once again it is our small under-funded organization that advances into the fray determined to oppose the largest slaughter of marine mammals on the planet. Once again the government trots out the propaganda machine to spew nonsense about the motivations of seal defenders, calling us outsiders who pretend to save seals so we can get “rich” off of contributions.

That argument does not fly with us. I was raised in an East coast fishing village. I was raised amongst fishermen. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has not done any direct mail, telephone or door-to-door solicitations to raise money to protect seals. We are a small organization struggling to do what we can with the resources we have available to us to protect marine wildlife species from the greed of the fishing industry, from poachers and from the kind of incompetence that the Canadian government has become renown for in the area of fisheries management.

There are groups raising millions to “protect” seals like Greenpeace and IFAW and others but you never see the likes of them on the ice actually defending seals. In recent years I’ve only seen the Humane Society of the United States out on the ice under the leadership of Rebecca Aldworth who herself hails from Newfoundland.

This is a movement not only established by Canadians but more specifically by Canadians from Eastern Canada including Canada’s most distinguished and legendary writer Farley Mowat whose name graces the bow of the ship we are sending into the ice fields this week.

The European Parliament is debating a bill to ban seal products into Europe, a measure that will continue to elevate Europeans as the guardians of civilized values where slaughter for profit is a barbarism that must be abolished from the modern world of the 21st Century.

What are Sea Shepherd’s intentions in taking our ship into the Gulf of St. Lawrence? Very simply we seek to document the slaughter of seals which in Canada is actually a crime. In fact it is a crime to film, photograph or even witness the killing of a seal under the bizarre “Seal Protection” regulations.

We now have an international crew on board a Dutch registered ship that has every legal right to enter the Canadian Economic Exclusion Zone. We intend to stay outside of the twelve mile territorial limit. We don’t intend to damage any sealing vessels or injure any sealers or human beings. We don’t intend to do anything but exercise our right to witness an atrocity that the Canadian government is intending to cover up and to keep away from the eyes of the civilized world.

Yes we may be arrested, yes we may have our ship seized, yes our crew may be beaten and arrrested by Canadian government thugs or sadistic sealers – but we will not back down to threats from the man who has become the Grand Inquisitor of the harp seals.

No Mr. Hearn we are coming and we will not back down in the face of your threats.

Government of Canada Stands Up For Sealers and the Rule of Law
March 27, 2008

The Honourable Loyola Hearn, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, today issued the following statement:

I am gravely concerned with comments made by Paul Watson, leader of the extremist Sea Shepherd Society that he will disregard the Government of Canada’s clear warning to stay outside of our waters and choose instead to threaten the safety and livelihood of Canadian sealers.

Captain Paul Watson: There is nothing extremists about protecting life. The Canadian government is taking an extremist position by sponsoring and subsidizing the largest and cruelest mass slaughter of any marine mammal species on the planet. We have not disregarded a Canadian warning to stay outside of Canadian waters and we have never threatened the safety of Canadian sealers. The Minister is making some very irresponsible statements here. Canada has no right to restrict entry of a foreign registered ship into the 200 mile economic exclusion zone when said ship is not engaged in economic activity. The Farley Mowat is a Dutch registered yacht crewed by international volunteers, none of who are paid to be on that ship. The ship has the right of passage and that is guaranteed by international maritime law. We suggest that the Minister consult with his attorneys before making further threats.

Mr. Watson’s organization has been known to cause physical harm and damage to property. Their flagship vessel, the Farley Mowat, proudly bears the names of fishing vessels it claims to have sunk.

Captain Paul Watson: Yes we proudly bear the names of poaching vessels that we have sunk or rammed. They were all engaged in illegal activity and we shut them down legally. They were policing actions in accordance with the principles established by the United Nations Charter for Nature.  Maybe Mr. Hearn should explain how it is that we have not been charged let alone convicted of any felony in connection with scuttling and putting out of business illegal whalers and poachers. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has no intention of ramming any sealing vessels or government vessels.  We never have and we never will. Mr. Hearn is engaging in fear-mongering and setting up Sea Shepherd to appear as the aggressor when in fact all we intend to do is document the horror of the mass slaughter of seals.

Sealers in Atlantic Canada, Quebec and in the North should know that our government is standing up for their safety and security and will not accept such indiscriminate disregard of the law and the safety of our citizens.

