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He'd be the first person ever to use group association as a means to gain implicit trust from another group and thereby infiltrate that group to his own ends? Or he'd just be the first person to do so imitating Greenpeace?
Either way, I think the question of "is GreenPeace" violent is somewhat less important than the point that lucifer brings up in his post 129. If these types of protests become more common in the Great Lakes, at what point do we decide that it's interfering too much with a vital trade route between Canada and the US. Since RB wants me to say it, I will just say that given the choice between the two, I'd have protesting go out in favor of trade with our biggest trading partner.
The concern is that this single incident looks like it cost lucifer's company in the neighborhood of $50-100k dollars in terms of actual expenses and opportunity cost. And the people who perptrated the act aren't really getting punished all that severely. That might make it a tempting way for other protesters to try to disturb this vital trade route. Furthermore, just because GreenPeace is the ones doing it now, that doesn't mean that ELF et al won't notice that it's not being taken very seriously and do something that's not "peaceful" on a ship. (yay I used a slippery slope argument)
Really, I think protesting is one thing. Boarding a ship is quite another.
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