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Australia lists neo-Nazi organisation The Base as terrorist organisation Posted 28m ago 28 minutes ago Wed 24 Nov at am. SS's founder, Paul Watson, had an injunction slapped against both him and the group that focuses the majority of its efforts at ending that Japanese whaling industry in the South Ocean. Paul is somewhat of an activist bad-ass, he's technically an international fugitive because of the work that he's done to expose whaling organizations. Many believe that the legal troubles that Paul and Sea Shepherd have found themselves in is the reason why Animal Planet backed off from the show and downsized its latest entry from an entire season to just a two-hour special, but this just isn't the case.
If the network was really worried about being on the wrong side of the law, or was intimidated by whaling groups, then they certainly wouldn't have aired the two-hour special. Whos down for an adventure with these guys? Additionally, the network's president, Marjorie Kaplan, called the show "very powerful" and "brand-definitional Even though Sea Shepherd appeared to have an ally in the network that airs its work, it was still at war with Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research.
The ICR won an injunction against the organization that threatened its very existence. SS and Paul Watson were prohibited from coming within yards of any ICR whalers on the open sea, and were strictly prohibited from "physically attacking any vessel engaged by [whalers or] navigating in a manner that is likely to endanger the safe navigation of any such vessel. You may be asking how whaling is legal in this day and age, and it technically isn't.
However, folks who've wanted to get their hands on killing the big ocean creatures came up with a little workaround. Insurance did not cover the losses because the owners had stated that terrorists sank the ships and apparently they were not insured for terrorism. Most importantly, from that day of November 8, , to sixteen years later in the year , the Icelanders did not take another whale. What talk, compromise, negotiations, meetings, letters, petitions and protests had not accomplished, we achieved with a little monkey-wrenching activity in the wee hours of the morning.
Were we terrorists? No, not even criminals, for we were never charged with a crime, even though we made ourselves available for prosecution. We had simply done our duty and we put an end to an unlawful activity. After this passed, Iceland resigned from the IWC, leaving us with the distinction of being the only organisation to enjoy the status of banishment from the IWC. How ironic , I thought, to be the only organisation banned from the IWC because we were the only organisation to have ever enforced an IWC ruling.
It was not much of a punishment. I had never enjoyed listening to the delegates of the member nations barter whales like they were bushels of wheat or pork bellies. I also never had much use for the posturing of the nongovernmental organisations pretending that they were actually making a difference by attending this annual circus.
All that we were interested in were the rulings of the IWC and we fully intended to continue to enforce those rulings. I have been asked many times why we consider the IWC rulings important. Why not just oppose all whaling everywhere? The answer is that we do oppose all whaling by everyone, everywhere.
However, we only actively attack whaling operations that are in violation of international conservation law. The reason for this is simple: We do not presume to be the judges and jury. States and, to the extent they are able, other public authorities, international organizations, individuals, groups and corporations shall… Safeguard and conserve nature in areas beyond national jurisdiction.
As a seaman, I have a great and abiding respect for the traditions of the law of the sea. To attack without a vested authority would be piracy.
Thus, the difference between a privateer like Sir Francis Drake and a pirate like Blackbeard was that the former was in possession of a letter of marque from a sovereign authority and the latter practiced the same trade solely upon his own authority.
However, I feel that when there are laws and international treaties that it is the responsibility of individuals and nongovernmental organisations to strive toward the implementation of these rulings, especially in light of the fact that there is no international body empowered to police these international laws. Nation-states intervene when it is advantageous for them to do so, but little enforcement is carried out in the interests of the common good of all citizens of the planet.
It is worth noting that it was not the British or Spanish navies that brought the piracy of the Caribbean under control in the 17th century.
There were too many conflicts of interest, too much corruption and too little motivation for any real action to have been taken.
The bureaucracies in the British admiralty and the Spanish court did nothing because the very nature of a bureaucracy is the maintenance of the status quo. The achievement of first shutting down piracy on the Spanish Main is attributed to one man — a pirate himself.
Henry Morgan did what two nations chose not to do: He drove the pirates to ground and ended their reign of terror. In fact, he was more of a pirate as a politician than he was as an actual pirate. When Andrew Jackson failed to get the support of the merchants of New Orleans to back his attack on the British, it was a pirate who came to his service in the personage of Jean Lafitte.
When the United States successfully endeavored to cast off the yoke of British rule, it was a pirate who achieved the most dramatic and successful naval victory at sea. That person was captain John Paul Jones. Today, with the pirates of corrupt industry aided by corrupt politicians plundering our oceans for the last of the fish, killing the last of the whales and polluting the waters, we find that there is very little real resistance to their activities upon the high seas.
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