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David Jonas, a New Hampshire resident, described the tense confrontation to The Canadian Press early Sunday after he was released from custody in Sydney, Nova Scotia.
He said an RCMP tactical squad boarded the ship at 11 a.m. ADT Saturday while the Farley Mowat’s crew members were observing the annual seal hunt in the Cabot Strait - the body of water between Cape Breton and Newfoundland.
Google Earth link to the locations involved
“We were placed under arrest, forced to lie down on the deck,” said Jonas, a member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. “We were then escorted to the stern of the ship and kept under armed guard.”
Jonas said some of his shipmates were handcuffed once aboard the coast guard icebreaker Des Groseilliers, which brought them to port in Sydney late Saturday night.
Jonas said the Mowat’s 17 crew members were told they would be charged with violating Canada’s sealing laws.
However, once on shore, they were told the charges would be dropped against all but the captain and chief officer, who both made a brief appearance early Sunday in a Sydney courtroom.
Jonas said Canada has no legal grounds to detain them.
“Canada did not have a right to board us and bring us to Sydney. We were in international waters. We’re a Dutch-registered vessel and had the right of free passage.”
Federal Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn has insisted the Farley Mowat was seized legally in Canada’s “internal waters.”
The Farley Mowat’s crew maintains their vessel never entered Canada’s 12-nautical-mile territorial limit, but Hearn said the Fisheries Act gave him the authority to take action beyond that line.
In Sydney, several members of the Mowat’s crew were detained Sunday after they refused to comply with immigration and customs checks, Jonas said. They refused the sign the immegration forms.
“Half of us have denied that opportunity, and will be interned,” he said. “It’s clearly an unusual circumstance for all involved.”
Until they’re released, the crew is going on a hunger strike, Jonas added.
The Farley Mowat will be detained in Sydney for as long at it takes Transport Canada officials to conduct a full inspection, Hearn said. No doubt they will drag their feet about it and delay it as long as possible.
Sea shepherd had the last laugh…
It took the U.S.-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society a little while to arrange the $10,000 bail for the Two officers of an anti-sealing vessel arrested over the weekend.
You see, they decided to pay the ransom in Dubloonies. (2 Dollar coins)
“We have bail. We just came from the bank … We intend to give them $5,000 in coins, toonies,” said crew member Shannon Mann. “They called us pirates all the time so we thought it would be funny.”
Yes it is.. lol
I wonder if the RCMP will delete the video and images stored on the computer/laptops onboard ?
saltnpepper101 on 14 Apr 2008 at 4:50 am #
[..YouTube..] Paul Watson is my hero!!!
The sealers are killing BABY seals by smashing in their heads!
Some seals are skinned alive!
Why is it illegal to film the sick hunt?
The pelts are only getting 33 dollars each.
Chinese buy these pelts for the penises!
A rich woman in USA said she would pay all the sealers NOT to hunt. This offer was denied so the slaughter has NOTHING to do with wages.
Canada killed 4 sealers April 2008
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is right!
End the slaughter of babies
saltnpepper101 on 14 Apr 2008 at 4:58 am #
[..YouTube..] I will continue to support Paul Watson with my time and money.
Listen to Paul Watson’s vids and read his books. He is right!
Shame Canada, shame
pots5150 on 14 Apr 2008 at 5:52 am #
[..YouTube..] TOTALLY!!!! What the hell is Canada thinking endorsing this absurd practice? How embarrassing for them? What a dated barbaric industry.
Ghomtu on 14 Apr 2008 at 6:51 am #
[..YouTube..] Good pictures of mob violaters in the harbour and police stand around doing nothing. Is that the way of law you like there? Good to know, so this is not the place to go on holliday. And believe me, tourism is the only thing to make money for you after ending all this. What a pitty for you poor propaganda victims. I already see the news… “Seal hunters get instinct!”
Ghomtu on 14 Apr 2008 at 7:13 am #
[..YouTube..] There so many things who are wrong in that what your saying Mr JW, that it is painfull to hear.
One example you are telling that you use everything of the seals! So why there so many dead and unused (just skinned) sealbodys on the ice? There would be still so much to say about it, but I’m sure you wouldnt evan consider it to be the trueth. Real “weired” people over there I have to suppose.
10XBAD on 14 Apr 2008 at 1:56 pm #
[..YouTube..] He made one good point, “there is no way to make killing animals pretty”, what really should be done is take away there unemployment benefits for the summer so they will have to get an EDUCATION and real jobs.