Captain Paul Watson: To bad the government did not stand up to protect the fisheries from over-fishing and over exploitation from foreign dragger’s instead of appeasing them now with this cheap charade of caring for the “fishermen”.  I challenge any Canadian fisherman to applaud the abysmal record of the Canadian government when it comes to championing the real interests of Canadians and Canadian fishermen specifically. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has not violated any laws except for the bizarre “seal protection regulations” that we consider to be politically engineered to suppress legitimate dissent against an obscenity that I as a Canadian citizen regard as an embarrassment and a scandal.

Our government works hard to ensure the Canadian seal hunt is conducted in a humane, safe and sustainable manner and it adds a tremendous amount of value to those individuals who pursue it as their employment during a time when economic opportunities are limited in many remote, coastal communities. We will not be bullied or blackmailed into forcing people who depend on the sealing industry out of their livelihood based on things that are simply baseless allegations. The Sea Shepherd Society is just another organization in a long list of those trying to bully the Canadian sealing industry.

Captain Paul Watson: The Canadian government has not worked very hard to protect endangered species and habitat. They have constantly attempted to justify the cruelty of the slaughter by simply “saying” it is humane yet they prohibit independent observation unless the observers are approved by the government and usually that means a history of expressing sympathy for the atrocities witnessed on the ice. What is really incredibly is that Loyola Hearn can, with a straight face, accuse vegetarians trying to defend innocent seal pups of being bullies. Oh those poor wimpy little sealers! Are they so frail and harassed that they need Daddy government to come running to defend them? In 2005 it was the sealers who attacked my crew with clubs and assaulted them. We have never raised a hand to them – yet in the warped reasoning of the Minister of Fisheries it is the club wielding thugs bashing in the skulls of seal pups that are cast in the role of victim by the Canadian government. Ah the art of the spin – there seems to be no limit to the absurdities the government will stoop to defend this horror.

In the days ahead we will be monitoring the situation very carefully, and taking every step to ensure the safety of our sealers.

Captain Paul Watson: Do what you will Mr. Hearn – the world is watching and Europe will be taking note of your over-bearing self righteous jingoistic biased and over the top defense of the largest bloody slaughter of any marine mammal species on the planet. BE the big man in Newfoundland and abuse your authority, but to the rest of the world you will appear for what you are – a sadistic goon, a self-serving thug and a disgrace to humanity.

The Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin dropped anchor off of Williamstown near Melbourne at noon on Saturday, March 15, 2008 officially ending the 2007/2008 campaign to protect and defend whales from illegal Japanese whaling activities in the Southern Ocean.“It’s been a long campaign,” said Captain Paul Watson. “Three and a half months and over 20,000 miles covered and most importantly over 500 whales saved from death. We were successful and the crew are feeling damn good at what we have achieved.”The ship was boarded and cleared by Australian Customs and Immigration and officers of the Australian Federal Police. All the crew were free to depart the ship.After the authorities departed, two Japanese television crew boarded the ship to do interviews.There were cheers from people on the Williamstown dock as crew disembarked over the afternoon.The Japanese Institute for Cetacean Research has admitted that they will not get even half their kill quota and they have publicly attributed this failure to direct interference by Sea Shepherd.“We may have been condemned by the bureaucrats and the politicians but the people of Australian are with us,” said Captain Watson. “More importantly while our critics were condemning and denouncing us we were saving the lives of whales and that fact alone is worth all the condemnations the politicians can throw at us.”There will be little time for rest. On March 24th, the Sea Shepherd ship Farley Mowat will depart from Bermuda to head north to intervene against the planned slaughter of 325,000 harp seal pups on the East coast of Canada.“There is no rest on planetary duty,” said Sea Shepherd crewmember Amber Paarman from South Africa who will be leaving the Steve Irwin to join the Farley Mowat this week.Crewmembers Amber Paarman , Shannon Mann, Willie Houtman, Stephen Sikes and Peter Hammarstedt will be departing the Steve Irwin along with Captain Watson to join the Farley Mowat.Captain Paul Watson

It appears that the spirit of the Divine Wind has turned on the Japanese fleet. With only eight days left in the whaling season, the Sea Shepherd tracking device on the Yushin Maru puts the Japanese fleet right smack in the middle of a savage storm off Porpoise Bay on the coast of Antarctica.

