Fw: Paul Watson Wanted for Conspiracy to Protect Seals

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Fw: Paul Watson Wanted for Conspiracy to Protect Seals

 

 

 

 

Les, Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:48:06 -0700 (PDT)

 

Paul Watson [paulwatson]

Tuesday, July 12, 2005 8:43 PM

My regrets but I won't be able to attend the

BOD meeting.

 

Wanted for Conspiracy to Protect Seals

 

My sincere apologies but I won't be able to attend the

Sierra Club Board

meeting.

 

I arrived in Halifax today. I did some television

interviews prior to

giving a lecture at Dalhousie University. It was a

good crowd but I

noticed a number of police officers and Department of

Fisheries and

Oceans officers in the audience.

 

I was warned that they intended to arrest me after the

lecture.

 

I left by a rear exit. A police officer spotted me and

said, " Mr.

Watson.... "

 

He made a mistake in not identifying himself as a

police officer so I

was under no obligation to stop.

 

That's all I heard. I ducked down a stairwell of the

Student Union

Building. He followed. I ran down three flights of

stairs and I could

hear feet pounding the stairs above me. I had no idea

where the stairs

were leading but they brought me to the ground floor.

I was outside and

ran up a short flight of steps, around a corner and

ducked into a pub. I

went to an upper level of the pub where there was an

unoccupied beverage

room and watched as police surrounded the Student

Union Building. They

proceeded to stake out the building for three hours. I

waited them out

then went to my rental car and left.

 

I had no idea why they were intent upon arresting me.

I've since

discovered that the warrant is for conspiracy to

disrupt the Canadian

seal hunt. This stems from my taking my ship Farley

Mowat into the Gulf

of St. Lawrence in March and off the coast of Labrador

in April.

 

The police know that you are expecting me at the

Sierra Club Board

meeting. So regrettably I cannot attend. If I do they

will arrest me,

transport me to Charlottetown for a bail hearing. and

I will miss the

meeting anyway.

 

Thus I am returning to the U.S.A.. I'm sorry Elizabeth

but the smell of

bananas here in Canada is strong. I have hurt no one.

I've damaged no

property. I simply documented an atrocity. My crew

were violently

assaulted and we video taped the assaults yet not a

single charge is

being laid against the sealers, yet they are putting

eleven of my crew

on trial for approaching a seal hunt and now they are

seeking to arrest

me for conspiracy to document the slaughter of seals.

 

It is for this reason that we are advocating a boycott

of Canadian

seafood products and remember there are NO sustainable

oceanic species.

The cod fishery has collapsed and I predicted 20 years

ago that it

would. I am now predicting that the snow crab fishery

will collapse

within two years. The Canadian Department of Fisheries

and Oceans is

overseeing the complete destruction of the oceanic

eco-systems of the

Northwestern Atlantic ocean.

 

So for those of you who wish to feast on lobster,

scallops, snow crabs,

or fish during this meeting, remember these species

are no different

than the bush meat that we condemn in Africa. We are

systematically

hunting down and exterminating entire species of

marine life - just so

people can have the luxury of dining on exotic flesh.

 

Anyone who partakes of the flesh of these species

cannot call themselves

conservationists.

 

So I'll see you in September if I am successful in

avoiding the

gendarmes here in the Great White North.

 

On the lam in Nova Scotia.

 

Captain Paul Watson

 

Captain Paul Watson

 

Founder and President - Sea Shepherd Conservation

Society - Sierra Club USA - The Farley Mowat Institute

President - Oceanic Research and Conservation Action

Force

P.O. Box 2616

Friday Harbor, Wa 98250

Tel: 360-370-5650 Cell: 310-701-3096

E-mail: Paulwatson

[Paulwatson @ earthlink.net]

Website: www.Seashepherd.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fw: Paul Watson Wanted for Conspiracy to Protect Seals

 

 

 

 

Les, Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:48:06 -0700 (PDT)

 

Paul Watson [paulwatson]

Tuesday, July 12, 2005 8:43 PM

My regrets but I won't be able to attend the

BOD meeting.

 

Wanted for Conspiracy to Protect Seals

 

My sincere apologies but I won't be able to attend the

Sierra Club Board

meeting.

 

I arrived in Halifax today. I did some television

interviews prior to

giving a lecture at Dalhousie University. It was a

good crowd but I

noticed a number of police officers and Department of

Fisheries and

Oceans officers in the audience.

 

I was warned that they intended to arrest me after the

lecture.

 

I left by a rear exit. A police officer spotted me and

said, " Mr.

Watson.... "

 

He made a mistake in not identifying himself as a

police officer so I

was under no obligation to stop.

 

That's all I heard. I ducked down a stairwell of the

Student Union

Building. He followed. I ran down three flights of

stairs and I could

hear feet pounding the stairs above me. I had no idea

where the stairs

were leading but they brought me to the ground floor.

I was outside and

ran up a short flight of steps, around a corner and

ducked into a pub. I

went to an upper level of the pub where there was an

unoccupied beverage

room and watched as police surrounded the Student

Union Building. They

proceeded to stake out the building for three hours. I

waited them out

then went to my rental car and left.

 

I had no idea why they were intent upon arresting me.

I've since

discovered that the warrant is for conspiracy to

disrupt the Canadian

seal hunt. This stems from my taking my ship Farley

Mowat into the Gulf

of St. Lawrence in March and off the coast of Labrador

in April.

 

The police know that you are expecting me at the

Sierra Club Board

meeting. So regrettably I cannot attend. If I do they

will arrest me,

transport me to Charlottetown for a bail hearing. and

I will miss the

meeting anyway.

 

Thus I am returning to the U.S.A.. I'm sorry Elizabeth

but the smell of

bananas here in Canada is strong. I have hurt no one.

I've damaged no

property. I simply documented an atrocity. My crew

were violently

assaulted and we video taped the assaults yet not a

single charge is

being laid against the sealers, yet they are putting

eleven of my crew

on trial for approaching a seal hunt and now they are

seeking to arrest

me for conspiracy to document the slaughter of seals.

 

It is for this reason that we are advocating a boycott

of Canadian

seafood products and remember there are NO sustainable

oceanic species.

The cod fishery has collapsed and I predicted 20 years

ago that it

would. I am now predicting that the snow crab fishery

will collapse

within two years. The Canadian Department of Fisheries

and Oceans is

overseeing the complete destruction of the oceanic

eco-systems of the

Northwestern Atlantic ocean.

 

So for those of you who wish to feast on lobster,

scallops, snow crabs,

or fish during this meeting, remember these species

are no different

than the bush meat that we condemn in Africa. We are

systematically

hunting down and exterminating entire species of

marine life - just so

people can have the luxury of dining on exotic flesh.

 

Anyone who partakes of the flesh of these species

cannot call themselves

conservationists.

 

So I'll see you in September if I am successful in

avoiding the

gendarmes here in the Great White North.

 

On the lam in Nova Scotia.

 

Captain Paul Watson

 

Captain Paul Watson

 

Founder and President - Sea Shepherd Conservation

Society - Sierra Club USA - The Farley Mowat Institute

President - Oceanic Research and Conservation Action

Force

P.O. Box 2616

Friday Harbor, Wa 98250

Tel: 360-370-5650 Cell: 310-701-3096

E-mail: Paulwatson

[Paulwatson @ earthlink.net]

Website: www.Seashepherd.org