The forgotten front in the war on terrorism...
Here is a terrifying piece by Thomas Ryan in Front Page Magazine online. My. Ryan details the misdeeds of Paul Watson, one of the founders of Greenpeace and ecoterrorist extraordinaire. Mr. Watson is responsible for such clever statements as:
“There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win.”
“earthworms are far more valuable than people.”
“The world will be a much nicer place without us,” and that he “owed no allegiance to humanity.”
After maiming a logger in America by spiking trees, Watson said: “Those loggers don’t give a damn for future generations… And if they don’t have any compassion for the future, I don’t have any compassion for them.”
Nice guy huh?
Mr. Watson is also the skipper of a terror fleet on the high seas:
>>>Watson oversees a small fleet of ships outfitted with cement-filled bows built for the sole purpose of violently ramming and sinking ships they deem as enemies of the environment; this could take on the shape of everything from large whaling ships to small commercial fishing vessels. Each boat of Watson’s is armed with high-powered water cannons and is protected by electrical barbed wire. They have used acid, explosives, and a host of other means to disable and sink “enemy” ships. Watson himself has been known to brandish an AK-47 that he has used to fire on targeted fishing vessels. And painted on the sides of his ships are the names of those boats he has sunk.<<<
I guess this is where the "peace" part of Greenpeace comes from. Watson would be just another crank environmentalist, but he also holds the distinction of having been elected to the board of directors of the Sierra Club and it's $95 million a year budget in April of 2003. Watson has made clear that he hopes to transform the Sierra Club, already a radical environmental organzation, into a potentially violent ultraradical environmental/animal rights force.
Ryan sums up Watson and his ilk quite nicely:
>>>While Watson continues to roam the seas with aspirations of violently sinking the world’s fish suppliers, somewhere in the world, Islamic terrorists – Watson’s idea of “freedom fighters” – are seeking the complete destruction of the United States, regardless of our policies on the environment. Politically, they differ. In terms of their tactics, they are Watson’s soulmates.<<<
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