“What we could not finish because of lack of fuel is being taken care of by mother nature. There is no way that the whalers are going to kill whales in the seas and winds that the fleet is in at the present time” said Steve Irwin 1st Officer Peter Brown.

The Yushin Maru No. 2 is at 65 degrees South and 130 Degrees East and that area is experiencing a full out raging storm.

“The winds (kaze) of the Gods (Kami) has ended any hope of the whalers getting even half their kill quota.” Said Captain Paul Watson. “I love storms. I love to ride them out and I love the humbling power of the sea, but most of all I love it when storms scatter the ambitions of poachers like this storm is doing now. The whaling season is for all intents and purposes – finished.”

The Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin will be arriving in Melbourne on Saturday, March 15th. Preparations will begin immediately to organize a return to the Southern Oceans in December 2008 to once again pursue and intervene against the continuing illegal operations of the Japanese whaling fleet.

As the Steve Irwin moves northward in the relatively calm waters a few hundred miles south of Tasmania, the crew will drink a toast to the Divine Winds with appreciation for the whales the Kamikaze will save this week.

“I think it’s appropriate,” said Captain Watson. “The Kamikaze came to the rescue of the Samurai to save them from the Mongol hordes under Kublai Khan. To the whales, Sea Shepherd are modern day Samurai. Samurai means to serve and we serve the whales.
Our duty is clear and the average Japanese citizen will understand our resolve even if they disagree with our objectives.”

Captain Paul Watson

Commentary from Captain Paul Watson

Despite all of the drama of the confrontations between the Japanese whalers and Sea Shepherd we must never lose sight of the focus of this campaign.

Our objective is to end illegal whaling in the Southern Ocean Sanctuary.

Drama serves to put issues into the spotlight but should never take the spotlight away from the issues.

The Japanese continually try to distract from the issue with their ridiculous charges of eco-terrorism and condemnation of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

Of course Japan condemns the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. And the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society condemns illegal Japanese whaling. That’s clear – we both condemn each other’s positions.

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) last week condemned the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society for protecting whales. It does not mean much. Last year the IWC condemned Japan for illegal whaling in the waters of Antarctica. The Japanese did not take heed of the IWC condemnation nor will Sea Shepherd.

Talk has been going back and forth about Japan laying charges against Sea Shepherd or Sea Shepherd laying charges against Japan. It’s all talk. Sea Shepherd did not injure anyone nor did we damage any property. We simply harassed and chased an illegal whaling operation and prevented them from taking half their illegal quota. And it is pointless for Sea Shepherd to lay charges against the Japanese whalers because it will simply go nowhere.

Last year when Japan claimed that Sea Shepherd rammed their whaling vessel Keiko Maru and Sea Shepherd claimed that it was the Keiko Maru that rammed the Robert Hunter, a forensic investigation team from the Australian Federal Police spent days on the Robert Hunter gathering evidence. Nothing more was heard about the case.

The fact is that ships not registered in Australia have been in confrontation in waters off the coast of Australia that Australia claims but Japan does not recognize as an Australian claim. The situation involves numerous nationalities. Sea Shepherd did not damage any property or injure any person. Armed Japanese Coast Guard were in Australian waters without permission of the Australian government and in violation of the Antarctic Treaty over an issue that involves Japanese violations of an Australian Federal Court order prohibiting whaling in the Australian Antarctic Economic Exclusion Zone and in violation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and the regulations of the International Whaling Commission. It is a jurisdictional nightmare involving international law, Australian law, Japanese law etc.

Any attempts to bring charges on either side would take up millions of dollars of tax payers money and in the end would resolve absolutely nothing.

Meanwhile there just may be a solution to ending illegal whaling in the Southern Oceans.

Discussions are taking place within the IWC on a deal put forward by the United States that would end Japanese “research” whaling in the Southern Ocean.

The plans were drawn up at a meeting in February by the governments of Argentina and the Netherlands, but given support in-principle only last week in London at a closed door three-day meeting of the International Whaling Commission.

The plans call for the IWC to give Japan a legal commercial hunt in the North Pacific in waters close to Japan.

