Seal Defenders Escape the Fury of the Mob

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04/14/2006

 

 

Seal Defenders Escape the Fury of the Mob

 

Rebecca Aldworth and her crew from HSUS were forced to retreat from

Eastern

Canada after a mob surrounded the Four Seasons Inn in Blanc Sablon, Quebec, and

threatened their lives.

 

Members of the mob of pro-sealers had already rammed a van carrying

activists

and journalists, and had damaged a car rented by the activists.

 

Local police were not very helpful. Quebec Provincial Police finally

escorted

the 15 activists and journalists to the airport where they found that their

helicopters

had been forced to leave.

 

When it comes to protecting access to the ice to kill seals, Canada spares

no expense and the police can be counted to be on the scene to protect the

?rights?

of the sealers to slaughter seals. However, when it comes to the rights of

citizens

to observe and document the atrocities committed by these sealers, the police

and

the government display a very biased position.

 

It is practically a crime to be compassionate and kind in Canada today.

 

Sealers are presently engaged with exterminating the lives of some 234,000

seal pups. Considering the Gulf slaughter quota was exceeded by over 16,000

seals,

it is likely that the Front massacre will also be exceeded. There is no quota

enforcement

by the Canadian government against the sealers. The government according to DFO

spokesperson Roger Simon on the Magdalen Islands looks on the quota more as a

guideline

and not a regulation.

 

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society was not at the Gulf or the Front this

year,

although our ship was very active in both areas in 2005. Because our flagship,

the

Farley Mowat, had just returned to South Africa from our whale campaign in

Antarctica,

the distance and the cost were too far and too expensive to reach the sealing

area

in time to intervene.

 

?We intend to be back intervening against the sealers in 2007,? said

Captain

Paul Watson. ?What is needed is a large crew willing to defy the Government of

Canada,

willing to risk their lives and risk arrest to intervene to protect these

innocent

lives from the brutality and excesses of this barbaric and archaic massacre. The

protests need to be escalated. We need to be more determined and more aggressive

than ever before because we are dealing with a stubborn government that has

already

demonstrated they are willing to wash the Canadian flag in blood to defend their

pride in this slaughter.?

 

The opposition to the slaughter of seals is growing stronger each year.

The

2005 campaign opened the gates of awareness and the 2006 campaign has allowed

the

world to enter the arena.

 

?This obscenity, this horrific mass slaughter of innocent seals is now

recognized

by people all over the world,? said Captain Watson. ?Thanks to Paul and Heather

McCartney, Brigitte Bardot, Persia White, Martin Sheen, Dan Haggerty, Rutger

Hauer,

and Richard Dean Anderson who have harnessed their celebrity for this cause.

Thanks

to HSUS, PETA, IFAW, Harpseals.org, Canadian Alliance for Animals, and so many

other

groups, this cause is growing. We are on a roll and we will defeat this evil,

this

blemish on humanity and we will win because we are defending life and our

opponents

are defending death.?

 

 

 

You can bomb the world to pieces

You can't bomb it into peace