The posts promoting this blog through-out the net are not authorized.
I’ve been a member of CAUCE for more than a decade, a participating member of the Task Force On Spam and a supporter of the anti-spam movement in Canada.
I therefore condemn unsolicited advertisements and ask that the offending posts be deleted immediately.
Any post originating from outside Canada and on an internet provider other than Bell or Sympatico should also result in a complaint to the post’s author’s internet provider as fraudulent.
Some people state that trolling is as old as the Internet. Well, as I have mentioned on this blog, I had encountered trolling on bulletin board systems here in Ottawa, on Fidonet and on the Usenet.
BUT it is even older that that. Here’s a quote from a well known book :
“He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness”
This was later translated to “he is conceited and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions and constant friction between men of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain”
Can you guess where those quotes are from ?
The basic principals of trolling are found in one of the oldest books in recorded history, The Bible, in I Timothy 6:4-5.
There can now be no argument against the fact that the Farley Mowat, a ship operated by Sea Shepherd, was NOT in international waters.
The ship’s Captain Alexander Cornelissen and his first officer, Peter Hammarstedt, have been FOUND GUILTY and CONVICTED of the crimes they were accused of.
They willfully endangered lived by ignoring orders from the Canadian Coast Guard, who were forced to intercept the Farley Mowat on several occasions because they refused to keep a safe distance from the sealers.
They willfully harassed sealers and actually filmed themselves doing it. Why ? Because they wanted to play the hero !
This is my first year anniversary on WordPress and I thought I’d post some information in regards to what I expect to do in my second year.
Well, i’ve covered the sealing issue to my satisfaction here and will now focus on specific issues relating to Youtube.
The dispute at the WTO will probably come up from time to time but from the amount of hits the protest videos get, I’d say these are not reaching a large audience and are basically videos that “preach to the choir”, whose numbers haven’t grown since I started this blog.
Basically I was speaking to less than two dozen people and their puppet accounts for a year, many of which were getting quite frustrated with my ability to cut their emotional rhetoric to size. And most of the views these videos got were from people who repetitively visited the same video to post comments.
So unless a video relating to the seal hunt catches my eye, I will probably have little to no posts on it on this blog.
I want my second year on WordPress to be used to promote my favorite videos and channels, and possibly music, though the later might have it’s own blog on my personal web space instead.
I am weighing multiple options at the moment but I hope you’ll drop in and take a look.
The latest incident is further proof that the trolls value their cause more than the community guidelines and terms of service at Youtube.
They insist that every time an anti-sealing activist is suspended by Youtube for violations relating to the rules that it is not the violations that got them suspended but their opinions.
Youtube makes the decisions, not the person filing the complaints, yet they claim their opinions are being oppressed by unwarranted complaints.
Is it not possible for them to voice their opinions without violating the rules they agreed to comply to when they first signed onto Youtube ?
A few days back Facebook died on me just after I had written a long message because of a problem at my IP. This was right after I had gone a weekend without internet service because their modem died.
Guess what happened yesterday ? The modem screwed up as they were doing maintenance.
And today ? Yet another lengthy post was sucked into their hole of errors. Their previous Yahoo/Facebook “network timeout error” problem came back.
What the hell is going on ? In June the quality of service i’ve had with Bell Sympatico dropped significantly. And worse, the power cord on my replacement modem is screwy !
The anti-sealing activists are scoffing at sealers, claiming their traditions are violent, worthless and antiquated. They claim sealers are lazy, stupid, psychotic and demand that they be re-educated.
A few hundred years back someone had decided that the aboriginals of Canada and Australia were antiquated savages, with violent anti-social traditions that should be removed from their lives to make them fit in with more civilized people, who happen to be white.
The residential system was meant to re-educate the youth but instead it emptied out communities and tore people from their traditions, needlessly. It imposed numerous stereotypes, systemically, including this belief that aboriginals were lazy and prone to criminal behavior.
Are we not learning from history ? We should not be emptying out the fishing communities of Newfoundland because of the whims of arrogant foreigners, that do not know the realities of life in that province.
This may be one of the oddest statements from the anti-sealing activists I encounter on Youtube.
Commercial fishing is far from an easy task. It’s labour intensive and quite dangerous at times. And sealing on the ice flows can be as traitorous, the weather being significantly colder during this off-season activity.
Sealers get to scamper in the deep cold, in the middle of nowhere, and haul seal after seal into their ship. Yet the activists believe it takes so little effort that lazy people would be interested in this activity.
These claims prove that they are removed from reality.
I find it rather interesting that the anti-sealing activists on Youtube claim to believe the seal hunt is over because of the May 5th, 2009 vote at the European Union yet still post videos on the subject.
If they are so certain that the seal hunt is over, then why are they doing that ? Or harassing people on Youtube and Facebook for simply voicing their opinions ? Or re-posting videos from before the vote ? Or had attempted to Joe Job this blog ?
Even more interesting is the fact that PETA was so confident about the ban that they started their Canadian Maple Syrup Boycott twenty or so days after it was voted on !
On December 17th, 2007 IFAW had a press release issued in reference to the European Union commissioned EFSA report that had been released that month on the seal hunt.
What is interesting about this press release is that it is entitled “EFSA Report to European Commission Finds Canada’s Commercial Seal Hunt Inhumane” and starts off with this statement :
“The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) today released its report on the Animal Welfare Aspects of Seal Hunting, finding there is absolutely no scientific evidence to support the Canadian government’s claims that its commercial seal hunt is ‘humane’.”
The IFAW press release also stated that the EFSA scientists found that “sealers often do not comply with the Canadian regulations in relation to manually checking the skull or administering a blinking reflex test”.
I find these claims interesting because of the following conclusions found in the EFSA document :
“Many seals can be, and are, killed rapidly and effectively without causing avoidable pain, distress, fear and other forms of suffering, using a variety of methods that aim to destroy sensory brain functions.” (General Conclusion, Part 3, quoted in full)
“There is strong evidence that, in practice, effective killing does not always occur but the degree to which it does not happen has been difficult to assess, partly because of a lack of objective data and partly because of the genuine differences in interpretation of the
available data.” (General Conclusion, Part 4, quoted in full)
Even the summary of the opinion issued by the EFSA clearly states that the evidence against the seal hunt was insufficient, inconclusive and biased.
It is then logical to believe they did not conclude that the incidents of non-compliance to Canadian regulations by the sealers were so numerous as to use to word “often”. And in reality the report had stated that several independent groups had observed non-compliance “on many occasions” (Section 7.3, page 77), which was apparently not convenient for IFAW to use.
Then there’s the alleged condemnation of the Canadian hunt.
Well, if the report had concluded the Canadian hunt was inhumane, it would have been stipulated, specifically in the conclusions, and a ban would have been specifically recommended.
Not only are there no conclusions in regards to the inhumanity of the Canadian hunt, there are no recommendations for a ban. The report also does not include a conclusion that seal hunt are “inherently inhumane”.
Furthermore, Dorian Prince, the EU Ambassador to Canada, categorically denied that the proposed ban targeted Canada in a July 17th, 2008 televised interview on CTV and stated that he believed Canada and the EU could find a resolution if the legislation is passed.
So much for IFAW’s claims in regards to the EFSA Report.
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