Hardly a “Terrorist”

In his foreword to my book, Exposing the Big Game: Living Targets of a Dying Sport, Captain Paul Watson wrote:

“There is only one vicious creature stalking the wilderness and that is the hominid primate that has become a divine legend in its own mind. The enemy is us and the real challenge is to subdue the destructive urges within each of us and to channel those urges in the direction of affirming life and not taking it. The primitive man is a killer ape, the evolved man or woman is a shepherd protecting life.

“The cruelty and destruction that humans have inflicted upon each other is surpassed only by the cruelty and destruction humans have inflicted upon the non-human citizens of this world. …

“It’s time to make peace with our fellow citizens, to live in harmony with them and to understand that those who today club seals, harpoon whales, shoot bears, trap beaver, hook a shark, or blast a goose with a shotgun will be viewed in the future in the same light as we now view slavers, warlords, gangsters and politicians.”

Hardly the words of a dangerous terrorist, though perhaps the words of someone who could be considered a danger to a corrupt and vicious system. We need people like Paul Watson to shine the light on the real criminals of the world and expose their crimes against the thousands of voiceless victims of an over-consumptive society.

A new petition is circulating asking the President senate and congress to stop treating Sea shepherd as terrorists:

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society advocates a no whale hunt policy and is often labeled terrorist because they stand up for the whales against government policies that support Japan

Please sign the petition here:

http://www.change.org/petitions/the-president-senate-and-congress-to-stop-treating-sea-shepherd-as-terrorists