Did you know tobacco companies pay agencies to discredit health organizations? This is the same thing here.
I would like to see the source of this article. Paul Watson founded Greenpeace and later moved away from it because he was sick of the ‘peaceful’ protests. This was mainly because fighting whalers by filming the hunting was not being productive. He bought his own boat with his own money and sunk a whaling ship. This is what caused him to move away from Green Peace and to form the Sea Shepheard society. Greenpeace didn’t agree with this hardline tactic.
He now has several full time boats. One patrols the galapagos fighting illegal fishing . The main ship is 180ft long, do you have any idea how much fuel a boat of this size eats?
As for the sealing raising money. Most of it goes back to the Canadian government. Each time someone tries to film the hunt without a permit they are inprisoned and fined by the Canadian government.
In Canada you have to pay to film the hunt and sometimes they refuse the payment. If they do you are considered to be unlawfully approaching a seal hunt closer than one half nautical mile without permission of the Federal Minister of Fisheries and also with violating the Seal Protection Act. Many people have gone to jail because of this. It’s funny how the seal protection act protects sealers and inprisons those protecting them, but that is the hypocrisy of this government.
Also, Sea Shephard society is registered in the USA and the IRS has found no wrong doings.
Newfoundlanders seem to think that organizations that fight the hunt are all taking money. I’ve personally had emails sent to me accusing me of making money with my website. Here’s one example:
‘It would be nice if you got your facts right on the Canadian
Government. This just goes to show that all you are in it for is the money
that you can scam from people who just don’t know the difference.’
I would like to know how this person thinks I am making money. Some people just cant seem to realize that some people do things that are not for money. Maybe I make money my listing charities and he thinks those charities kickback potential donations…