You're talking about Captain Paul Watson.

This was one of the founding members of Greenpeace.

He left or was drummed out of greenpeace back in the 70's/80's when they changed their agenda more from "protecting endangered species" to "protecting their bottom line financially and maximising profits".

Japanese whaling ships routinely flout international laws governing ocean sanctuaries as well as various countries soverign economic/exclusion zones and which species they "harvest for science".

Paul Watson is a crusader, a man driven by his passions.

Whether you agree with his politics/methods or not, at very least you have to admire him in these days of b.s.-diplomacy and political compromise behind closed doors, for having the balls to get out where he and his crews can manifest a immediate change to the situation and follow thru' their convictions.

If you want the epitome of hippocracy and cowardice, check out greenpeace, who send out ships to the whaling areas just long enough to snap some tragic poster pictures that will ensure their incomes for another year before they burn a B-line for home.

In the case of this individual, Paul Watson, it's not so much a case of religion, its a case of a man singularly executing his convictions thru' to conclusion.

It is a contradiction proposition, sometimes in our life, we often need to hurt the other part for protect one part. How can we comment on the western's invasion to the poor countries in from 16 century to 19 century. For the money purpose, they can sacrifice the principle of religion and morality.
Maybe the way of the captain is not very legal, but compare with the savage ways of many people killed the marine organism, the way of captain is trifle.

Captain Paul Watson's a f-ing pirate. (The New Yorker had a good article on him a few years back)

Anyway, I'm with the Japanese on this one. Let the Japs hunt their whales. It's not illegal, and is part of their culture. They say whale meat tastes like bung hole, but who cares, as long they like it then whatever.

Captain Watson isn't a pirate? He didn't ram their ship? I see. Wait a second, aren't there laws against that? How would you define 'pirate'? Jack Sparrow? And the Japanese should have shot to kill. OK, that might be a bit harsh. Perhaps just a pressurized sperm canon next time, you know, for that whole bukake effect? That would surely hold em off. Unless of course Watson and his crew are a bunch of homos, in which case they'd be lining up for more. A boatload of gayers chasing a Japanese whaling ship for more bukake? I don't know.

Oh and the pacific islanders should be free to practice cannibalism. I figure if the poms can hunt the fox...

1. Try to draw a line around what is or isn't a religion... you can't.
Belief in the environment (that has given rise to our species and all the biology on earth) as something deep or "spiritual" is pretty hard to argue right?
i mean if we keep giving passes to things that should be clearly labeled as mythology...

like i said, impossible to draw a line here.

2. The methods of this Captain Watson are at least questionable, of course he is endangering the lives of the men/women on board both ships,
But:
too often the lives of other animals and other living things are valued as nothing, as if they are resources; this belief does not fit with the modern world... we do owe them respect, at least some...

these type of environmentalists simply view them with the same respect as other humans, which personally I feel makes pretty good moral sense...

and Yes, you can make a case for "traditional ways" but really where do you draw a line between the Japanese, and native Aleutians, or Canadians, or Peruvians, or Chinese, or whoever else? it's all just hunting... just with different tools...

And try telling me that the oceans are not overfished... or over-whaled...
have you looked at the population growth diagram of the last 500 or 1000 or 1000 years? there are 6 billion of us.
we beat nature a long time ago, and we are no longer a natural part of it, and it's time we realize that and act a lot more carefully.