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Jinn · 09-14-2007, 11:58 AM

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Although Greenpeace insists that its activities are entirely nonviolent, growing evidence suggests that it may covertly participate in direct violence against people and property. Indeed, even animals are not exempt. As reported by Robert W. Lee in the November 20, 1989 issue of The New American, members of the group have in the past sprayed Canadian baby seals with brightly colored dyes, making their fur economically useless but also increasing the susceptibility of the seals to cold and to predators. Greenpeace also appears to work closely with other organizations that more openly boast of violence.

Formed by Greenpeace co-founder Paul Watson in the late 1970s, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has a history of taking militant action against whalers. In the early 1980s, Watson loaded his ship, the Sea Shepherd, with heavy concrete and rammed and sank several whaling ships off the coast of Portugal. Then, in September of 1987, a sabotage team from Watson's group used the cover of darkness to board and scuttle two whaling boats in the harbor of Iceland's capital, Reykjavik. That same night the saboteurs broke into a whaling station and destroyed its underground communications station.

The covert ties between Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd become more apparent from investigations following the destruction of the Icelandic communications station. The Sea Shepherd saboteurs could not have found their way around the station at night without having previously scouted it. This job was probably performed by a "journalist" who had previously visited the station, since she was the only outsider who had ever gained access to the facility; this "journalist" turns out to have been a member of Greenpeace.

Greenpeace also maintains unofficial ties to the violent sabotage organization Earth First!, a group of environmentalists who destroy equipment and endanger human lives. According to the July 1990 Organization Trends, published by the Capital Research Center, some of Greenpeace's events have been organized by one of Earth First!'s founders, Mike Roselle. Greenpeace employees have also gathered signatures for a 1986 petition circulated by Earth First!, and the September/October issue of Greenpeace encouraged readers to contribute to the legal defense of four Earth First! members arrested by the FBI for trying to cut electrical power lines.

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In the summer of 1994 Greenpeace showed that they were willing to destroy the whalers’ equipment in order to stop them. They boarded the whaling boat Senet and tried to remove the harpoon gun with tools they had brought with them. They told the media they were going to give it to a whaling museum. For the first time the activists were not served coffee, but were thrown overboard instead, life-jackets and all.

“We had to step in,” says Senet skipper Arvid Enghaugen. “we couldn’t stand by passively watching these campaigners destroy valuable equipment. They could easily have endangered lives; the harpoon gun was loaded. Later they cut the harpoon line to a dying whale.”The activists were determined that the whalers should not profit from the death of this whale”, stated the Greenpeace press release. Not only did they succeed in this, but they also managed to prolong the suffering of the whale.

Last summer Greenpeace frogmen stood on the dock in Tromsø preparing to go down to put a chain around the propeller on a whaling boat, but were prevented by the police.

In Ålo, Greenpeace activists were once again thrown into the water or back ashore when they forced their way on board 4 whaling boats at the dockside. The whalers hosed them with water and one of them hit the demonstrators with rubber hosing. “We couldn’t let them on board. We were afraid that they would destroy the meat in the hold or important equipment on board” the skipper of one of the boats, Oddvar Nilsen Husa tells the Harpoon. But the 30 Greenpeace demonstrators did not respect the whalers’ demand to stay ashore.

You stand on a thin sheet of ice when you claim that something has never happened, particularly in the history of an organization.