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Lucifer · 09-14-2007, 08:18 AM

While, I can agree that Greenpeace is technically non-violent, the thing that has most of us worried, and this is what I said in my statement to the police, is that Greenpeace has effectively let the genie out of the bottle with this action. No ship has ever been boarded in the Great Lakes in this manner before. We are all afraid that we will see more types of this action in the future. While this protest may have been non-violent, who is to say that the next one will be. The next time it could be the Sea Shepard Society, or ELF, or it could be actual terrorists. The Great Lakes is the lifeblood of the American and Canadian industrial heartland. I couldn't count the number of American and Canadian Steel mills and smelters that are re-supplied from ships on the lakes, not to mention the grain ships from Thunder Bay, Duluth and Superior. Scuttling a ship in the Welland Canal, the St. Lawrence Seaway or the Sault Locks would effectively paralyze the industrial sector for months.

09-14-2007, 08:18 AM	#129 (permalink)
Lucifer Husband of Seamaiden Location: Nova Scotia	While, I can agree that Greenpeace is technically non-violent, the thing that has most of us worried, and this is what I said in my statement to the police, is that Greenpeace has effectively let the genie out of the bottle with this action. No ship has ever been boarded in the Great Lakes in this manner before. We are all afraid that we will see more types of this action in the future. While this protest may have been non-violent, who is to say that the next one will be. The next time it could be the Sea Shepard Society, or ELF, or it could be actual terrorists. The Great Lakes is the lifeblood of the American and Canadian industrial heartland. I couldn't count the number of American and Canadian Steel mills and smelters that are re-supplied from ships on the lakes, not to mention the grain ships from Thunder Bay, Duluth and Superior. Scuttling a ship in the Welland Canal, the St. Lawrence Seaway or the Sault Locks would effectively paralyze the industrial sector for months. __________________ I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. - Job 30:29 1123, 6536, 5321 Last edited by Lucifer; 09-14-2007 at 08:36 AM..