Yes, it often seems like a bunch of keystone cops screwing up left and right and occasionally lucking into something effective, but at least they’re DOING SOMETHING.

It’s much easier to sit around raising money, hanging banners, chanting slogans, and crying on television for sympathy of a cause than ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING about anything. These people have my utmost respect. I wish more people would get off their asses and DO something about things they care about and that promote the progression of society.

Imagine if America’s founding fathers never got off their asses and just sat back at home across the pond singing ditties and wearing ribbons to protest inequities? Yes, nothing scares people into doing the right thing than chants and ribbons and bumper stickers… ooooh!

It’s clear that the people who post against this sort of thing and slander Watson and his crew fall into one of four categories:

* Part of the whaling industry.
* Right-wing tard who calls EVERYTHING eco-terrorists or femi-nazis because Rish Limbaugh and Glenn Beck tell them to.
* Uneducated ignorant house-fraus and mouth-breathers.
* Green-Peacers and other scammers who care more about showing the world how they care more about stuff than anyone else, while raising money to continue their foundation to afford them to go around showing people how much more they care again and never actually get around to DOING ANYTHING HELPFUL with their time, effort, organization, or money.

Paul Watson and his crews have stones and it pisses people off who just want everyone to wave pretty little flags and sing environmental chants and then go home.

WRONG.

First, saying what you believe doesn’t stop anything. You sound like every one of my fellow lazy assed Americans. Why bother DOING anything when you can just put a yellow ribbon on your SUV or a flag pin on your lapel or wander around your college campus with smarmy slogans on a sign?

This isn’t about “saying what you believe”. This is about people doing the right thing when nobody else will.

Further, your comment that the whaling is “legal there” is entirely ignorant. Educate yourself before making such comments. The area the whaling is occurring in is a god damned WHALE SANCTUARY. The only exception is for scientific research purposes. How god damned stupid and naive are you if you think they’re really killing 1,000 whales every single year in a whale sanctuary for “scientific” purposes?

Some times you have to get off your ass and stand up for what is right, even if it means putting your life on the line. I think these people are a little bit nuts, but I have FAR MORE RESPECT for them than anyone who just sits on their ass and whines about things.

First of all stop freaking out over “acid”. It’s rancid butter aka “buteric acid”. It’s not a big deal.

Second, boo hoo “the japanese have a legal right”. No, they don’t. They are exploiting loopholes with wild abandon and nobody is bothering to do anything about it.

Third, “their tactics are wrong and dangerous.. manufacturing hostage situations blah blah blah”. It’s called TACTICS, you idiots. You do what you have to do.

I’m not an environmentalist. I mean, yeah, I give a damn, but I also eat meat and wear leather and don’t recycle. But I’m all for people taking things into their own hands and doing the right thing when nobody else can be bothered. More, I’m all for these people who are more or less laymen laying their lives on the lines and actually DOING SOMETHING other than posting on the internet or walking around some college campus with a useless sign.

“Get Real”… let’s put it this way… if you are salmon fishing on Lake Michigan, you are under direct American jurisdiction. These guys are at the frigging ANTARCTIC where there is no direct law, except multi-national sanction granting it as a whale sanctuary. Your comparison is flat out stupid.

Your comparison would make more sense if you said “Let’s say I go bear hunting in Montana… but the bears are an endangered and protected species and killing bears is illegal…. EXCEPT for scientific purposes… so I’m just going to go kill every single bear I can and call it “scientific research” even though I’m really just chopping them up for beef-stew”.

And let’s say nobody bothers to enforce the law, so you get away flaunting it in front of everyone.

And then someone says “if nobody will bother to enforce the law, I will stop you”.

There’s nothing more American. Or human. I’m all for it. I hope they continue kicking ass. Eco-terrorists are the idiots who set an entire car lot on fire and destroy logging equipment while putting loggers lives in danger. These guys are trying to stop illegal whaling with jars of rancid butter and sturdy ropes. Hardly eco-terrorism.

Pussies, I have no tolerance for.

I have no love for whaling, and think that is totally unnecessary, but these eco-terrorists have raised sympathy for the whalers and make all people who support saving the whales look like easily dismissed nut jobs including you and Hayden Panattiere. The Sea Shepherds have done the legitimate whale conservationists a great harm and disservice.