Forget Captain Blood, and Black Jack and friends. Don't bother to read "Treasure Island" for your pirate type thrilling stories - just read your daily paper about the dirty doings in Southern seas.
Yes, you guessed. I'm talking about that Canadian Watson man who, with his merry band, is having glorious fun chasing Japanese whaling boats around the Antarctic!
I'm not "for" the whale slaughter campaign. I'm not sure most of the Japanese population is either since (so I'm told) relatively few of them like eating the meat these days, and I certainly don't believe they're finding any scientific break-through from the slaughter either.
But who gave the self-styled "Sea Shepherd Society" the right to risk lives and property in the open sea?
The old Greenpeace flagship "Rainbow Warrior" was wrong to create its own form of havoc in the ocean years ago, just as wrong as were the French commando types who sank the vessel in the port of Auckland in 1985.
Generations of tradition and "oceans" of international law apply to vessels in international waters.
We don't need environmental warriors at sea, and I'm sure the late Steve Irwin would be embarassed that his name graces "Captain Watson's" ratbag ship!
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