This would mean a legal kill of 150 Minke  or what we call Piked whales.

In exchange the Japanese would abandon their so called “research” in the waters of the Southern Ocean.

Although the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is opposed to all whaling in principle, Sea Shepherd activities are directed against illegal operations. This means that Sea Shepherd would not send ships to oppose an IWC legally sanctioned whale hunt off of Japan.

It would mean that a thousand whales a year would be spared from a horrific death from Japanese harpoons in the Southern Ocean. It would also mean that the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary will in fact be a Sanctuary and not just a sanctuary in name only.

Britain has indicated it would back this compromise over the whaling near Japan’s shores and not elsewhere, with the British seeing “playing for a draw” the best option with a win not possible.

This compromise would put an end to the annual confrontation in the waters of the Southern Oceans.

I would be relieved to not have to come down to these waters again to battle the Japanese whalers. But we will begin preparation to return and we will be ready to return if Japan refuses to accept this compromise. We must abolish whaling in the Southern Oceans Whale Sanctuary. We cannot retreat from this position.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has just completed its fourth annual campaign to the Southern Ocean. Campaigns in 2002/2003 and again in 2005/2006, 2006/2007, and 2007/2008 have seen Sea Shepherd returning each year stronger and more determined than the year before.

Our goal for next year is to secure a 2nd ship and to keep on the tail of the Japanese fleet from the beginning of the season until the end of the season. This year the Japanese whaling fleet did not even get half their quota. Our objective next year will be 100%.

Can we do it? Yes, given the support, two ships, our helicopter and two dedicated and courageous crews of volunteers we will be able to stop the whale killers before they kill again.

And if the Japanese decide to pull out and accept the compromise to leave the waters of the Southern Oceans in peace, then we will transfer our preparations and set our sights on targeting the continued illegal whaling operations off the coast of Norway.

I have been fighting whalers since 1974 which is all of my adult life. I would dearly love to see whaling abolished before I die and if that means spending the remainder of my days fighting whalers on the high seas than that is what it will be.

 Japanese Fire On Sea Shepherd Crew – Three Injured

Steve Irwin Captain Shot
Cameraman and Crewmember Injured by Flash Grenade

At 1545 ( 0445 G.M.T.)a clash between the crew of the Sea Shepherd vessel Steve Irwin and the Japanese whaling ship Nishiin Maru turned violent when Japanese Coast Guard threw flash grenades at the crew of the Steve Irwin.

Captain Paul Watson was struck by a bullet in the chest which fortunately was stopped by his Kevlar vest. The bullet struck just above the heart and mangled Captain Watson’s anti-poaching badge on his sweater underneath. Doctor David Page pried the bullet from the vest.

Doctor David Page was videotaped prying the bullet from Captain Watson’s Kevlar vest. “You have been hit by a bullet,” he said.

The kevlar vest and badge effectively saved Captain’s Watson life.

Ashley Dunn 35, from Launceston, Tasmania suffered a hip injury when he tried to get out of the way of the exploding grenades.

Ralph Lowe 33,  from Melbourne, Australia received bruises to his back when one of the flash grenades exploded behind him.

The Japanese were retaliating against the Sea Shepherd crew for tossing rotten butter on the decks to discourage whaling activities. The clash came after a weeklong pursuit by the Steve Irwin of the Nisshin Maru, in an effort to stop illegal whaling activities in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

Earlier in the day at 0800 Hours (1900 G.M.T.) the Steve Irwin had ordered the Nisshin Maru to leave French Territorial waters. The Japanese whaler complied and turned around and headed back west into Australian waters.

The confrontation occurred inside the Australian Territorial Zone at the position of  63 Degrees, 41 Minutes South and  133 Degrees 27 Minutes East.

Video and photos of the incident are being transmitted to Sea Shepherd’s head office.

Westward, then Eastward then Westward and then Eastward Again

Whales everywhere and not one to kill.
Whalers run like frightened school girls.
- Sea Shepherd Haiku

No one appears to know what the Japanese whalers are doing – including the Japanese whalers.

Last night after leading the Steve Irwin on a chase 750 miles to the west, the Whaling fleet factory ship Nisshin Maru did a hundred and eighty degree turn and headed back east again.

The Yushin Maru #2 is hundreds of miles to the east with the rest of the whaling fleet.

