Maria Daines
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4/13/2006 8:58:35 PM
Letter from Captain Paul Watson
Hi all,
sadly it is the final hours for thousands and thousands of baby seals as they are bludgeoned for their pelts. Please read the important words of this compassionate man.
best wishes, from Maria xx
The Seven Deadly Sins of Sealers
The Seven Heavenly Virtues of Seal Defenders
Commentary by Captain Paul Watson
Now is it bihovely thyng to telle whiche been the sevene deedly synnes, this is to seyn, chiefaynes of synnes. Alle they renne in o lees, but in diverse manneres. Now been they cleped chieftaynes, for as muche as they been chief and spryng of alle othere synnes.
--Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Today is the eve of the great slaughter of the innocent.
Tomorrow is April 12th when the rapacious rifles of the Newfoundland sealers begin violently cracking and rumbling and disturbing the peace and serenity of the harp seal nurseries. Tomorrow Cocytus, the ninth circle of hell, will manifest itself upon the heaving ice floes off the grayish cold coast of Northern Newfoundland and Labrador.
From out of the ice-dusted mists will emerge the foreboding spectre of dark ships and men dressed in deathly black.
Tomorrow over two hundred thousand young and innocent seal pups will begin to die in horrific agonizing pain as lethal bullets tear with murderous savage fury through their small and fragile bodies, shredding organs and arteries, spewing their hot innocent blood into the frigid Labrador Sea and splattering it upon the pristine ice. Primitively vicious clubs will shatter soft tiny skulls as sealers dressed in black and besmeared with slimy blood, march arrogantly across the ice, kicking pups in the face, tearing the living skin off of small throbbing convulsing bodies and transforming the home of the ice lovers from Greenland into a dark, chaotic cesspool of evil.
This is a vicious and tedious battle – this epic struggle to end the horrific slaughter of seal pups in Eastern Canada. It is a classic struggle between evil and good. A person does not need to be religious to know that defending life from death is innately good and inflicting death and abject cruelty on such a massive scale and especially to defenseless young sentient beings is the very definition of evil.
So we must remember that it does not matter how difficult it is, it does not matter how long it takes, what is important is seal defenders must never surrender to the insidious dark forces of incarnate and baneful cruelty and malignant ecological destruction.
These shameless men who inflict such gross destruction upon the moving ice and the deceitful politicians and gullible people who blindly support them are biblically evil. They are homo arrogantus mimicking their own perception of God as they smash in skulls, slit open young bellies and violently penetrate creatures that have done them no harm.
These are men who kill not for food, not for survival, but for contemptuous vanity. They strip away life to artificially adorn human bodies with pelts that are far more beautiful in death than the living skin of the creatures wearing them.
They crusade against the laws of nature as they harness cold and sterile technology to destroy life efficiently, thoughtlessly, insensitively and ignorantly.
These are men, who in their greed have over fished the seas, looting the waters of life as they plunder the fishes from the deep to convert into lucre. Now they seek vengeance upon their chosen scapegoat – the innocent baby seals.
Their stubborn pride lies like a dark veil upon their eyes, preventing them from seeing the iniquitous consequences of their greed, their rage, and their lust for the blood of the innocent.
These are men who in their anger preach a harsh hatred of the compassionate and belittle the kindness of those who care for the lives of the seals.
Like ravenous demons conscripted by Lucifer these heartless men, these seal killers are never satisfied as they ravage the living bosom of the sea o
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