Niki2679 on 14 Apr 2008 at 4:43 pm #
[..YouTube..] Sealing is wrong. I read in the Toronto star that Sealers are able to kill any seal as long as their pelt isn’t white. But their pelt color changes between the age of 12-24 days. What kind of life do these innocent creatures? For the men & women who depend on sealing season to put food on their tables. I think the government should help to educate & train these people so they have other options. Paul Watson & Sea Shepherd Conservation Society shine light were most people just look away.
pots5150 on 14 Apr 2008 at 5:35 pm #
[..YouTube..] What you’re missing here is that the rest of the world has moved on. This dated, senseless practice must stop.
klextro on 14 Apr 2008 at 5:47 pm #
[..YouTube..] Sarcasm you moron, I’ve plunked live lobsters into boiling waters more times than I can count. Half my family are lobster fisherman. I’m saying why the out cry over seals, and not anything else, cows, pigs…..lobsters.
Kuisel88 on 14 Apr 2008 at 5:53 pm #
[..YouTube..] I’m talking bout the guy before you. Never read your previous comment til just after posting.
TillyFlop on 14 Apr 2008 at 6:01 pm #
[..YouTube..] I’m behind you Sea Shepherd !!!! Disgusting treatment ….
Christine xxx
klextro on 14 Apr 2008 at 6:10 pm #
[..YouTube..] Good arguement…why the public outcry over seals and not anything else. Read past the part where I called him a moron.
pots5150 on 14 Apr 2008 at 7:59 pm #
[..YouTube..] Mate! The wrold is no longer demanding Seal fibre! What you’re defending is buried in the past. IT MUST BE STOPPED!
animalliberation0961 on 14 Apr 2008 at 9:52 pm #
[..YouTube..] GOD BLESS THE SEA SHEPHERD AND HER CREW!
It appears that Canada is becoming as martially governed as the U.S.
Until they stop killing seals for fur, PLEASE BOYCOTT ALL PRODUCTS COMING FROM CANADA.
animalliberation0961 on 14 Apr 2008 at 9:56 pm #
[..YouTube..] Still no reason to murder them, or cows or birds or pigs or sheep or anyone else for that matter.
mattmatt115 on 14 Apr 2008 at 10:24 pm #
[..YouTube..] What? I agree with most of what I understand of your post.
All I can really say is that the coast gaurd has made me EXTREMELY PROUD to be a Canadian!
To actually show force and prove to Canada that they will protect Canadian lives from any threat. The conservative government said it would do this, and it is proving its word like it has on so many other issues.
Let this be a warning to those who think they can freely use the Canadian Internal Waterway in the arctic as some kind of shortcut.
Kuisel88 on 14 Apr 2008 at 10:29 pm #
[..YouTube..] Both Mowat and Watson said the seizure and arrests were illegal since the Farley Mowat is a Dutch-registered vessel and it was outside of Canada’s 12-mile territorial limit.
But two Maritime law experts said Monday that Canada was within its right to arrest the ship and its crew if they were indeed violating seal hunt regulations.
Kuisel88 on 14 Apr 2008 at 10:30 pm #
[..YouTube..] “Canada has jurisdiction over fish and marine mammals out to 200 nautical miles,” said Ted McDorman, a law professor at the University of Victoria. “So for purposes of marine mammal management, the waters out to 200 nautical miles are Canadian waters.”
William Tetley, a professor of maritime law at McGill University in Montreal, said international ships have a right off passage in many Canadian waters but they don’t have the right to violate Canadian laws.
Kuisel88 on 14 Apr 2008 at 10:30 pm #
[..YouTube..] “The Farley Mowat had a right of passage through the Cabot Strait and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, but it had to be innocent passage,” Tetley said.
“If they’re going to do something that is illegal, that’s not innocent, and if they have committed a crime and are subject to arrest, they’re not innocent. So they were properly arrested.”
Kuisel88 on 14 Apr 2008 at 10:43 pm #
[..YouTube..] WWT. Whoa, whoa, Tabranak. I don’t support Greenpeace, but they are not a terrorist organization, they dissavow the violent acts committed by Sea Shepherd and If I recall hearing somewhere Greenpeace stays clear of the seal hunt for a fair time now.
But the thirst for Balck Gold, and the purest of all, Fresh Water has us linked to the USofA.
qwerty3008 on 14 Apr 2008 at 11:02 pm #
[..YouTube..] Some people might call what your government is doing Iraq a disgrace and Barbaric. Oh and PS stop killing the rabbits in OZ as well it’s a friggen disgrace.
diane18944 on 14 Apr 2008 at 11:38 pm #
[..YouTube..] It is not a matter of eating it is killing only for the fashion industry…you don’t make any money…we don’t…but the fashion industry does. They risk your people’s lives out there just for the fur….they don’t care if men had gotten killed just get the fur then we make money…it is about money…you had people killed it is a dangerous job …not to mention the babies being killed. A nation is judged on how we treat animals.
