Sea Shepherd Contemplates Voyage to the Labrador Front
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Sea Shepherd News
04/03/2005
Sea Shepherd Contemplates Voyage to the Impending Seal Slaughter on
the Labrador Front
Report from the Farley Mowat
1100 Hours AST
The mass slaughter of seal pups in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is over
for 2005. The ignorant savages that so horrifically and inhumanely
slew thousands of innocent creatures are limping home, some with their
holds full of bloody pelts and some with very little to show for it.
Some of the sealing vessels are still in trouble. The Gulf Venture was
calling for Coast Guard assistance at 0900 hours today, and pleading
to be towed into a Newfoundland port.
The notorious Brady Mariner, whose crew viciously assaulted some of
the Farley Mowat crew on April 1^st, was broken down in the ice last
night. The crew of the Farley Mowat now refer to these thugs as the
Brady Bunch. It was entertaining to hear them whine all through the
day and night about being broken down and being questioned by the
Mounties about their "alleged" assault.
The survivors of the massacre, the seal pups, are learning to swim and
feed and are becoming aware of the marine environment that will be
their home. They are the lucky ones, who survived because chance
allowed them to not be seen by the thugs with the clubs and the guns.
The sealers certainly presented themselves in a manner that brought
shame to Newfoundland, the Magdalen Islands, and Canada. Sealers
violently assaulted the crew of the Farley Mowat. They brutally
assaulted a film crew from the International Fund for Animal Welfare
(IFAW), even to the point of firing rifle shots to intimidate those
who were only armed with cameras. They also threatened a group from
the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). They have been
recorded making death threats, threats of rape to our female crew, and
one rather bizarre individual got his kicks from dropping his pants
and masturbating in front of the women crewmembers on the Farley
Mowat.
There was also plenty of juvenile mooning by guys you would think were
old enough to know better. One crewmember on the Farley Mowat said,
"We have seen plenty of Newfie rear ends to last a lifetime and it was
not a pretty sight. These guys are rude, nude, and have a mean 'tude.
What a credit to Canada."
A criminal investigation is currently underway by the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police into the three separate incidents of assault, assault
and battery, and assault with a deadly weapon.
The Farley Mowat was the last ship to leave the ice last night. The
conservation ship worked its way through forty miles of pack ice
without the assistance of the Coast Guard ice-breakers. "We took some
blows from growlers and hard ice but there is not a dent in this
vessel, she took the ice well," said Captain Paul Watson.
Remnants of blood remained on the ice - scarlet stains now old,
cold, and brown - fading evidence of the horrendous crimes committed
on these recently pristine floes. The pathetic little bodies remained,
frozen now, their open eyes vacantly staring out at a cruel world that
ended their lives so prematurely. But every live seal pup spotted on
the ice was a cause for hope. Sea Shepherd crew watched joyfully every
time a seal pup's head rose from the water or scrambled up on a chunk
of ice.
"They are beautiful," said Laura Dakin from Bermuda. "Yes they are,"
answered Captain Paul Watson. "They are the very symbol of wild
natural beauty and innocence and if our kind can treat such adorable
creatures with such insensitivity and cruelty, then we are capable
of every kind of evil. But then again, the history of the human
species has proven that point already."
The Sea Shepherd ship Farley Mowat now has nowhere to go. The ship is
not welcome in a Canadian port nor can it return to a port in the
United States. The United States Coast Guard has demanded that the
ship be drydocked and the small hole which was repaired by divers in
Maine be permanently repaired prior to re-entry.
"We would like to continue on to the impending slaughter of seals off
the Northern coast of Newfoundland which begins on April 12th," said
Captain Paul Watson. "We need to find crew, buy provisions, and
re-fuel at this point."
"The ice is thicker, the seas more treacherous, the sealing ships more
numerous, the government more hostile, and the sealers more brutal on
the Front than in the Gulf. Not a single protestor has gone there
since Sea Shepherd last confronted them on the Front in 1983. We are
more than ready and willing to tackle the Newfoundland sealing fleet
off the Northern Newfoundland Coast," said Captain Paul Watson.
raylopez99
bears and other natural preditors are gone. Better some Canadian
redneck get some meat and fur rather than have the critters starve to
death. Plus seals catch valuable fish. Fish is an important industry
to Canada. Lots of jobs riding on those fish.
sug...@hotmail.com
Oh!! Seals!!
For a while there I thought you were talking about American
involvement in Vietnam or Iraq.
Yes. Yes. Those bodies are important compared to the bombed out ones
in Iraq.