Paul Watson & Sea Shepherd Bring It Prime Time

--> -->  -->Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd, the Japanese, Whales,  Larry King & Bob Barker

Paul brings his long crusade of anti-whaling to prime time - Whale Wars is a hit on Animal Planet and on July 1^st, 2010, a second appearance on Larry King Live, with Bob Barker. Barker, a longtime animal advocate, gave Sea Shepherd a cool 5 Mil to continue their efforts. I think they both deserve KNIGHTHOODS. 

For anyone who has followed Paul Watson’s controversial career, it is quite historic that his presence is now Prime Time, considering this guy, for the past, ew, 40 years has spent most of his life defending those who cannot defend themselves – working to get the press to pay attention, so injustices could be exposed to the public. Then he gets called a media whore, which could not be further from the truth. Watson is dedicated, smart, courageous and a force to be reckoned with. I challenge anyone to spend any time with the man, and tell me different. Let’s put any other myths to the contrary to rest. 

Paul and his crew stand up to those who slaughter whales illegally, while they migrate for birthing in a designated sanctuary, which Japan refuses to recognize.  This is why Sea Shepherd goes down to the Southern Pacific Ocean each fall, and have been thwarting the Japanese Whalers from killing the birthing Whales within Sanctuary territory - and what the show WHALE WARS captures on film. Whales usually have one, maybe two calves, which they nurture for up to 5 years. So when the mother is killed, her Calf flounders and dies. Maybe ends up shark food with no protection. Or sometimes they just slaughter it along with it’s mother, like below. What the heck, as it's just floating around confused and grieving from watching its mother get blown up and die, easy prey. 

...I know it’s not as much fun to look at as, say, Lady Ga Ga dressed like a  Jelly Doughnut or something, but we can no longer NOT look at these things. The whales are killed with harpoon guns that have explosives on them, so the spear explodes when it pierces them. Many species of Whales are endangered, yet   this madness continues.  There is controversy regarding the stats on Whale population. Authorities really don't know and can only guess how many Whales roam the ocean, but scientists and biologists agree, because of climate change and commercial kills, populations are decreasing, some drastically more than others.

Despite a global moratorium on commercial whaling since 1986 and the establishment of the Southern Ocean as an international whale sanctuary in 1994, more than 1,500 whales are hunted and killed each year for their meat. Looks like some people never got the memo.     
The Japanese Whalers are breaking the law and getting away with murder, through a loophole in the moratorium saying you could kill whales for....rrresearch.  Thousands of whales for research. How much whale blubber do you need to fill a bunch of test tubes? What a farce, check the pic below of the Japanese Whaling ship Nisshin Maru, with RESEARCH written huge on it’s side, IN ENGLISH. This is the most blatant (and if not so tragic, hilarious) example of a mislead tactic for covering up, that I have witnessed, ever

 

Someone needs to stop this deception and violation at once. Oh, I forgot, that's what Watson's been doing - going right where he needed to be, and put his life on the line with others with the same conviction. The good Captain Watson never puts any lives in danger, these are willing participants, and there are millions more, who feel that strongly about this ongoing mass slaughter of innocence and grace. I think Anna Cummins said it best, "There came a time when convictions grew more powerful than my comfort." Many people are feeling like this, there is so very much at stake. 


Governments have been more concerned about their commercial interests with Japan, than the lives of majestic creatures who are endangered, and, the extinction of the grandest species on earth. Some say the governing force for whale conservation and quotas IWC (International Whaling Commission) need to be watched...the Japanese are throwing lotsa YEN around. One delegate was found to be offering his vote to the highest bidder. Too often big money corporations bribe, cut costs, rush quality control through, insist they've done the tests, will abide by quotas, promising nothing drastic can happen via their efforts. I can sum that up in two letters. BP. There is far too much at stake for this kind of social irresponsibility. It is treason against a race, the human race, and all life on this planet. 

Paul Watson steps in when there is a breach and the authorities don’t do their job.  He’s the ultimate enforcer of ocean conservation, and we should all thank God for him. Watson and his crew, some of the nicest people you'd ever meet, get called terrorists by Japanese spin doctoring and thus misinformed people, they are watched by the FBI, arrested, harassed, physically attacked, their million dollar alternative energy ship demolished - anything the Whalers do to Sea Shepherds goes unanswered for and down played. Adversely, a rancid butter stick hurled by Sea Shepherd crew member Paul Bethune at a Whaling ship made a guy's face red and Paul is facing 2 years in a Japanese prison. Fair? WHERE ARE THE NEW ZEALAND AUTHORITIES... CRYPTIC MESSAGE : GROW A PAIR.

Thanks to Watson's longtime dedication and undeterred persistence, the truth is coming out, and it seems who many thought were the bad guys, are the good guys. Heros. Who’da thunk. Well, many of us knew, the truth sometimes takes a minute to get untangled from the grip of big money’s PR. 

Get involved. Sea Shepherd’s website. www.seashepherd.org no time like the present, considering, we’re running out of it. Oh, and send the Japan Whaling Association alittle note, they said on their site they like hearing from people. They’re the ones who think hunting whales is just dandy. The ones who make up distortion and excuses so they can slaughter more pregnant and nursing whales.

Japan Whaling Association    Email: kujira@whaling.jp

Heck, while you’re at it, the IWC International Whaling Commission, sure could use a bunch of people urging them to do their jobs and refuse corruption - just in case, God forbid, they would ever so such a thing. Oh, and  ummm, ask if they have any Swiss bank accounts!  secretariat@iwcoffice.org   &   iwcjournal@iwcoffice.org   the links are right here, do something, I've made it simple!

I salute you Paul Watson, the good captain, and the Sea Shepherd crew for your many years of hard work and dedication you’ve devoted to saving the majestic, most grand life in our oceans, and others like them who suffer due to greed and apathy.  We’re behind you 150%. 
  

That’s the skinny, now you know. Make it count, write those emails, to your Senators, express your opinions. 

For the earth, Linda Raya Carel...
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