diane18944 on 14 Apr 2008 at 11:41 pm #
[..YouTube..] Are people’s lives worth killing baby seals…no…those poor men died out there…I fear more will get hurt. the ice is not sturdy now…it is more dangerous now out there lives are worth more than fur and the fashion industry…
rodneykingman on 15 Apr 2008 at 12:44 am #
[..YouTube..] Hang the fucking Canadians involved. Hunt them to the ends of the earth. Pig-fucking scums.
pots5150 on 15 Apr 2008 at 1:15 am #
[..YouTube..] So let me get this straight, you’re comparing the clubbing of Seals in their natural habitat for profit, to the control of an introduced pest to Australia?
saltnpepper101 on 15 Apr 2008 at 3:15 am #
[..YouTube..] I understand your feelings but all I care about are the animals that suffer due to the ignorance and arrogance of the Canadian Government. Why support an industry that destroys Canadian tourism and is so 18th century.
Its the same reason that in British Columbia they continue to clear cut OLD GROWTH FORESTS. How unbelieveable in this day and age. GROW UP CANADA!!!!!
Ghomtu on 15 Apr 2008 at 5:22 am #
[..YouTube..] Poor people have to take all what they “hunt”! Tell me why they are just taking the fur and leave the rest on the ice?
Hunting… doesent discribe the illegal baby killing at all. Its like going to a nusery station! Oh what good hunter you are! Be so proud of it!
qwerty3008 on 15 Apr 2008 at 7:57 am #
[..YouTube..] Yes I am actually, Maybe I don’t consider them pests. You Australians are nothing but a bunch of savages.
DianeDi on 15 Apr 2008 at 8:04 am #
[..YouTube..] You mean to tell me the media is lying? They report that seal hunting makes up 2% of their wages. The fishing industry is 98% of their income. If they are the poorest regions of Canada, then whey don’t they GTFO. Come to Quebec or Ontario where they’re looking for people. Mind you, why would we want murderers in these other fine Provinces.
jamie1813 on 15 Apr 2008 at 4:20 pm #
[..YouTube..] know what you are talking about before you shoot your mouth off! oh what good dumbass you are! be proud of it!
klextro on 15 Apr 2008 at 7:32 pm #
[..YouTube..] Your outraged as a taxpayer over a 2% subsidy?This is corruption? I’d love to hear your thoughts on the sponsorship program.
klextro on 15 Apr 2008 at 7:38 pm #
[..YouTube..] Right On!
RJAY2000 on 15 Apr 2008 at 10:30 pm #
[..YouTube..] Wow it was rather refreshing to see someone from the maritimes actually talking sense for a change. (woman at 0:43)
redsoxzombie on 15 Apr 2008 at 11:16 pm #
[..YouTube..] WOOOO SEA SHEPHERD.
allan o on 15 Apr 2008 at 11:21 pm #
to the animal rights groups this is a game and they profit, to the hunters,this is a living and they have no choice but to do it. thank god for our RCMP who stopped those terrorists!
Ghomtu on 16 Apr 2008 at 4:07 am #
[..YouTube..] O.K. So you are making a difference between illegal killing white coats and legal killing grey coats? So tell me if somebody kills a six month old human baby and another one kills a 5 year old human child, bot are killing children isn’t it? Never so or so seals are an endangered species. They not only have to deal with humans directly they also have to deal with humans indirectly their enviorement is breaking in pieces, food is getting harder to catch, water is polutet… please open your mind !
DianeDi on 16 Apr 2008 at 8:13 am #
[..YouTube..] Thank you for your comment ghomtu. I won’t even bother to response to these closed minded individuals who support this practise of seal slaughter in the name of dollars and cents. I am vegan so i believe everything has a value only when it’s alive. Thanks for speaking up for those who cannot. It’s a sad world we live in - somethings just gotta give.
itsnick00 on 16 Apr 2008 at 9:37 am #
[..YouTube..] GO SEA SHEPHERD! You guys are heros.
270WSMT3 on 16 Apr 2008 at 12:35 pm #
[..YouTube..] Being vegan is like white, it does not make right.
I have never killed seal, but as Metis I do hunt moose, deer, and elk. Why? Most cannot afford to be buying all of the expensive stuff which is consumed. Oil caused abhorrent lifestyles and then it fell through, though I have never worked in petroleum industry. I hunt to feed family, extended family even. All things are valuble, no matter their condition. There is more value than simply money in death. Spiritual…
Kyrie, eleison…
Ghomtu on 16 Apr 2008 at 1:17 pm #
[..YouTube..] We Humas are the ones who disturb the balance, have you ever seen the light of big cities from space, when it is dark on the surface of earth?
