Canadian - Environmentalist | December 2, 1950 -
My concern is not for the judicial system, but for the reality that the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica has a price on my head, and a Costa Rican prison would provide an excellent opportunity for someone to exercise this lethal contract against me.
Paul Watson
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Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy.
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In December 2012, the U.S. 9th district court granted a temporary injunction to the Japanese whalers that ordered the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society U.S.A. to not approach within 500 yards of the whaling vessels.
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Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal Japanese whaling.
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There's money to be made by driving a species extinct.
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Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet.
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Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion.
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There's no rest when you're on planetary duty.
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Costa Rica and Germany have simply been pawns in the Japanese quest to silence Sea Shepherd in an attempt to stop our annual opposition of their illegal whaling activities.
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Putting Zodiacs in front of whaling vessels doesn't do it anymore. Done that, been there, seen that.
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The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
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Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking?
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