By any means necessary.
Interpol Puts Red Notice on Sea Shepherd Leader Watson
http://en.rian.ru/Environment/20120808/175063105.htmlInterpol has issued a Red Notice seeking the arrest of the head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Paul Watson, with Costa Rican authorities accuse him of violating maritime law, according to a statement published on the Interpol website on Tuesday.
A Canadian citizen, Watson was arrested in Germany in May, and subsequently released on bail of 250,000 euros. After the German court decided to hand Watson, 61, over to Costa Rica he skipped bail and fled the country.
“The Red Notice request is based on a national arrest warrant issued by Costa Rican authorities for Mr Watson, who is wanted for prosecution in relation to a charge of ‘causing a danger of drowning or of an air disaster’ in connection with an incident in April 2002,” the statement reads.
In 2002 while filming a documentary in Guatemalan territorial waters activists of the vessel Sea Shepherd ran into the Costa Rican ship Varadero which was engaged in illegally hunting sharks. Environmentalists urged the crew to stop their actions and return to a port in Costa Rica.
After some time, the Guatemala Coast Guard sent a boat to intercept the Sea Shepherd but the environmentalists managed to escape. Later, the crew members of Varadero accused the activists of allegedly threatening to kill the sailors.
According to the Sea Shepherd, Costa Rican authorities have no evidence. After this incident Watson was put on an international wanted list.
At the end of December 2011 Japanese Institute of Cetacean Research, the organizer of the annual expeditions to Antarctica, filed a lawsuit against the Sea Shepherd. Japanese researchers called on the activists to stop actions which damage whaling vessels and impede their work.
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society was founded in 1977 in the United States and is opposed to whaling in the Antarctic. It actively tries to prevent Japanese whalers hunting marine mammals, and has, on a number of occasions water-jet gun volleys with whaling vessels.
In February 2011 the ‘super’ boat of environmental activists, Ady Gil, sank after colliding with a whaling vessel. After that its captain Peter Bethune was arrested and faced a Japanese court for illegal entry onto the Japanese ship.
By any means necessary.
He pissed away 250 grand of most likely donations on his bail?...what is it between him and Asange and other peoples money...
Other peoples money is just a means to an existence of perpetual gratification.Originally Posted by muttbutt
Good, about time they arrested that ecoterrorist
I hope they arrest him finally and hold him. Its been a Matter of time before him and the other clowns murder someone with their antics.
Can he be arrested with a Harpoon missile? That still counts as arrest, right?
There are many in the 'greens' movement who think the ends, 'saving the Earth', justifies any and all means. They have mostly gotten away with this for decades, but now authorities are finally starting to draw the line. About time. The law applies to *everyone*.
I wonder what animal planet will do now they keep promoting his so-called show??!! here's is the link to Interpol http://www.interpol.int/News-and-med...2/N20120807Bis
This seems appropiate:
I don't agree with his methods, but I think in the end what he is trying to accomplish is worthwhile. Whales are after all a threatened-endangered species. Someone mentioned the law being applicable to everyone... do the Japanese fishermen not claim to be doing "research" in order to exploit a loophole in the law in order continue fishing?
The issue is not why but how. And in this case "how" he does things violates many laws. What others do is another issue for another thread
It would be interesting to see what Animal Planet's reaction would be, considering he's now a wanted fugitive.
Not all Whale specis are endangered.
Does this mean Animal Planet won't air Whale Wars anymore? Aww, I loved watching hippies get owned by their inexperience and incompetence.
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