It looks like a culture of cancer in a petriglass. If mankind want to survive, we have to act now! We have to work together and think about what is necessary and what not. that is a question of survival not of politicts an narzisem. I also dont have a universal solution for that, but slaugtering seals and whales isn’t helpfull at all!
Ghomtu on 16 Apr 2008 at 1:23 pm #
[..YouTube..] So maybe we should start to send Childsoldiers into wars? Its an endengered species. What are you going to hunt when everbody starts to do so and the animals you “need” are getting extinctand people are starving?
I tell you what you are going to have on the table then… its human meat, because this will be still available.
fishmarc on 16 Apr 2008 at 1:52 pm #
[..YouTube..] Loyola Hearn has to be the most ignorant ass on the planet. He lies stack up one after the other. First the CCC ship didn’t collide with the Farley Mowat, then it just grazed it, then the Farley Mowat HIT THEM. This man will lie until the end of time. The sealers are NOT following their own rules for a humane hunt, the government has tried to deny media access but, the truth is in the videos. He’s “sealed” the fate of the sealers with the EU now.
Ghomtu on 16 Apr 2008 at 2:05 pm #
[..YouTube..] So, didn’t you say it its wrong to judge all for the crime of one?!
Ghomtu on 16 Apr 2008 at 2:16 pm #
[..YouTube..] “Served honourably” sounds quite difficulty for me to do so, everybody knows that all wars are fought for money, some few makes it and all the other “krepieren” (ugly kind of dieing) for it. All soldiers are killing because they “had to do so” we heard that a lot here in Germany after WWII. So whats the honour of doing so? If I have to defend myself in direct action o.k., but tell me what have all the foreign armys around the world to do in these foreign countries? Keeping up freedom?
270WSMT3 on 17 Apr 2008 at 12:04 am #
[..YouTube..] I didn’t judge all. I judged one who made a judgement and thus I made a judgement in turn on them and warned them that on the grounds that they can look down upon people and try to act high and mighty saying in a sort of childish attitude, “I Am this, and you are that making me better than you.” That they themselves would recieve a label from me for it.
I respect all people, but when they show disrespect, I give them further disrespect. When they show respect, they recieve greater from me.
Ghomtu on 17 Apr 2008 at 12:27 am #
[..YouTube..] Akzeptiert o.k. See we all dont want to battle just for fun, but Sea Shepherd tries to fight for the future of the Oceans. Trying to keep up the nature as long as the number of human beings allows it to do so. If the oceans are dieing we also will die. We are wasting this nature like something useles we can buy in the supermarked, well we wont get a second world to buy! I appreciate that you are writing this and have your thoughts for it. Thanks for that!
Ghomtu on 17 Apr 2008 at 12:54 am #
[..YouTube..] Over Bread and clear unpoluted water, be glad still having enough of it in Canada. It is you future help to keep it up. You cant eat money, and politicians who let their muscle play used to sit in warm and try places when soldiers are killing and get killed. Take the chance and work for your own future, learn more about your surounding, you will be surprised for all the things you think their are known to you already. They arent, I went se same way already. Go on the sscs website or others. BRG
Ghomtu on 17 Apr 2008 at 1:51 pm #
[..YouTube..] So as far as I can see at the first look this org. wants to have the skys full of waterbirds to hunt them quite easily. Well thats not realy that what I understand as a respectfull treatment with nature. One or two things still would be of interrest for me… Why is your future irrelevent? You are 18 years old? As far as I consider that this is young. And whats up with the meaning of witch name? I do not understand the sence. Would you please explain that.
Ghomtu on 18 Apr 2008 at 12:19 am #
[..YouTube..] You have wrote here several points where I agree with you! If you want to, we can take that discussion in PM’s out, ’cause this could get longer and more personel, as far as I can see now. I think we have a real chance to figure out a lot of things. Regards Ghomtu
ingorules on 18 Apr 2008 at 9:59 am #
[..YouTube..] glad to see they finally took action against these ppl. nobody seems to realise that these ppl put sealers lives in danger by not following the laws that were set for them. there were times when they went inside of their half mile limit of the sealers. and it’s funny how they are always in “international waters” whenever anything happens. glad dfo and the gov’t but a stop to it before somebody was seriously injured (either sealers or protesters)
Ersabette on 18 Apr 2008 at 4:46 pm #
[..YouTube..] Don’t believe everything that you read. I bet you believe there are aliens among us because a tabloid said so!
