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Paul Watson Was The Upholder Of The Law
Aug 1st, 2024 at 7:18pm
 
It will shame Copenhagen': Bob Brown wants Queen Mary to intervene in anti-whaler's arrest
Bob Brown hopes Australian-born royalty can help secure the release of a prominent anti-whaling activist, currently detained in Greenland.
SBS News August 1 2024
Bob Brown (right) hopes to secure Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson's release by appealing to Tasmanian-born Queen Mary.

Former Greens leader Bob Brown has appealed to Tasmanian-born royalty, Queen Mary of Denmark, to step in and urge the release of anti-whaling campaigner Captain Paul Watson.

The founder of the Sea Shepherd marine conservation organisation was taken into custody by police last month when his ship docked in Danish-controlled Greenland's Nuuk harbour.   Sad

Watson was en route to intercept a newly built Japanese whaling ship in the North Pacific when he stopped to refuel and was arrested.





Brown has pleaded with the Danish queen to stand against "cruel" whaling practices and negotiate Watson's release despite "constitutional restraints on the monarchy".

"Watson's case will shame Copenhagen in the eyes of the world if it acts as the lickspittle of Tokyo whose cruel and bloody whaling in Antarctic waters ended in 2014," Brown said in a statement on Thursday.

"There is enormous respect for Her Majesty Queen Mary here in her native Tasmania and, at the same time, huge support for Watson, who was pivotal to getting the illegal Japanese whale killers out of our oceans."
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Captain Paul Watson, founder and president of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
Brown described the situation as "perverse,", saying the Danish government had made a "dreadful mistake" that would drag Denmark's reputation "through the mud".

"The Japanese have for more than a decade had an Interpol alert out for Paul Watson's arrest," he told SBS News.   Sad

"But reasonable countries like the United States and France have ignored that because they know that the Japanese whalers are the criminals — the International Court of Justice has found that — and Paul Watson was the upholder of the law."

It came as Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek condemned Japan's decision earlier this week to commercially hunt the world's second-largest whales in the country's economic zone.

"Australia is deeply disappointed by Japan's decision to expand its commercial whaling program by adding fin whales," she said on Thursday.


Why has Paul Watson been arrested?
Watson, who is also the co-founder of Greenpeace, was arrested on an international Interpol warrant on 21 July.

More than a dozen Danish police and SWAT team members boarded the John Paul DeJoria and handcuffed Watson before leading him off of the ship.

Watson could reportedly face up to 15 years in prison in Japan over charges including accomplice to assault and ship trespass.

The charges relate to the alleged boarding of a Japanese whaling ship in the Southern Ocean in February 2010, after protesters had clashed with whalers on their return home.

"What we have is the criminals capturing the green cop on the beat, the whale protector, to put him in jail because he stopped them making money out of the bloody business of harpooning whales south of Australia in the international whale sanctuary," Brown told SBS News.

Danish police officers arrest a man on a boat, docked in a harbour.
Sea Shepherd founder and anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson was arrested by Danish police on 21 July.
The 73-year-old is reportedly in "good spirits" and has "no regrets", French environmentalist activist Lamya Essemlali said after visiting him.

The Captain Paul Watson Foundation is known for using "aggressive non-violence" to protect whales and other marine life.

Watson will be held in Nuuk until 15 August. He was denied bail and deemed a flight risk, and it remains unclear whether Denmark will allow his extradition to Japan.

French President Emmanuel Macron's office has urged Danish authorities not to extradite Watson, who has lived in France for the past year after a local online petition garnered 670,000 signatures in eight days.

Brown also called on Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to intervene in the matter.
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Reply #1 - Aug 1st, 2024 at 7:21pm
 
Please Mr Albanese help this good man to be released.   Sad
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Reply #2 - Aug 1st, 2024 at 7:23pm
 
Why should we protect activists? Shocked
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Reply #3 - Aug 1st, 2024 at 7:23pm
 
The US is behind all these incidents. The US is causing harm to all dissidents.
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Please don't thank me. Effusive fawning and obeisance of disciples, mendicants, and foot-kissers embarrass me.
 
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Reply #4 - Aug 1st, 2024 at 7:25pm
 
And he is not even Australian. Wink
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Reply #5 - Aug 30th, 2024 at 12:41pm
 
Pressure builds for PM to help free Captain Paul Watson   Smiley
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The Prime Minister has been implored to use diplomatic channels in any way possible to help free Captain Paul Watson, in a letter signed by the Greens’ entire federal party room.

Captain Paul Watson was arrested in Greenland on 21 July 2024 on an extradition request from Japan. The basis of the extradition relates to events in 2010 when Captain Paul Watson was in the Southern Ocean, protecting whales from being slaughtered by the Japanese. 

At the time of the 2010 events the Australian Government proved to be a fierce ally for cetaceans through the International Whaling Commission and other diplomatic forums, and successfully instituted proceedings against Japan in the International Court of Justice. This resulted in Japan being ordered to stop whaling in the Southern Ocean and set the scene for Japan’s withdrawal from whaling in Antarctica in 2018.

Pressure is now building for the Australian Government to continue its advocacy for the protection of whales, and use its influence to secure the release of Captain Paul Watson.

Quotes attributable to Greens spokesperson for healthy oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson:

“Across the globe calls for the release of Captain Paul Watson grow louder – including from French President Emmanuel Macron – yet here in Australia our government remains notably silent.   Sad

“Australia fought for whales in 2010 in the International Court of Justice and we fight for whales today by ensuring their full protection in Australian waters – but more must now be done to uphold our legacy on the world stage.

“Captain Paul Watson is an ocean conservationist who has saved hundreds of whales, calling for his freedom should be uncontroversial.

“The pressure is on. The Greens implore the Prime Minister to use diplomatic channels in any way possible to help free Captain Paul Watson.”
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Reply #6 - Aug 30th, 2024 at 6:45pm
 
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Reply #7 - Aug 31st, 2024 at 11:57pm
 
lee wrote on Aug 1st, 2024 at 7:23pm:
Why should we protect activists? Shocked


Well, there are Just Causes - and then there are just causes.... just cause they wanna be noticed or something like Gaza supporters or trannies or Aboriginal Rights Activists seeking any foothold on the White Mountain... any kneehold on the White throat ...  this one is a Just Cause....
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