Captain Paul Watson

About me:

Captain Nemo: I am not what is called a civilized man, Professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore, I do not obey its laws. - Captain Nemo.

This is my personal page. It is not a Sea Shepherd page. There are official Sea Shepherd MySpace and Facebook pages and of course the Sea Shepherd website at www.Seashepherd.org.

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WHY AM I SHUTTING DOWN MY MYSPACE PAGE?

I am upon the threshold of departure for Operation Waltzing Matilda. For the next four months I will be in command of a Sea Shepherd fleet that will tackle the illegal operations of the Japanese whaling fleet. It is a difficult, dangerous mission and I cannot afford the distractions of petty human dramas.

I am placing this MySpace page in a state of limbo. Please do not send any messages. Neither Mia nor I will be here to answer them. For all of you who have been loyal in your support, we thank you and please understand that we are grateful for your support.

For those people who have interfered in our personal lives, all I can say is that they should all be ashamed of themselves. To call themselves “supporters” is hypocritical and absurd. They are not supporters and never have been. They are simply a small minority of people with serious sociopathic issues. Cyber bullies I hear is the word for what they are. They strike like craven assassins from behind the cloak of anonymity using cowardly pseudonyms like Pirate gal or Aqua girl or Dark Dolphin, Brat, Vegan Avenger etc and numerous other ridiculous monikers. Some of them infiltrate with false declarations of support and friendship. Others spend their time in composing blogs of vile verbiage or photo shopping images like abandoned immature children left alone with a package of indelible coloured markers.

I have often asked myself the question; why? What would motivate such bile and horrific histrionics and the only answer that I can arrive at is that these people are simply disgruntled, bitter, failures and losers.

Why else would they spend their time in constant harassment and vicious verbal vandalism?

Personally the hateful ramblings of rabid hominids lost in the wasteland of their own anxieties has no effect upon me. Their words rattle upon the pages like worthless broken crockery providing no constructive use at all, words simply to be ignored and forgotten like the ignorant trolls who utter them.

But not all those who are close to me have the advantage of the armour that I have collected over the years that makes me immune to such cowardly attacks. When these blithering banshees of banality, hatred and contempt turn their ugly rhetoric upon those I love, it is then that I reach my level of tolerance.

Over the last two years I had built up a list of close to 10,000 “friends” on MySpace. I’ve come to the realization that a person does not need 10,000 friends. And in a crowd that large lurks the creeping shadows of hateful and jealous people. And I have come to see that even those I thought were trustworthy were not always what they appeared to be.

I have also realized that as a Captain of a ship, that it is unwise to become overly familiar with the crew. Familiarity breeds contempt and I have found that those who sometimes laud me for my achievements turn sour when they realize that I am not a legend but merely a human being.

For this reason I made the decision to delete all 10,000 names. There is an official Sea Shepherd MySpace page to provide information on what we do. My personal page was just that – my personal page and if I chose to write poetry or post messages of affection to someone I love – that is no one’s business but my own.

When I am in love, I love intensely. I love my daughter Lani, and I love my darling Mia. I love my family, my brothers and sisters. I respect and stand by my crew and my staff and I am grateful to my true supporters. I stand in support with unquestioned loyalty to my few close friends.

And as such I will not abide any disrespect for those I love. I also do not wish to abide any interference by anyone concerning my relationship with Mia. She is the most honest, vibrant and beautiful person that I know and I cherish her immensely and trust her completely and more importantly I love her beyond all measure.

And for those despicable individuals that have taken it upon their meddling selves to disparage and condemn her, I have nothing but absolute contempt. They should be ashamed for their base vulgarity.

And for all of the holier than thou competitive purists who tarnish the reputation of veganism, let me say that their hysterical pontificating as Veggie Jesuit proselytizers will win few converts. I have done more to promote vegetarianism and veganism than most of them, and that is a fact, but I do so motivated by my concerns for environmentalism and conservationism and not animal rights. We are the only major conservation organization in the world to address the issue of diet in relationship to the destruction of diversity. Our ships are run as vegan vessels but I do not demand that people submit to being vegans to crew or support us. I provide an alternative and allow for people to make their own choices. To condemn someone for what they eat is no different than condemning them for driving a car, using a computer or flying in a plane and all our critics are guilty of those activities. Even the eating of vegetables has its price in the mass killing of millions of animals from herbicides, pesticides, land expropriated for crops and water usage. It is the destruction and imminent collapse of the biosphere that is imperative to me – not the concerns of those who cry for the welfare of domestic animals while being blind to the obliteration of tens of thousands of endangered species.

