What is Greenpeace Thinking?
Commentary by Captain Paul Watson The Greenpeace Foundation has been very irresponsible in distracting public attention away from the issue of international illegal whaling by focusing on internal corruption within the Japanese whaling industry. Of course there is corruption within the whaling industry – it’s a criminal organization. It would be surprising if there was no corruption. And why does Greenpeace think it is their duty to expose petty theft by whalers from their bosses? The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has been battling outlaw whaling operations in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary for years. The problem we are combating is simple. Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean is illegal and Sea Shepherd is an anti-poaching organization. The Japanese whaling industry is targeting endangered and threatened whale populations inside an internationally established whale sanctuary in violation of the regulations of the International Whaling Commission and the global moratorium on