Sir Paul McCartney Takes on the Doofus Department and Wins

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Sir Paul McCartney Takes on the Doofus Department and

Wins

 

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Commentary by Paul Watson

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

 

The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

is without a doubt the most incompetent, most

mismanaged, and most ridiculous bureaucratic

department of the Government of Canada.

 

For years, I have referred to them as the Doofus

Department or the Department of Fishy Business. With

their bevy of biostitutes and their legion of swivel

servants, the DFO have overseen the near total

destruction of commercial fisheries on both the East

and the West coasts of Canada.

 

I call DFO scientists “biostitutes” because they

provide the “science” to justify the political

policies of DFO.

 

It was these biostitutes who said that the Northern

cod populations were healthy right up to the day the

fisheries crashed. The cod fishery was so devastated

by overfishing that it will never recover the result

of a combination of bad science and bad politics.

 

They had not learned their lessons from the sixties

when the DFO experts said the same thing about the

pilot whales that Canada was slaughtering by the tens

of thousands to feed to mink. One day, the pilot

whales disappeared and the biostitutes mumbled

something about fluctuations of ocean currents leading

to a temporary movement of the whales elsewhere. The

trouble is, no one else ever saw them elsewhere and

they never returned to Newfoundland.

 

It is this same Doofus Department that we are now

expected to trust to “manage” the harp seals.

 

And now we have another shallow-brained Doofuscrat by

the name of Roger Simond graciously stating that Sir

Paul McCartney and his wife Heather “will not” be

charged with harassing a baby seal by petting it.

 

" When disturbance is of such a minor nature, you

wouldn't bring someone to

court on something like this, " Simond said. " Somebody

would say that the Canadian government and the

Canadian taxpayers must have better things to do than

haul Paul McCartney into court because he touched a

seal. "

 

Interesting. Last year, the Canadian government spent

a great deal of money prosecuting eleven of my crew

for the “crime” of approaching a seal being killed.

 

You see, in Canada, it is illegal to photograph, film,

or witness a seal being killed without permission from

the Doofus Department.

 

Last year, film crews from Sea Shepherd Conservation

Society, the Humane Society of the United States and

the International Fund for Animal Welfare were all

physically attacked by sealers. Sea Shepherd crew were

struck with clubs and bloodied.

 

No charges were laid because the Mounties said the

sealers were provoked into violence because of the

presence of anti-sealing people on the ice.

 

It would look pretty ridiculous indeed to charge Paul

McCartney with petting a seal after letting sealers

off the hook for clubbing people.

 

Already the Doofus Department has cost the Canadian

fishing industry tens of millions of dollars because

of the growing international boycott on Canadian

seafood products. How many hundreds of millions is

Canada prepared to lose in order to continue defending

the indefensible slaughter of seal pups?

 

The Minister of the Doofus Department Mr. Loyola Hearn

did not have the guts to defend the hunt himself on

CNN’s Larry King program that featured Sir Paul

McCartney and his wife Lady Heather Mills McCartney.

 

Instead, they unleashed the embarrassment of Premier

Danny Williams who was clearly out-classed and

out-maneuvered by the McCartney’s.

 

Williams denied that the club was used to kill seals

as video footage was simultaneously being shown,

illustrating quite vividly the seals being clubbed. He

kept trying to deflect the topic to other issues

including a lame attempt to remind people of

Newfoundland’s support for America after 9-11. In

other words, “we allowed your planes to land in our

province after 9-11 (because they had to land

somewhere) so how dare you Americans feel guilty for

even thinking that the seal slaughter was cruel.”

 

Williams described himself as an animal lover who also

by the way supports bashing in the heads of seal pups.

He also clearly demonstrated that he himself knew less

about the seals and the seal hunt than Paul McCartney

who he kept insulting by calling him a stooge for the

terrorist anti-sealing organizations.

 

Doofus Spokesperson Roger Simond repeated this insult

when he said that Sir Paul’s knowledge of the seal

hunt was limited to " a crash-course, Humane Society of

the United States brainwashing thing. "

 

The most glaring indictment of the DFO as an

incompetent bureaucracy is the fact that they were

out-maneuvered, out-classed, and left looking

ridiculous by a former Beatle and his wife.

 

How much longer will Canada continue to defend the

cruel and bloody massacre of hundreds of thousands of

seal pups every year?

 

How much destruction must the environment suffer, how

many more fisheries must crash, and how many more

species decimated before something is done to stop the

ecological mayhem inflicted upon us by the arrogant

bureaucrats of the Canadian Department of Fisheries

and Oceans?

 

Captain Paul Watson is a Canadian and the Founder and

current President of the Sea Shepherd Conservation

Society, co-founder of Greenpeace, and a National of the Sierra Club of the United States. He

is also the author of Seal Wars! He had been defending

seals for over thirty years.

 

 

P.O. Box 2616, Friday Harbor, WA 98250 (USA) Tel:

360-370-5650 Fax: 360-370-5651

2006 Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

All rights reserved.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I'm so proud of him and Heather. He is a knight!

Bonnie

 

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