But without the Nisshin Maru there can be no whaling operations which brings us to the twelfth day since returning to the Whale Sanctuary that whales have not been killed.

Meanwhile the Japanese government has shifted into high gear public relations mode to disseminate mis-information and have called in the Ambassadors of the Netherlands and Australia to call for the condemnation of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

They can lie and say anything they like really, we don’t mind, because the bottom line is that Sea Shepherd is succeeding in preventing the Japanese whalers from killing whales. They have yet to reach the halfway mark on their kill quota and they have only about 10 days left to do so.

A few people have contacted us to say they disapprove of our actions. We are not impressed. We tell them to find us a single whale that disapproves of our actions and then we will reconsider but the fact is that our clients are whales – not people and we intend to represent our clients and to defend them from death and destruction.

We intend in the next 10 days to make it impossible for the whalers to resume their barbaric activities.

We are not worried about any political or legal consequences for our actions. Despite Japanese allegations we have not injured anyone and we don’t intend to injure anyone. My crew and I deliberately place ourselves into harm’s way to protect these whales and when you have committed yourself to placing your life on the line for a cause – non-lethal threats and name calling have absolutely no effect on what we do and how we do it.

Our job down here right now in the Southern Ocean is to stop the illegal killing of whales and we are doing just that. We will not be deterred by Japanese propaganda and threats. We are here to uphold international conservation law against a vicious whale poaching operation.

And there can be no dispute that what the Japanese are doing is poaching. Targeting endangered species like Fin whales in an established international whale sanctuary in violation of a global moratorium on whaling and in contempt of an Australian Federal Court order specifically prohibiting Japanese whaling in the Australian Antarctic Territory is by any definition – poaching.

As I’ve said many times, the poaching of whales by Japan in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is no different than poaching elephants in Africa, tigers in India or sharks in the Galapagos National Park.

The one big difference is that the rangers shoot elephant and tiger poachers and the Ecuadorian police jail shark finners. In the Southern Oceans the Japanese whine about a few stink bombs.

Some of the stories in the Japanese media have been way over the top but many believe what they read in the newspaper or see on television and we can’t control gullibility. But in a strange sort of way these stories help us to be effective.

In the last few days, Japanese media have reported that we fired over 2,000 containers of chemical acid onto the decks of the Nisshin Maru. They claim that two crew and two Coastguardsmen were injured in the attack. They claim we have a missile launcher to fire the containers. They claim that we are firing corrosive acid that is damaging their ship. In the most bizarre claim they have reported that our crew boarded the factory ship and directly squirted acid into the eyes of the whalers and attacked them on deck with broken beer bottles.

All real dramatic stuff but all of it over-exaggerated and grossly inaccurate.

The fact is that my crew delivered two dozen VB beer bottles filled with rotten butter acid which stinks terribly but is less corrosive than orange juice (citric aicd). The crew also delivered two dozen paper packets of Hydroxy propyl methyl cellulose. This is a non-toxic food grade product that is used to coat pills making them easier to swallow. It is very slippery in water. The strategy behind this is to make conditions on deck uncomfortable for processing dead whales. The decks stink and it is difficult to move around. I personally witnessed the impact of every container and not one container landed in close proximity to any person on the Japanese ship. All containers were thrown by hand. There was no missile launcher. No Sea Shepherd crew boarded the Nisshin Maru and there was no hand to hand fighting with crew squirting anything into the eye of any of the Japanese crew. The four armed Japanese Coast Guard officers should have some explaining to do if we had of boarded the ship and they had not apprehended anyone. In all of the video footage distributed by the Institute for Cetacean (marketing & product development) Research there is no video shown of injures. If there were indeed injuries, the video would be there for sure – it is not. It’s all just spin-doctoring in an attempt to make the public feel sympathy for whale killers.

I must admit it is a challenge for the public relation flacks representing the Japanese whaling industry. It is like being hired by serial killers to give them a good image.

But the truth is the truth and lies, exaggerations, rumours and distortions will not be enough to bring legal charges against my crew or myself for simply trying to uphold international law against ruthless whale poachers.

