Will there be charges laid against the rioters who cut the Sea Shepherd moor line? When the police do not follow the law themselves, they are equivalent to the mafia.

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Kudos to the author of this article as the last article concerning the seal hunt seemed extremely biased.

It's time these animal rights groups were exposed for what they are, terrorists. Regardless of your opinion on the hunt, these groups resort to propaganda and misinformation to draw in public funds. We will not tolerate them, nor did the french fishermen who refused to harbour them.

If you wish to support a legitimate group, I encourage you to donate to your local animal shelter, or the world wildlife foundation, the latter is the only group which actually focuses on protecting on endangered animals, not just on the cute and cuddly for profit.

The seal hunt is approved by veterinarians to be humane, and the seal heard is not endangered and in fact is undergoing a population explosion. A natural resource that can be utilized for years if well managed, providing income and employment for thousands. Remember, fur is green and environmentally friendly in the long run.

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I was arrested and spent a night in a Canadian jail with both Alex & Peter. I am proud to have shared their company. We were on the ice flows in 2005 to document the seal hunt (not really a hunt but hey,). Why document? Why video? Well it seems that the Canadian government likes to keep the blood on the ice from reaching the EU. It is afraid that if the truth of the sealers and their actions were shown to the world then it might find their behavior abhorrent. It might even ban the seals pelts from the EU market. And that's why we were there. To call the hunt humane or green and environmentally friendly is greenwashing on EXXON proportions.

*Ryan* likes to encourage pain on small animals. Lets look at your arguments:
"It's time these animal rights groups were exposed for what they are, terrorists. Regardless of your opinion on the hunt, these groups resort to propaganda and misinformation to draw in public funds. We will not tolerate them, nor did the french fishermen who refused to harbour them."

Terrorist! Coming straight from the GWB school of ad-hominem attacks. When one cannot argue facts or logic then call them terrorist! Let me be the first to tell you that neither I nor Mr. Watson has Al-Queada on our speed dial. We are acting in defense of marine conservation. We are opposed to the largest slaughter of marine mammals in the world. As for spreading propaganda lets set the facts straight. I have been there in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. I have seen the "hunt" with my own eyes. I've seen seals skinned alive. I've seen em bashed, clubbed, beaten, kicked, shot. And the whole time I'm thinking that we do not even treat dogs stray dogs this way. So while one side encourages documentation, encourages people to see this for themselves to make up their own minds the other side wants to ban all cameras and witnesses.
Now why is that Ryan?
If the SSCS is trying to spread propaganda then why does the Canadian government not let witnesses onto the ice. If it is so humane then let it out for all the world to see. The truth is Ryan is just like the Cod collapse the Canadian government does not want the world to know of its incompetence and its gross mismanagement of its own natural resources.

"If you wish to support a legitimate group, I encourage you to donate to your local animal shelter, or the world wildlife foundation, the latter is the only group which actually focuses on protecting on endangered animals, not just on the cute and cuddly for profit."

By supporting the SSCS the donations go into Direct-Action Conservation. It has the respect it does from its donors because it does what it says. It confronts the destruction of the world's marine habitats directly. Whether it be in the whale sanctuary off of Australia, the Galapagos Island of Ecuador, or the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Equal Opportunity defenders.

Still hate SSCS? Then check out IFAW.

"The seal hunt is approved by veterinarians to be humane, and the seal heard is not endangered and in fact is undergoing a population explosion. A natural resource that can be utilized for years if well managed, providing income and employment for thousands. Remember, fur is green and environmentally friendly in the long run."

Check your sources. Those support population explosion numbers come from the DFO. The DFO works for the sealers and has an inherent interest in fudging the numbers up. This is exactly what they did to the cod population numbers in order to justify their increase in cod catches. All the way up until the cod fisheries collapsed.

Now Ryan, given the DFO blundering in the cod fiasco why would you still believe them? Why would you believe them over Mr. Watson who has been working tirelessly to highlight the destruction of marine ecosystems. Heck he even chased out foreign flagged trawling ships poaching inside of Canadian waters. All they way until he was arrested, of coarse, by the DFO. Because they did not want to admit that the Canadian government was wrong. Given the track recored of the two who would you trust to tell you what is right?

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The seals aren't endangered at all. The hunt is regulated. And they don't take baby seals anymore. It's an important source of livelihood for the maritimers.
It's totally out of line to try and dictate to these people how they should or shouldn't make a living.

You may as well interfere in slaughter houses and poultry processing plants.

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i think laying charges is absolutely uncalled for! it is alright for human beings to go and brutally murder seals, not a hunt but a barbaric clubbing, but it is not alright for people to protest it and do whatever they can to stop it???

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