Pirate for the Sea - Sea Shepherd film, Telluride Film Fest, Colorado

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By Matt Beaudin, editor
Daily Planet
Telluride, Colo.

“I have been honored to serve the whales, dolphins, seals — and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me. These beings have spoken to me, touched me, and I have been rewarded by friendship with many members of different species.




People think long and hard about injustice and suffering. They hold nature in their soft hands and think about it.

Very few, though, rip nature from those who would hurt it, ram their ships into poachers’ and jump into harbors to knife nets stringing dolphins.

Paul Watson is that man, and Director Ron Colby’s “Pirate for the Sea,” which premiers here this weekend, is his story.

“We make movies about comic book heroes, and here’s a real life hero staring us in the face,” Colby said. “I had a 20-year involvement with this guy — I just always thought his life was worth exploring and celebrating.”

The film spends years at sea with the captain and bears witness to the tragedy and comedy of mostly any-means-necessary environmentalism.


The film follows him as he supplies ships and does what Watson does, which is moral patrol the seas. It’s a look at roughneck enviromentalism, not the kind that appears on the backs of T-Shirts.

These type of tales — of the hard men and women who’ve taken environmental law into their calloused hands and cracked faces — have began to gain traction. Not only with audiences but with the big studios and film festivals.

“I’m delighted that Telluride has selected this,” Colby said. “It’s just mayhem out there right now. People are taking more and more fish.”

Watson operates without borders and restrictions, a beacon of intolerance.

full article
http://www.telluridenews.com/entertainment/x1181305745/-Pirate-for-the-Sea-looks-at-a-man-few-can-be

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1. I'm reminded of the Barry Goldwater quote:

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."

I'm a major fan of direct action, especially when the injustice being committed upon defenseless beings is being defended by human institutions. Hats off to Paul Watson and all the Deep Ecologists who do more than just talk.