The Choice for Sea Shepherd Supporters is Simple
July 26, 2023
(1) Direct action or collaboration with governments.
(2) Controversy or mediocrity
(3) Confrontation or Conferences
(4) Working with governments or working for governments.
(5) Real direct action or a pretense of direct action.
(6) Between transparency and smoke and mirrors censorship and manipulation.
There is a difference between working with governments and working for governments, a big difference.
The Captain Paul Watson Foundation
Sea Shepherd
Sea Shepherd Brazil
Or SSCS or SS Global
There are plenty of organizations that address collaborations with governments, plenty of mediocre organizations, plenty that attend conference, plenty that claim credit for things they have not done.
The Sea Shepherd movement that I created in 1977 was unique and highly effective. We shut down all the pirate whaling operations in the Atlantic in 1979 and 1980, sinking three of them. We invaded Soviet Siberia in 1981 to get evidence of illegal whaling for the IWC. Years of campaigns ended the baby seal slaughter in Canada and ended the market for seal pelts in Europe. We sank four illegal Norwegian ships and increased the insurance premiums of the rest of them, we did our own TV show, Whale Wars and ended illegal Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. And so much more, and our thanks for all of these bold and effective campaigns was that I was ousted, numerous people were fired, the focus and strategies were abandoned and the control has fallen into the hands of people who have lost the plot like a Florida Property developer, a dolphin trainer and some bureaucrats devoid of imagination but now being paid by Sea Shepherd supporters who are using Sea Shepherd donations to sue me, the Captain Paul Watson Foundation and Sea Shepherd France for trademark violations after they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to trademark the name I created and the logos I designed in numerous countries.
This is the choice – between what we were and what these pretenders want us to be.
The ecological crisis is too serious to be mediocre, far too serious for inaction, conferences and rubbing shoulders corrupt with politicians.
The link below is an excellent article about one of the most awesome marine conservationists on the planet – Lamya Essemlali, the President of Sea Shepherd France, a woman who has never abandoned her principles or lost her focus on the real problems nor has she abandoned the strategies that made us what we were and what we should continue to be.