Maria Daines
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11/30/2006 7:44:49 PM
Sea Shepherd prepares to protect whales once more, news update
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Project Leviathan
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Preparations for Departure
To all Sea Shepherd Crew and loyal supporters.
I just want to encourage all of you to be positive, strong and supportive as we struggle to move two ships, a helicopter and two different crews into position to tackle the greatest whale killing monsters on this planet.
Success is taking each obstacle and dealing with it and moving on to the next one. Success is never surrendering and always keeping an eye on the target, never wavering, never flinching, never being discouraged or distracted.
We have international bureaucrats and politicians working against us, from South Africa to Canada, from Australia to Japan, from Antigua to Norway. We have other supposendly allied organizations undermining us. We even have the Japanese Yakuza supporting the whalers. We have technical problems to overcome, not to mention we are 1.1 million dollars in debt and that we have barely enough funds to cover the fuel for this most ambitious, most dangerous and most expensive expedition we have ever undertaken.
But am I stressed out? No. I know we will do the very best we can with the resources we have to defend and protect as many whales as we possibly can from the horrendous thundering hellpoons of the damned imperial Japanese pirate whaling fleet.
We have the time to do this campaign right. The hurdles are awesome and we don't have the money that Greenpeace, IFAW and others have. But we have something better, and that is a steadfast determination to stop thsse whale killers. We have a band of sixty men and women from over a dozen nations united in determination to make a difference and driven by an iron will to save lives.
We don't have expensive direct mail programs or paid television advertising to solicit funds for support. But we do have a 12 year old Australian boy who walked the beach with a can and delivered over $250 last sunday. If only we had a thousand more like him.
We have hurdles to overcome with moving both ships into position but WE WILL get both these ships down to the Southern Ocean and this year and WE WILL confront those lethal obscene exploding harpoons and electric lances.
If need be we will return to New Zealand to refuel. We will not fail this year because we have invested to much money, gone heavily into debt and invested to much energy to fail. Most importantly we cannot and must not fail because our clients are depending on us.
Our clients are the defenseless Piked, Fin and Humpback whales these vicious whale molesting thugs are stalking and killing.
We don't sail into the path of lethal harpoons and giant steel ships through kidney jarring hellish seas and the gut wrenching storms of the Roaring Forties, the Furious Fifties and the Sea Sickening Sixties because we want to hang some silly little protest banners before laughing sadistic whale serial killers. We don't go down to the Southern Oceans to be polite, to be proper and to be politically correct.
We go down there as Samurai. The word means To Serve and we serve the cause of the whales and their right to life and freedom from lethal molestation. We serve in the spirit of Miyamoto Musashi, Japan's greatest hero and philosopher who truly understood what the word meant, unlike these greed merchants who now run the nation of Japan like some brutal feudalistic corporation devoid of compassion and respect for nature.
The only hope these whales have is us. They won't be saved by the passive chit chat of posturing politicians. They won't be saved by the snuff flick producing ocean posers. They won't be saved by all those direct-mail-species-of-the-month-club-feel-good-organizations with their petitions and admonishments to us that we are extremists because we seek to stop such wholesale cruelty and slaughter.
In my heart there burns an emotional extremism ideed, and it boils like quaking magm
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