Sea Shepherd: Canadian Justice is a Wonderful Thing (slap on wrist for brutal seal killing)

[Barrett808]

In Canada if you take a picture of a seal being killed you are arrested, jailed and fined and the maximum penalty if convicted is up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine. In addition when we documented the seal slaughter last year, our ship Farley Mowat was seized and is still being held by the Canadian government without any charges against it. Two of our officers Alex Cornelissen and Peter Hammarstedt were released on $5,000 bail each for the "crime" of witnessing the killing of a seal. The actual charge was violating the "Seal Protection Regulations" which makes it illegal to witness or document the killing of a seal without a permit from the government.

This week a sealer was found guilty of inhumanely killing a seal. Ashley Gould, 27, of Anchor Point, Newfoundland was videotaped smashing baby seals with a shovel and throwing them on to the boat while still alive.

What did the "Seal Protection Act" have to say about that? Mr. Gould was found guilty of using unauthorized weapons. The punishment for bashing baby seals over the head with a shovel and throwing their living bodies onto the deck of a boat is a $2,000 fine and Mr. Gould will be suspended for the 1st day of the 2009 seal hunt.

A fine of $100,000 and up to a year in prison for taking a picture of a seal being killed and a $2,000 fine for bashing it over the head with a shovel.

They say that justice is blind. In Canada justice has her eyes wide shut and she's arrogantly moronic and very sick.

http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-090209-2.html

[flvegan]

1. On the topic of sealing, the Canadian government is inept.

[PDJane]

2. There are a lot of things on which our government

is inept. Right now, we have a slightly smarter version of bush...and I can't stand him. I sincerely hope it doesn't take long for the current liberals to wake up and get with it. It's a minority government, and the left can take it down.

[One_Life_To_Give]

3. IIRC there was a licenced group of videographers

IIRC there was a licenced group of videographers documenting the goings on with the Canadian seal hunt. Seashepherd and the Farley Mowat were denied entry into Canadian waters due to their history during previous years seal hunts.