Sea Shepherd and animal rights and conservation

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I live in newfoundland.  I am a Sea Shepherd supporter, and animal rights activist, and environmentalist, conservationist (got a diploma to prove that) and I am a vegan. That being said… given where I live.. I am in a group that is an ever growing minority. We aren't terrorists, we aren't breaking laws nor are we unpatriotic. It Is difficult where I live, to be the way I am and given where I grew up and that I was in the Canadian Army for just over 6 years, needless to say it gets difficult total to make folks hear about what I stand up for. I live in a province that deems Sea Shepherd as eco terrorists.. let us for a moment straighten this out.. eco terrorists are oil companies, fracking companies, factory farms, fish farms, companies that support GMOs, whaling, exploiting oceans and their inhabitants, deforestation, the Palm oil industry, Fur farms (including leather), trophy "hunters", canned "hunters", people who beat another species over the head with any weapon or shot it point blank in the head (very much execution style) or shoot from a boat or a helicopter and kill that target species is an ecoterrorist. Forcing another species to perform tricks in a cement pool or in a circus ring is the result of having taken a few young whales out of their natural habitat and that forcing them to have babies too early in their lives and then taking these babies and shipping them off to other countries or just other places than exploit those species.
Call me a greenie, a hippie liberal, a tree hugger, or other lame words you think are insults.. what I'm not is a terrorist or an eco terrorist. I haven't hurt anyone, I haven't lied about what I believe in, and I may not be on the "front lines" stepping between someone who doesn't care about the life they are about to kill but I do support those who have been and are brave enough to stand on those ice pans being the human shield between another species life and the person who is pointing that weapon at the activist or the weaponless victims. I am what some might endearingly refer to as an armchair activist. I research information and use the internet to talk about animal rights, conservation and all those people who are trying to change laws to protect those species who can't defend themselves either in court or against an armed human.
Alll this being said..
I leave you with these artists artworks.

Sea Shepherd - Extinction by SaintIscariot Sea Shepherd by JessicaSansiquet<da:thumb id="172070138"/> Paul Watson and Sea Shepherds by Winter-Phantom Sea Shepherd in Germany by FreSch85 Pilot Whales by Zafiara Arrogants by Winter-Phantom Our Heros by tallblueangel<da:thumb id="277906571"/><da:thumb id="184260385"/>

                                                  Canadian Seal Slaughter by AkirasArtWorld


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thank you for doing you art. I agree with you.. the other  thing I realized years ago was how people, who don't seem to care what they are doing to harm the planet and in inhabitants, get angry towards us and blame it all on us.. somewhat the same mentality as a domestic abuser would hit their victim and then ask them… why do you make me hit you and then get further angry at you for fighting back. but the moment you have gotten the strength to shock them with standing up for yourself and you hurt them back, they cry  or shake or accuse you of being the bully.  that is when you have to walk away from them because they will never evolve in this lifetime. refocus our time and energy on the defenceless.