Ersabette on 18 Apr 2008 at 5:36 pm #
[..YouTube..] Do you not realize how many courses is needed before you can fish? It’s not just a job that anyone can do, there are requirements. Any job that pays money is a real job. How dare you dismiss those who do something that you do not agree with and declare what they do isn’t real! These men and women are the hardest working people I have ever met. I would love to see you out in high seas crab fishing and then say it isn’t real.
hunter1755video on 19 Apr 2008 at 2:53 pm #
[..YouTube..] OUAÉÉ .. CRISSÉ LA TUTE EN PRISON STÉ asti lA
SeaShepherd2 on 19 Apr 2008 at 6:15 pm #
[..YouTube..] To be honest there not breaking the law well they are but there doing it to save the seals amagine yourself having people walk into your home and wack you on the head with a METAL bat then skin you just for your FUR!!
livecoral on 20 Apr 2008 at 5:40 am #
[..YouTube..] The newfies are really scraping the bottom of the barrel to “protect their way of life: go out in the summer and club and skin 300,000 seals”:
Paying people to write here with spitful personal attacks. Ripping through a confiscated unarmed (besides cameras and oil paintings), foreign yacht;
Can’t you hear the world bans, the whole EU pissed off?
Please, Canada, stop killing seals, sack Lolipop Hysterihean, and give the …. boat back!
Of all greenie groups, budget v results: Sea Shepherd!!
TeamYankee2 on 20 Apr 2008 at 5:50 am #
[..YouTube..] Get a grip on reality here…
the only people killed and hurt were by the Canadian Coast guard jokers!
Look at the video you can see the coast guard cutter going into the ice between the Farley Mowat and the sealers on the ice.. now who was putting them at risk?
The Canadian incompetence killed four sealers so far.. who’s next ?
shaneejball on 20 Apr 2008 at 1:09 pm #
[..YouTube..] Thats the problem. You can do all the protesting you want, but that doesn’t give you the right to break the law.
Ghomtu on 20 Apr 2008 at 1:38 pm #
[..YouTube..] This is a message to an Pro Sealing activist who was here known under the Name “270WSMT3″!
We wrote to each other and I still wanted to write to you a bit more, why Im absolutly against killing seals and whales.
Now it seems that you just have closed your account!
I had the hope to write to a person that is responsible for its “talking” and not to a Ghost that is just vanishing if someone goes into detail with you.
Thats a pretty bad behavior my dear! Im a kind of pissed off to say polite!
TeamYankee2 on 20 Apr 2008 at 3:36 pm #
[..YouTube..] If you want to chat.. use a chat forum.. not the “comments” section… yeah he’s done a runner..
Ghomtu on 20 Apr 2008 at 3:49 pm #
[..YouTube..] This wasnt a chat at all, cause there was a lot of time between the messages. I found him again he didnt run. I just was wondering were the comments where and supposed he closed up. Couldnt find him also by search. Have you deleted the comments?! Fine thx for that :@
SeaShepherd2 on 21 Apr 2008 at 12:59 am #
[..YouTube..] I could not say it better my self i cant understand how some people can be so stuck up and not even care for the whales and seals …. besides i hate the us there i said it woo hoo yay
ingorules on 21 Apr 2008 at 6:58 pm #
[..YouTube..] first off, the sealers were still walking away from the boat so obviously they weren’t too concerned about it. 2nd, the farley mowat was headed toward the sealers when the coast gaurd cut them off, and 3rd the coast gaurd boat was in reverse at the end of the video, they barely even went into the ice.
scoot1984 on 21 Apr 2008 at 11:33 pm #
[..YouTube..] For the most part sealers do not use unemployment benefits in the summer. They are fishermen. They fish cod, crab, scallops, and other marine species. As “Ersabette” stated, operating a boat in the north atlantic and fishing is anything but an uneducated profession. I certainly understand how the seal hunt looks. It’s not at all enjoyable to watch, but nor is the killing of any animal.Shooting a deer in it’s vital organs, shooting a duck with a shotgun,slaugtering a pig, etc,is no more pleasant.
ravemachin on 22 Apr 2008 at 3:15 am #
[..YouTube..] sea shepard and all arent that rich…so why not sink their ships..after 2-3 go down..without money what will they do?..get a rowboat?
for the stupid comments Paul Wtason said about the lives of seals being more important than human…comes next winter i’m buying seal winter boots…fuck you all
Ghomtu on 22 Apr 2008 at 6:09 am #
[..YouTube..] To bad TY2, you know Im a SSCS supporter, but you are going to delete my comments whitch you dont like. That is censorship!
Please be so friendly and delete now all my coments here! Ghomtu
10XBAD on 22 Apr 2008 at 5:49 pm #
[..YouTube..] You have some good points. Cheers.
askalice50 on 22 Apr 2008 at 9:35 pm #
[..YouTube..] We’re sick and tired of waving at you Hearn. We wave our placards all over this country and we are treated like scum by your little province. Sea Shepherd can really rattle you. They have my support and the support of countless many. You will lose this war on ecology, and you will lose it before you can damage our international reputation any further.
