Capt. Paul Watson update on Sea Shepherds' "Operation Zero Tolerance" 8/30/2012
Hi everyone. I have been out of contact. The Japanese government allocated $30 million dollars to stop Sea Shepherd this year and part of this strategy is to target me indirectly through Costa Rica and directly through allegations based solely on false accusations provided from a deal they made with a former crewmember have brought this situation about. For those who say that I should submit myself to the Japanese courts I can only say that will not help the whales much and that is my priority – to lead the Sea Shepherd fleet of four ships and over 120 volunteers against the Japanese whaling fleet when Operation Zero Tolerance is launched in December.
We have the Japanese whalers on the ropes and we need to blockade them aggressively with the objective of preventing them from killing a single whale. Can we do it, especially while under financial and legal assaults by Japan? Yes, I think we can and the tougher the whalers hit us, the tougher we need to be. I have never been under an illusion that what we do is easy. The challenges are daunting and sometimes it feels like we are fighting the impossible mission. But we should never forget that we are winning. For the last two years especially we have cut the Japanese kill quotas to under 30%. Our mission this year is to reduce this to zero percent. I would like to thank all our supporters for the incredible help that I and Sea Shepherd have received during my time in Germany and over the past month that I have been preparing for my return to the field campaigns. We have four ships being prepared.
The Steve Irwin is returning from a successful campaign to Northwestern Australia to defend the nursing grounds of the Humpback whales. The Bob Barker is getting her generators overhauled in Sydney. The Brigitte Bardot will complete her anti shark-finning campaign in the South Pacific by the end of the month. And before the campaign begins, our new fast ship the Sam Simon will be unveiled. The Japanese whalers will not get the injunction from the U.S. Courts they are seeking to stop us. As the Japanese whalers toss up obstacles, we knock them down or find ways around them as we remain focused on the objective of returning to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary to defend the whales and returning to Taiji, Japan to defend the dolphins.
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