And Sea Shepherd history speaks for itself. We don’t cause injuries to sentient beings. We never have and we don’t intend to start. The compassion of my crew even extends to not allowing the products of animal slaughter and abuse to be consumed onboard our ships. We represent kindness to life and we represent compassion.

So it is indeed a task for the P.R. whores to cast compassionate vegan whale defenders as the bad guys and ruthless whale serial killers as the good guys. That might work in a world where the AXIS powers had prevailed in 1945 but not in the world today where most of the civilized world looks on the killing of whales as murder and most believe that action must be taken to stop the escalating levels of flora and fauna extinctions and that we must exercise a new morality that seeks to eliminate cruelty against other creatures and destruction of the natural world for profit.

But how does this work in our favor. The Dalai Lama is a Sea Shepherd supporter and he once sent us a little icon called Hayagriva. Hayagriva represents the compassionate aspect of Buddha’s  wrath. What this means is that one should never injure anyone but when the opposition cannot see enlightenment, you scare the hell out of them until they do.

So our pirate image works well at doing just that and when the whalers, sealers and shark finners begin to believe their own exaggerations about us it works in our favor. So sometimes the good guys do indeed wear black.

In Africa, black Somali poachers are shot on sight for poaching elephants and the world approves.

In India, Indian poachers are shot for poaching tigers.

Yet when the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society crew toss rotten butter onto the deck of a wealthy high tech Japanese whale poaching operation in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, there is a gasp of horror from those who fear to offend the great economic bully from Asia.

The crew of the Steve Irwin did not injure anyone. The entire confrontation was documented by both ships and there has been no video shown by either side documenting violent actions against the very violent whalers.

With all the reaction in some media, one would think the Japanese whalers are the innocent victims of a horrific act of violence.

Yet these same whalers are violating international conservation law and an Australian Federal Court order by illegally slaughtering endangered whales in an established whale sanctuary.

The Sea Shepherd crew did not shoot any of these poachers like the rangers in Africa do when they encounter elephant killers in the bush. No, we tossed rotten butter and fake banana peels onto their deck to discourage their illegal operations. The material tossed onto the deck of the Nishiin Maru was both organic and non-toxic.

Of course the Japanese whalers are putting their spin on the story describing butter acid as caustic and harmful when it is completely unharmful. Not all acids are harmful. If they were we would not drink orange juice and some just smell bad.

It is a fact that butter becomes Butyric acid when it goes bad – that does not make it toxic – just obnoxiously smelly.

The objective in tossing a foul smelling substance onto the deck of the largest floating slaughterhouse in the world is simple – to discourage the grisly work of mutilating the bodies of some of the largest and gentlest creatures on Earth.

There is no industry on earth as horrifically violent as whaling. Whales die in prolonged unimaginable agony as blunt tipped harpoons smash into their backsides and shred internal organs. They may take up to forty minutes to die as they drown in a mixture of salt water and their own blood. They thrash and roll on the surface of the sea and scream  piteously as they look up to see arrogant men gloating over their suffering.

Yet some people get upset because these same people now have smelly decks and can’t continue their foul sadistic work.

For the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, our clients are the whales and we are defending them by intervening to enforce international conservation law in accordance to the principles established by the United Nations World Charter for Nature.

We have not committed any crime and despite the fabrications of Japanese public relations spin doctors we have not injured any persons. In fact in over thirty years of high seas interventions the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has never caused an injury nor have we been convicted of a felony.

Yet in that time whalers, sealers, shark finners, turtle poachers and illegal fishermen have assaulted us, beaten us, bloodied us, rammed us, shot at us and threatened our lives but that never seems to be a story of interest because according to our critics we are exposing ourselves voluntarily to the violence of the ocean rapers. In fact after being assaulted by sealers who struck my crew with clubs and injured them the Canadian police refused to press charges against our attackers because we “had provoked the violence by opposing the killing of seals.”

We have had a very successful campaign this year in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. We have saved hundreds of whales. We have chased this Japanese killing fleet for thousands of miles and they will not fill their death quota and they are not very happy about that.

The crew of the Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin are satisfied that we behaved responsibly, we did not injure anyone, we did not damage any property but we have saved lives, hundreds of lives of the most social complex, gentle and intelligent creatures in the sea.

We did our planetary duty and we upheld the law and all of us on this gallant ship are both proud and satisfied at what we have accomplished.