Northgrant on 24 Apr 2008 at 12:49 am #
[..YouTube..] I am going to buy anything made from seal skins. This juvenile behaviour by what is obviously a bunch of college campus fucks is unbelievable. We should have had a frigate broadside the SS into submission.
EDB0223 on 24 Apr 2008 at 6:54 am #
[..YouTube..] This was way over due! Can you believe these pussies are complaining.
EDB0223 on 24 Apr 2008 at 6:58 am #
[..YouTube..] At :44 did you see that skank? That was Miss moosehead beer 1972.
Ghomtu on 26 Apr 2008 at 12:31 am #
[..YouTube..] Second time TEAM YANKEE 2.
Please be so kind and remove my comments.
You are censoring this tread here by removing the comments you dislike.
Be so fair and not to do so or remove my comments, because I dont want to be a part of your censorship!
Best Regards
Ghomtu
Ghomtu on 26 Apr 2008 at 12:32 am #
[..YouTube..] All of my comments!
ndvfdff33 on 29 Apr 2008 at 1:50 pm #
[..YouTube..] “Mind you, why would we want murderers in these other fine Provinces.”
Yea Quebec and Ontario are perfect provinces. Get your head out of your ass lady.
ndvfdff33 on 29 Apr 2008 at 2:16 pm #
[..YouTube..] Guess you better never go to France then. That island, which the “mob” was on, is an island that belongs to France. Has nothing to do with Canada. Sorry.
Ghomtu on 30 Apr 2008 at 3:47 am #
[..YouTube..] Thats right and I knew about that, never the less it is police and they violated the law by doing nothing.
Ghomtu on 30 Apr 2008 at 3:53 am #
[..YouTube..] And of course the Police have to live with people who are involved in all this. May be some violators are ralatives to them. People tend to mix up by living so close together and speaking the same language. But does it get right for that reason?
Ghomtu on 30 Apr 2008 at 8:47 am #
[..YouTube..] What lady you mean?
Ghomtu on 30 Apr 2008 at 12:04 pm #
[..YouTube..] Why do you try to insult her? Does she have offended you in some way? May YOU want to prove us that Aliens are among us!?
deadfishfloating on 30 Apr 2008 at 1:30 pm #
[..YouTube..] The world has seen the images. The world knows of the epic cruelty and waste. The world will not forget.
Sea shepherd is the future, and the pathetic radical extremist minority sealers can only be looked upon by the rest of humanity as virtual 1st world savages, killing for the sake of killing in modern times.
The world has moved on Canada.
Time to catch up!
10XBAD on 30 Apr 2008 at 3:29 pm #
[..YouTube..] You summed it up quite well.
ndvfdff33 on 30 Apr 2008 at 3:31 pm #
[..YouTube..] Well there was what, 50 or 100 angry people with axes and god knows what and like 4 or 5 cops. Do you really blame then for not stepping in? That’s just asking to get screwed up.
ndvfdff33 on 30 Apr 2008 at 3:40 pm #
[..YouTube..] It’s not so you don’t have to worry about it.
ndvfdff33 on 30 Apr 2008 at 3:53 pm #
[..YouTube..] Maybe the Coast Guard wouldn’t have had to charge into the ice with sealers on it if the Farley Mowat wasn’t heading towards those same sealers in the first place. Why was the Mowat heading toward them, to film I suppose you’ll say. BULLSHIT.
The Coast Guard did nothing wrong by cutting off the Farley Mowat in that case. They were doing their job.
By the way, DFO and Coast Guard didn’t board the Farley Mowat. The RCMP Marine Tatical Team did.
Ghomtu on 30 Apr 2008 at 5:43 pm #
[..YouTube..] De-escalation! But has anyone of these “angry people” have to fear a further investigation by the law? Isnt it so that everything went on like nothing happened. Does evan one of these “angry people” get prosecuted for their deeds? And what has happened to the respect of the law? Why dont they have it anymore?
Ghomtu on 30 Apr 2008 at 5:47 pm #
[..YouTube..] So if this do not have any consequences, we dont need all these lawers, judges, policemen, etc. anymore. Lets do it like in the wild west, would be eassier for all, or not?
ndvfdff33 on 30 Apr 2008 at 9:56 pm #
[..YouTube..] How do you know nothing came of this afterwards though?? Maybe nothing happened during the event because the cops didn’t want to loose a limb to an axe. I don’t know many people who would intervene with that.
