Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
P.O. Box 2616,
Friday Harbor,
WA
98250
Phone 310-456-1141 |
Fax 310-456-2488 |
Email seashepherd@seashepherd.org
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Earth First!
The Earth First! Journal always has space for the essays of Paul Watson, founder and generalissimo of the aquatic-terrorist Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Watson described for Journal readers how Rodney Coronado and David Howitt -- then sailing the seas as Sea Shephard crewmen -- sunk three fishing boats. “Right now we‘re in the early stages of World War III,” Watson has argued. “We are the navy to Earth First!‘s army ... Eventually there will be open war.”
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Environmental Working Group
The Environmental Working Group and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society co-signed an open letter in 2004 that urged American consumers to boycott Ford automobiles.
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Foundation on Economic Trends
Howard Lyman, the former executive director of the Foundation on Economic Trends' Beyond Beef Coalition, serves on the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's Board of Advisors. That Sea Shepherd's idea of animal protection is to attack fishermen with firearms and sink their boats doesn't seem to bother Lyman, the "Mad Cowboy."
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Greenpeace
Sea Shepherd founding president Paul Watson was also a co-founder of Greenpeace. The group expelled him in 1977 because it disapproved of his violent tactics. In 2004, a campaign to boycott Ford automobiles was endorsed by both Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd.
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Humane Society of the United States
Humane Society of the United States senior vice president Heidi Prescott also serves as an advisory board member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a group that practices high-seas piracy in “defense” of whales, fish, and other sea creatures.
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
PETA co-founder and former chairman Alex Pacheco started his career with SSCS, in the late 1970s. He now serves on its Animal Welfare, Humane and Animal Rights Advisory Board. Pacheco is rumored to be a “commander” of the Animal Liberation Front and has been subpoenaed in connection to ALF activities.
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Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
PCRM’s Jerry Vlasak is on the Board of Directors of the Sea Shephard Conservation Society. He is also Sea Shepherd’s Treasurer. Vlasak is the Secretary-Treasurer of the Animal Defense League Los Angeles, where Allison Lance, the wife of Sea Shepherd “captain” Paul Watson, serves as director.
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Ruckus Society
An ad appearing the February 5, 2004 issue of the New York Times viciously attacked Ford Motor Company’s CEO over fuel efficiency issues. Ruckus and Sea Shepherd were among the radical green groups who co-signed the ad.
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SHAC
Convicted arsonist Rodney Coronado has long been involved with the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), which the FBI has identified as the country’s most dangerous domestic terrorist threat, and the special-interest ALF subset known as SHAC. He got his start in the terrorist community by joining SSCS immediately after graduating from high school in 1984. Two years later, he planned and executed a SSCS attack on the Icelandic whaling fleet. SHAC organizer and spokesman Joshua Harper has also served as a SSCS crewmember. He was jailed in 1999 for attacking Native Americans on a whale hunt; Paul Watson’s ex-wife Lisa Distefano and current wife Allison Lance were also charged in that protest.
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Sierra Club
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) founder Paul Watson sits on the Sierra Club's board of directors, a perch from which he has openly called for an animal-rights-friendly slate of new board members to gain control of the organization. Sea Shepherd board member Ben Zuckerman is also a Sierra Club director. Watson has declared: "There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write the history." Sea Shepherd's main purpose is to sail the high seas in search of fishing boats to terrorize, ram, and sink. The group has sunk at least ten boats to date. Watson has also served as mentor to some of the nastiest animal-rights radicals around, including convicted arsonist Rodney Coronado, and militant Animal Liberation Front activist Josh Harper.
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Tides Foundation & Tides Center
In early 2004, the Tides Foundation/Tides Center complex and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society were among the many co-signers of an open letter urging consumers not to buy Ford automobiles.
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