[TheDon]

The federal government has never successfully prosecuted an entire activist organization on criminal charges over its protest methods -- not Operation Rescue, not the NAACP, not even the Ku Klux Klan.

I'm sure that's news to these organizations!

[Lancey Howard]

HERE is what Greenpeace is:

Gerard Jackson
Melbourne: Australia
BrookesNews.Com
Thursday 20 March 2003


Much as Greenpeace has tried to cover up, with the help of sympathetic journalists, its Soviet links, it is a matter of public record that during the 1980s the Soviets helped Greenpeace raise funds in return for which it helped the Soviets plan propaganda campaigns.

During the 80s the Soviets helped Greenpeace raise funds, while the environmentalist group helps formulate Soviet propaganda. It appears, however, that cooperation did not stop with just aiding the Soviet propaganda onslaught against the West.

Greenpeace made Fernando Pereira it official photographer. But Pereira had been and important member of the Stasi-backed Baader-Meinhof gang, a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group. The Dutch Communist Party later made him editor of its paper Der Waarheld. Eventually he was arrest by Dutch intelligence as a Soviet agent.

(The view that Greenpeace is evidently not bothered by certain brands of terrorism was given additional weight when it not only supported the eco-terrorist group Earth First but its cofounder Michael Roselle payroll).

Pereira was brought to Greenpeace by the World Peace Council, another Soviet front whose chairman, Chandra Romesh, was a Soviet agent.

So what was Greenpeace doing hiring a Soviet agent who had been an active member of a terrorist organisation? Well, do not bother asking, because Greenpeace ain't saying. But in case anyone thinks an innocent Greenpeace had been taken for a ride by cunning Soviet agents I should direct to attention to those KGB dregs that Greenpeace is still knowingly collaborating with.

William Arkin is the director of the Nuclear Information unit at Greenpeace. He was also a member of the Marxist-Leninist Washington-based IPS (Institute of Policy Studies). The IPS is notorious for having supported every communist regime that ever existed, including every leftwing terrorist organisation I can think of. It was so brazen in its support of the Soviets it even allowed KGB operatives to work in its Washington Office.

Brian Crozier (a highly respected commentator on intelligence matters and a fellow of the prestigious Institute for the Study of Conflict) summed up the real role of the IPS when he wrote:

"The IPS is the perfect intellectual front for Soviet activities which would be resisted if they were too originate openly from the KGB."

Another Greenpeace collaborator is the National Lawyers Guild. This Marxist-Leninist front for the Soviets was set up in 1936 by a caucus of the American Communist Party (CPUSA) which was helped at the time by the International Labor Defence, which in turn was an agency of the Comintern (Communist International).

Greenpeace is also in bed with the CCR (Centre for Constitutional Rights) which was co-founded by pro-Soviet lawyers William Kuntsler and Arthur Kinoy. This pair never saw a communist totalitarian state they did not like. Michael Ratner is the organisation's current president and a notorious fellow traveller who blames the US — you guessed it — for terrorism.

The Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy is another longstanding friend of the water melons (green on the outside, red on the inside) that run Greenpeace. The IPS was instrumental in setting up SANE to oppose resistance to Soviet aggression. To make this organisation's pro-Soviet activities more effective Greenpeace helped it build a computer network to coordinate its anti-American activities.

[Viking2002]

A little breeze to clear up the fog:

Boarding any vessel without invitation is NOT Constitutionally-guaranteed free speech, and if the crew throws you back into the water, be thankful that the ship's captain didn't decide it was terrorism or attempted piracy and put a bullet between your beady eyes, as is his perogative.

Does that clear the air?

[sport]

Good! They should put everyone of the bastards in prison instead of jail.

[RJL]

Every other article I have read about this incident mentions that Greenpeace was wrong in their belief that Amazon mahogany was being illegally shipped on this ship.

Interesting that AP fails to mention that here.

[Lancey Howard]

(This subject was discussed at length on a thread back in November)

From that thread:

"When the press gets upset about RICO being applied to pro-life protestors, I'll get upset about this law being applied to Greenpeace."

72 posted on 11/04/2003 5:45:29 PM EST by Question_Assumptions

[Lancey Howard]

Here is a link to the November thread which discussed this case:

Did Ashcroft go too far in Greenpeace indictment?

[jaz.357]

Hangin's too good fer 'em Sheriff!

[jaz.357]

...Jes tie 'em to a hoss 'n DRAGEM!

[Paleo Conservative]

It just goes to show that it is usually not necessary to pass a new law everytime a situation that politicians have never seen before happens. What we really need to do is enforce the laws that are already on the books first.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Environmentalists call the charges a heavy-handed attempt to stifle free speech

Gee, now maybe you know how abortion protestors felt being charged as racketeers under RICO.

[Tulsa Brian]

Here's hoping the gov't. does something about these piratical socialist s.o.b.'s...Goodness knows it's long overdue.

[Condor51]

Mmm, Mahogany Filled Cake...