Maybe these folks were dealt with after the incident. We don’t know the whole story.
wildewillie89 on 30 Apr 2008 at 11:38 pm #
[..YouTube..] yes they boarded it illegaly in international waters
wildewillie89 on 30 Apr 2008 at 11:41 pm #
[..YouTube..] pretty fucking weak cops then, the cops just told ss to go away, it was clear who was in charge and it wasnt the police, once again ss are the victims, i cant see how ppl call them terrorists wen there always the victims
Ghomtu on 01 May 2008 at 3:30 am #
[..YouTube..] I realy dont know, i suppose that it will be that way, because it is more convenient for all to do so. “Just forget the whole thing, its o.k!” No one like to talk frankly about its mistakes and anger, but it need to be done. Otherwise the mistakes get redone, and noone can learn out of it.
PaulWatsonisgreat on 01 May 2008 at 5:00 am #
[..YouTube..] Seal killers use unemployment benifits in the winter after this slaughter.
The RCMP are never “related” to the locals. They are always sent in so that that is not a issue.
Shame on Canada
bashing in the head of a baby seal with a spiked bat and then skinning it in the presence of its mother. Give me a break. These baby seals can NOT swim. Hardly game and how embarrassing for Canada.
I will continue to support Paul Watson with money.
ndvfdff33 on 01 May 2008 at 3:51 pm #
[..YouTube..] You cannot blame the police who boarded the vessel. They were doing their job and doing as they were directed to from higher up.
“yes they boarded it illegaly in international waters”
Where did this come from though. I never once mentioned the boarding other than correcting the Original Poster that the RCMP boarded the Mowat not the DFO or Coast Guard.
ndvfdff33 on 01 May 2008 at 4:04 pm #
[..YouTube..] I’d love to see you out numbered by armed people and watch what you do. Don’t sit there and criticize these people when you most likely would have done the exact same thing. The SS is probably lucky the Police were there because god knows what could have happened otherwise.
“wen there always the victims”
I love this though. Always the victims. AHAHA What a crock.
ndvfdff33 on 01 May 2008 at 4:05 pm #
[..YouTube..] “The RCMP are never “related” to the locals. They are always sent in so that that is not a issue. ”
What is this in regards to?? The only thing the RCMP have been involved in this year is the Boarding of the Farley Mowat.
wildewillie89 on 01 May 2008 at 6:08 pm #
[..YouTube..] well actually i support ss so i obviously wouldve attempted to do something that was actually going to help stop the situation, wen u train to become a policemen u learn to deal with these situations, those cops just sat there and watched, didnt even go up to the mob
ndvfdff33 on 01 May 2008 at 10:42 pm #
[..YouTube..] I understand you support SS. But what if you were there and you weren’t in support of one side more than the other. You are confronted with a couple hundred people, some of whom are armed. You don’t know just what lengths they are willing to go to get their point across and you mean to tell me your going to go up to these axe wielding folks and say go home. That is a good way to get hurt, especially when they are chopping at lines. Why not wait until the incident has calmed down and deal with it
ndvfdff33 on 01 May 2008 at 10:45 pm #
[..YouTube..] That way, you have less of a chance to get seriously injured if one of these people decides he wants to turn on you and chop your arm off or something. They were going to do what they did regardless of the fact the police were there.
P.S. The police were by the Mob. They were the guys with Gendarmerie on their coats. They are French Military Police Officers. But like I said they were probably more concerned about not getting fucked up by these guys with axes.
wildewillie89 on 02 May 2008 at 3:12 am #
[..YouTube..] sea shepherd said there were only 30-40 of them, so are you sayin if they were choppin up the sea shepherd crew, u would just wait for them to calm down, the justice system aims to prevent incidents not let them happen and then deal with the offenders after theyve calmed down, maybe aussie police are a bit tougher than the police over their, did those police have guns?
wildewillie89 on 02 May 2008 at 3:14 am #
[..YouTube..] police are used not only to enforce law but to protect people, in aus the police wouldve delt with the situation pretty quick, however obviously the fisherman are running the town in that particular town, if thats the case wats the point of havin police
ndvfdff33 on 02 May 2008 at 5:31 pm #
[..YouTube..] No I don’t mean if they were chopping people up I would allow it to happen if I was a police officer there. Rope and people are two different things. I’m just saying Rope can be replaced so just let it be for the moment and deal with the people afterwards when the shit is less hostile.
I don’t know how the French Police are so I cannot comment on how tough they are.
ndvfdff33 on 02 May 2008 at 5:49 pm #
[..YouTube..] You want to know what kills me about this incident. First the whole being illegally boarded in international waters. Are these not the same people who illegally boarded a Japanese Whaling vessel to spread propaganda.
