I have actually never paid that much attention to Sea Shepherd. But, upon reading your comments, I decided to look around.

I found this:
http://www.highnorth.no/Library/Movements/Sea_Shepherd/se-sh-re.htm
The article chronicles people being harmed by the orginization.

Now, this compilation may be accurate or inaccurate.

Some of his quotes make it seem more likely to be accurate, as do quotes by others.

As Paul Watson states in his book, Sea Shepherd: My Fight for Whales and Seals, “To remain nonviolent totally is to allow the perpetuation of violence against people, animals, and the environment. The Catch-22 of it-the damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don’t dilemma-is that, if we eschew violence for ourselves, we often thereby tacitly allow violence for others, who are then free to settle issues violently until they are resisted, necessarily with violence.”

Scott Trimmingham, president of Sea Shepherd quits in protest. “We had rules about not hurting anyone, about not using weapons. I left because those rules and that philosophy seems to be changing,” he said to “Outside” magazine (Sept. 1991).

Books written in support of him, such as Earth Warrior, admit to ramming ships. While fatalities may not be involved, I am sure someone has been hurt at least once. But, again, I could be wrong.

Other quotes by Paul Watson seem… equally prepared to do violence:

“There are 30-million plus species on this planet. They’re all earthlings. They’re all equal. Some are more “equal” than others, I admit: earthworms are far more valuable than people.”
- Paul Watson “Animal Rights 2002” convention, 6/30/02

“There’s nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write the history.”
- Sierra Club board member Paul Watson, at the Animal Rights 2002 convention,

“The fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it’s for what we believe in.”
- Paul Watson, at the Animal Rights 2002 convention,

“We should never feel like we’re going too far in breaking the law, because whatever laws you break to liberate animals or to protect the environment are very insignificant.”
- Paul Watson, at the Animal Rights 2002 convention

But just because I found these quotes does not mean that Watson ever hurt anyone. Maybe he has. Maybe he has not. But he has said he will not be pre-occupied by the chance of killing someone, and he feels that any violence done to protect animals is fine, even at the espense of human life.

And that’s a fine view. But it’s pretty hard to take that view and fit with:

To state the obvious to the ignorant, people who take action to protect endangered species of whales are generally the types who do not support killing people.

I’m sure they won’t start pointing guns at people and shooting them when they refused to go along with their utopian schemes.

- Josh

I have actually never paid that much attention to Sea Shepherd. But, upon reading your comments, I decided to look around.

I found this:
http://www.highnorth.no/Library/Movements/Sea_Shepherd/se-sh-re.htm
The article chronicles people being harmed by the orginization.

Now, this compilation may be accurate or inaccurate.

Some of his quotes make it seem more likely to be accurate, as do quotes by others.

As Paul Watson states in his book, Sea Shepherd: My Fight for Whales and Seals, “To remain nonviolent totally is to allow the perpetuation of violence against people, animals, and the environment. The Catch-22 of it—the damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don’t dilemma—is that, if we eschew violence for ourselves, we often thereby tacitly allow violence for others, who are then free to settle issues violently until they are resisted, necessarily with violence.”

Scott Trimmingham, president of Sea Shepherd quits in protest. “We had rules about not hurting anyone, about not using weapons. I left because those rules and that philosophy seems to be changing,” he said to “Outside” magazine (Sept. 1991).

Books written in support of him, such as Earth Warrior, admit to ramming ships. While fatalities may not be involved, I am sure someone has been hurt at least once. But, again, I could be wrong.

Other quotes by Paul Watson seem… equally prepared to do violence:

“There are 30-million plus species on this planet. They’re all earthlings. They’re all equal. Some are more “equal” than others, I admit: earthworms are far more valuable than people.”
— Paul Watson “Animal Rights 2002” convention, 6/30/02

“There’s nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write the history.”
— Sierra Club board member Paul Watson, at the Animal Rights 2002 convention,

“The fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it’s for what we believe in.”
— Paul Watson, at the Animal Rights 2002 convention,

“We should never feel like we’re going too far in breaking the law, because whatever laws you break to liberate animals or to protect the environment are very insignificant.”
— Paul Watson, at the Animal Rights 2002 convention

But just because I found these quotes does not mean that Watson ever hurt anyone. Maybe he has. Maybe he has not. But he has said he will not be pre-occupied by the chance of killing someone, and he feels that any violence done to protect animals is fine, even at the espense of human life.

And that’s a fine view. But it’s pretty hard to take that view and fit with:

To state the obvious to the ignorant, people who take action to protect endangered species of whales are generally the types who do not support killing people.

“But how will we survive?”

“You wanted to live with nature? Now’s your chance. If you change your mind, civilization is about 100 miles through the jungle that way.”