Paul Watson
Paul Watson
Paul Franklin Watsonis a marine wildlife conservation and an environmental activist, who founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an anti-poaching and direct action group focused on marine conservation. He is a citizen of Canada and the United States...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth2 December 1950
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
kept miles running time
Every time we approached them, they ran. We kept them running for 4,000 miles and 15 days.
russian
Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English.
manipulate people
People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?
exposing government subvert truth wikileaks
I don't think that any government has a right to subvert the truth or to cover up the truth, and all I see WikiLeaks doing is exposing the truth.
greenpeace left since whale
I will not watch a whale die. I've not seen a whale die since I left Greenpeace in 1977.
oppose takes threatens wants
Japan is a bully nation that takes what it wants and threatens any who oppose it.
bestows describe heading liberation petty social subject
No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy.
abhorrent
I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness.
endangered extremism sanctuary targeting violation whale whales
To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme.
greenpeace
Greenpeace has a fast ship that could stop the whalers cold.
save war
It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves.
ships
Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on.
dutch
Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world.
bomb protest somebody threat
I was doing a talk show in Vancouver, and somebody called in a bomb threat to protest my violence, which I thought was pretty strange. We had to evacuate.