Second,the run in with the CG. Isn’t Sea Shepherd the same gang who rams Whaling Vessels in international waters? So its ok for them to do these things to others but when it happens to them its a major atrocity. They are the last people who should criticize others on those issues.
wildewillie89 on 02 May 2008 at 5:56 pm #
[..YouTube..] yes i also agree with the boarding incident, jpn had the right to detain them, however they stuffed up and started making demands for their release, thats where jpn they lost the public opinion battle, plus they refused to contact ss and the oceanic viking, i think the ramming issue is that ss have been accused of ramming ships they havnt rammed, theyve only rammed something like 5 ships, plus they just want to show the public that the canadian cg is ramming them illegaly
ndvfdff33 on 02 May 2008 at 6:28 pm #
[..YouTube..] The Ramming’s SS conducted werent illegal? They were all done completely legal, if there is such a thing. Come on, I was born at night but it wasnt last night. I just dont see how they can sit there and verbally bash people on topics they themselves are guilty of as well. It would be like me throwing rocks at my neighbors car and then having a fit when he does it to mine. It’s not on and really makes them look like a bunch of whiny children who got their toy taken away. Get over it people.
Banshee124 on 04 May 2008 at 9:58 am #
[..YouTube..] The reaction of the French police was exactly the reaction of RCMP in the past when lawful observers were physically assaulted by sealkillers, their van rammed off the road into a ditch and threatened with murder and rape & were barricaded into a motel by an angry mob. The local police and RCMP did absolutely nothing but stand and and chat with the rednecks committing the offences & didn’t lift a finger to get the observers out of the motel until the embassies of the US and Europe got involved.
CDLver on 04 May 2008 at 11:11 am #
[..YouTube..] The Sea Shepard will always sail!
nordrott on 06 May 2008 at 8:20 pm #
[..YouTube..] The navigating officer there, the hippie, it’s a very nice feeling to see him handcuffed.
Hopefully he will never command a ship anymore. Officers ramming other ships, putting other sailors in danger does not belong on the sea.
That pirate-vessel should have been sunk in deep waters. With Tom Watson on the bridge.
And don’t get me wrong, I support your cause, but not the actions these guys do.
ndvfdff33 on 07 May 2008 at 12:34 am #
[..YouTube..] What kills me about this is, Paul Watson is completely against the Seal Hunt in the Atlantic. But he says he is not against Native People hunting them, like Greenland’s Native people. Umm Paul that kind of makes you a hypocrite for being completely against one hunt but saying another is ok because it’s their way of life. What a jackass.
hstormchaser on 10 May 2008 at 6:32 pm #
[..YouTube..] loosers stop killing animals
vbgknekt on 17 May 2008 at 9:13 am #
[..YouTube..] it also makes him a rasist becaouse he is against ouer whale and sealhunt and we are natives too. norway.
DFWRusty on 22 May 2008 at 11:26 am #
[..YouTube..] There is a difference between hunting for food and hunting for money. He is against the mass hunts that are put on primarily for the fur. He is not against the natives, because they rely on the seal a source of food and have done so for hundreds of years.
ndvfdff33 on 22 May 2008 at 4:31 pm #
[..YouTube..] The natives don’t make any money off the hunt either?? Gee I wonder who made all those seal fur clothing items in Greenland when I was there. Must of came from Canada right?
vbgknekt on 27 May 2008 at 9:25 am #
[..YouTube..] he is against ouer hunt, but we are natives. and you cant get all the food you need without any money.
ndvfdff33 on 27 May 2008 at 1:07 pm #
[..YouTube..] I know that. I don’t have anything against the Native Sealers making money off their hunt. Hell I wanted to buy some things but was limited on the amount of coin I had to spend.
DFW made it seem like the only reason Native Sealers hunt is for food.
Redfox161616 on 01 Jun 2008 at 12:26 am #
[..YouTube..] no they did not
Redfox161616 on 01 Jun 2008 at 12:28 am #
[..YouTube..] thank you lets expell this trash
dolphin709 on 08 Jun 2008 at 7:39 pm #
[..YouTube..] hahaha paul watson , hes a f*#$in con , they got what they deserve tryin to ruin people lively hoods ,he dont know people depends on the seal hunt to put food on the table to feed there familys….. looking at the sea sheppard boat today its ready to sink and leakin fuel all over the place the port athority is ready to condemn the old scow!!!
KnightRyder0101 on 22 Jun 2008 at 3:57 pm #
[..YouTube..] Call the next Association of Sealers meeting, and get all the Canadian seal killers all rounded up in the same place. Then chain the doors to the place and throw away the key. Just let them club and eat eachother. If they need a coat, they can peel and wear eachothers human skin. And then explain how its their right.
sirveyz2 on 06 Jul 2008 at 1:11 am #
[..YouTube..] what? WHAT?
go eat the gun. by articulating a comment like that you show you can’t be reasoned with. enjoy your wooden shoes.