Canadian - Environmentalist | December 2, 1950 -
The United Nations World Charter for Nature, section 21, empowers any nongovernmental organisation or individual to uphold international conservation law in areas beyond national jurisdiction and specifically on the high seas.
Paul Watson
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The Brer Rabbit ploy has been quite effective for me. When a country is talking about prosecuting me, I demand to be charged and put on trial and offer to pay my own airfare. They know that I'm going to bring a lot of international media with me and put their whaling programme on trial, and they decide it's better to keep quiet and do nothing.
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In Ecuador, if I go after an Ecuadoran, I'm in trouble; if I go after a Costa Rican, I'm a hero.
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I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation.
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As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it.
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Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence.
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There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.
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I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people.
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There are quite a few disgruntled Greenpeacers who are opposed to its policy of non-cooperation.
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We need to stop flying, stop driving cars and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles.
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Pete Bethune is a hero in New Zealand. He's a hero worldwide to people who want to see the end of whaling.
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Greenpeace has a fast ship that could stop the whalers cold.
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