If you have a birth certificate – you’re guilty of contributing to the destruction of bio-diversity. I am guilty and you are guilty so for those of you perched on the moral pedestal of your own design, you are nothing more than self delusional paranoids with pretentions of moral superiority.

We are embarking on a perilous voyage, the likes for which our critics have no comprehension. It is a voyage that will save the lives of hundreds of whales from the illegal activities of the Japanese whaling fleets. It will be our actions that save these whales as we have saved so many thousands before.

Those armchair quarterbacks with their slimy fingers on the computer keys who condemn us need only look into the mirror to see the real enemy – the face of apathy compensated by useless rhetoric disguised as “activism.”

Activism is placing your life and freedom on the line not typing hateful messages. Activism is having compassion for the feelings of others, not vicious condemnations spewed from the lips of losers who wallow in the company of each other’s misery and perversity.

Down there in the Southern Ocean where I soon will be, there is a paradise free of the parasites that pollute the planet with their trivialities and petty hatred. It is a paradise sullied only by the merciless thunder of the harpoon cannons and it is to silencing those cannons that I and my crew will address our energies. No more will I defend our actions before the demands of the soul vampires of cyberspace.

In closing, I have composed the following poem:

ENDING THIS MY SPACE GAME

Into the nooks and crannies of every enterprise doth creep the human stain,

And cyberspace is not immune to the hominid parasitical emotional drain.

Like craven worms they creep into the lives of others with intent to cause stress and pain,

Losers in real time, scurry onto the internet to wage their cowardly campaign,

For those who have the time to sow hate, have long ago missed the train.

And now all they can do is vent and sling anonymous hate and complain.

Their souls are riddled with malignant cancer which makes them simply quite insane,

No use to parley with them, to rationalize, educate, or explain.

They seethe with jealousy, crippled by desires they could never hope to attain,

Arrogant in personality, bereft of dignity and shackled by an inferior brain.

Obsessed and fevered with irrational anger with personalities most mundane,

They daily strike a chorus of contempt, fueled by lies for their misery to sustain,

Blogger whores on the prowl, pathetic little lonely trolls, irrelevant, silly, and inane.

Whining about inanities, divine little legends focused on the mediocrity they maintain.

Thanks to the cyber highway, these losers get to drive their agendas into the fast lane

And there they recklessly boast, bluster, strut, and boorishly whine over and over again.

My Ladye and I sit back amused for if nothing else they certainly do entertain.

Chasing every silly rumour, fabricating lies, so their weird fantasies they can retain.

Horrid hellish harridans harassing honest heroes whose blood they wish to drain,

Their hatred is so intense that they cackle and wish that our efforts be crippled and slain,

Their rhetoric makes it very, very plain that, their intent is to inflict emotional pain,

Like vampires they suck the life energy from every exposed vein,

They make it their business to demand that we answer to them and explain,

Yet they are nothing more than arrogant trolls, ugly, angry and vain,

Who have done so little themselves to alleviate nature’s dying pain.

And thus I’ve decided that from these pages I must withdraw and abstain,

And thus I shall refrain from further verbal dancing with the morally insane.

With respect and love - Mahalo

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Mia whose love and guidance I cherish above all else. Her compassion for animals and her passion for life have endeared me to her and I love her with all my heart and soul.

Remembering Little Sam

Brave Little Sam

Such a brave little Koala was little Sam,

Looking as cute and innocent as a little lamb,

Poor little thing suffered so in the fire.

So brave, so cute, so much to admire.

OPERATION WALTZING MATILDA

Operation Waltzing Matilda will depart with the Steve Irwin and the Ady Gil from Fremantle in Western Australia on December 7th, 2009.

The campaign will last from three to four months. The objective is to sink the Japanese whaling fleet economically, to bankrupt them and to save as many whales as we pssibly can from the illegal whaling activities in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

The Galapagos

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has renewed our agreement with the Ecuadorian government to work in cooperation with the Galapagos National Park rangers and the Ecuadorian Federla Environmental Police to continue our work of the last ten years to oppose poaching by shark-finners and illegal fishing activities.