Animal rights groups fighting with themselves

I am going to jump in here once again and add my little piece of the Greenpeace/ Sea Sheperd Conservation Society fight. yes-Paul Watson is too much of a wing-nut for greenpeace. yes-Paul Watson likes the violence just a little too much. But what really burns Paul Watson's butt is that greenpeace does little or nothing for the seals and whales other then paying it some lip service. For that Greenpeace pulls in 10's of millions dollars a year. Sea Sheperd Conservation Society pulls in 2 and a half million.Yes-Greenpeace is not radical enough for Paul Watson, but much more then that is the fact that greenpeace makes more the 10 times the money for doing little or nothing. I am sure he is green with envy. In all the fighting the two animal rights groups are doing, they are not helping out any animals, just fighting over who is going to make the most money.

A letter from Greenpeace:
Dear (Name withheld), "Thank you for your e-mail and your interest in Greenpeace!Non violence is non negotiable. It is the cornerstone of Greenpeace's support and success for the last 37 years.Sea Shepherd has consistently threatened to ram ships at sea in the harshest ocean in the world - the Southern Ocean. Sea Shepherd has also targeted the crew of whaling fleets with missiles, including glass bottles filled with butyric acid. Neither act can be dismissed as just property damage. Both are a threat to human life and as such are completely unacceptable to Greenpeace.Greenpeace will continue to act to defend the whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, but will never attack or endanger the whalers.Thanks again for your support and we look forward to hearing from you in the future!"

For a Green and Peaceful Future,Sebastian Jannelli

From the sea shepherd web site:
Commentary by Paul Watson Founder and President of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
"It does not matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true."- Dr. Patrick Moore, President of Greenpeace Canada 1981Enough is enough. The Greenpeace fraud about saving the whales must be exposed. For years, I have been tolerating their pretense of action and watching them rake in tremendous profits from whaling.Greenpeace makes more money from anti-whaling than Norway and Iceland combined make from whaling. In both cases, the whales die and someone profits.I just received two urgent emotional appeals from Greenpeace to save the whales. The first was from Melanie Duchin and the second from Nathan Santray.Melanie, who describes herself as a Greenpeace ocean campaigner, wants money so she can go down to the Southern Oceans to save the whales. She says she will be fighting to help the whales escape and states that for every dollar you donate it will mean another hour, day, or week that Greenpeace can stay on the water "saving" whales.Their success according to Melanie will depend on YOU sending a donation NOW. She's right, of course. The Greenpeace campaign is not about looking for whaling ships. Success to Greenpeace is about recruiting memberships.What Melanie does not tell you is that Greenpeace has already raised tens of millions of dollars this year to "save" the whales, and tens of millions of dollars the year before, and the year before that.In fact, Greenpeace has raised a mind-boggling hundreds of millions of dollars pretending to save whales over the years and yet they have not stopped the Japanese from killing a single whale

.http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/editorial-080618-1.html

From the Greenpeace website:
Paul Watson is the founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and an early member of Greenpeace. Over the last few years, Paul has become extremely critical of Greenpeace in the press and at his website. The information below is provided as a service to our supporters to get a few facts out on the table about Paul's history with Greenpeace and the nature of our disagreements. Paul Watson became active with Greenpeace in 1971 as a member of our second expedition against nuclear weapons testing in Amchitka, and went on to participate in actions against whaling and the killing of harp seals. He was an influential early member but not, as he sometimes claims, a founder.He was expelled from the leadership of Greenpeace in 1977 by a vote of 11 to one (only Watson himself voted against it).in 1986, Sea Shepherd carried out an action against the Icelandic whaling station in Hvalfjoerdur and sank two Icelandic whaling vessels in Reykjavik harbor by opening their sea valves;
[1] in December 1992, Sea Shepherd sank the vessel Nybroena in port;
[2] Sea Shepherd claimed to have sank the Taiwanese drift net ship Jiang Hai in port in Taiwan and to have rammed and disabled four other Asian drift net ships;
[3] a Canadian court ordered Watson and his former ship, the Cleveland Armory, to pay a total of $35,000 for ramming a Cuban fishing vessel off the coast of Newfoundland in June 1993;
[4] in January 1994 the group severely damaged the whaling ship Senet in the Norwegian port of Gressvik.

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/paul-watson-sea-shepherd-and