Sea Shepherd - Fighting Primitive Whale-Killing with Racist Help? Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit source - sisis@envirolink.org (S.I.S.I.S.) This organization claims that the Sea Shepherd organization, ever known to have uttered a racist word, or condoned a racist act, is suddenly being hoodwinked by a pro-apartheid racist. We doubt it. But if pro-apartheid racists oppose killing whales, anti-apartheid anti-racists can STILL oppose killing whales, too. It does not make them racists. In fact, the REAL racists are those who believe that ethnic identity and tribal survival depend on the ability to slaughter other species. Slaughtering whales and other forms of eco-cide are NOT progressive. These activities will never be progressive. NY Transfer News --------------------------------------------------------------- Here is the screed: ANTI-RACIST EMERGENCY ACTION NETWORK STATEMENT ON SEA SHEPHERD AND JACK METCALF Sea Shepherd is directly responsible for much of the racist anti-tribal upsurge that is now gripping the state of Washington. They have instigated this purposely using the excuse of the Makah whale hunt to justify their racist actions. The direct, undeniable proof of their intentions is found in their joining forces with the long time extreme rightwing racist and anti-tribal activist Jack Metcalf. Sea Shepherd has defended directly working with Metcalf and called him a "stellar leader" and one of their supporters called him "a great public servant". They did not at all try to deny any of the information we gave them on Metcalf. All they would say was that Metcalf supported their issue and that is all that is important. We have been informed by a lawyer who was an activist against the former Apartheid regime in South Africa, in Olympia, that when they lobbied the legislature "he, several times made staggeringly racist comments about Africans being genetically incapable of governing themselves, and made them in open committee hearings." Racism and fascism is part of the Metcalf family tradition. Jack's father was a Langley unit leader of the Silvershirt Legion in the 1930s. The Silver Shirts were a Nazi formation in the U.S. modeled after the fascist brown shirts of Germany and the black shirts of Italy. This is in line with the Sea Racists' alliance with Brigitte Bardot member of the fascist National Front in France. The following information comes from the files of the ANTI-RACIST EMERGENCY ACTION NETWORK. Rep. Jack Metcalf is known through out the state of Washington as the second most influential long time racist anti-tribal activist, next to the king of racism Sen. Slade Gorton, in this state. Jack Metcalf is one of the founders of S /SPAWN which later became the United Property Owners of Washington (UPOW). And Jack was on the UPOW Board until he left for congress. There is a great over lap of members and rhetoric between UPOW and the Washington Property Rights Network which is led by Jim Klauser who began, with other officials of the Builders Industry Association of Washington, the "Wise Use" Movement in this state. They also receive support from the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise. Also connected in this is the Citizens Equal Rights Alliance, a co-founder of the "Wise Use" Movement and is a national anti-treaty rights organization. UPOW has always used itself as a means for white property owners to fight tribal sovereignty and Native treaty rights. They have led the fight against tribal shell fishing rights, including a suit in which the Defenders of Property Rights (DoPR) is co-counsel. DoPR is an extremist right wing group whose board members include James Watt, Ed Meese, Robert Bork, Sen. Orrin Hatch and Sen Larry Craig, and is associated with the Heritage Foundation, the Alliance for America and other far right wing organizations. Rep. Jack Metcalf was also a National Co-Chair of Redeem Our Country, among the other Co-Chairs of that organization include anti-Semite Eustace Mullins and arch-segregationist John Rarick. The group's advisory board included Christian Identity advocates, a Spotlight columnist and members of the Posse-Comitatus. Rep. Jack Metcalf was elected to congress along with other right wing "Contract On America" Republicans like Linda Smith and Randy Tate. But Jack just maybe the worst of the bunch. The extreme right wing paper "The Spotlight" has had a number of write-ups on Jack, and one issue featured a photograph of him in the office of the Liberty Lobby which is the publisher of that paper. And Metcalf was a loyal support of Newt Gingrich and was ranked #3 in the NewtWatch "Top 20 Toadies". According to the League of Conservation Voters Jack has one of the worst environmental voting records in congress. They listed him as voting against the environment 85% of the time. And his voting record on human rights was even worse. The ACLU gave him a 0% rating. Just last year at a meeting held by the Sumas Chamber of Commerce, Metcalf complained about not being able to tell racist jokes. He said; "It's really tough these days to tell a joke or story. You use to be able to tell race jokes. You can't do that anymore." Sea Shepherd rather than acknowledging that they made a mistake in joining forces with a man like Metcalf, sought to praise him. The only reason Metcalf is willing to work with Sea Shepherd is that they are fighting the Makah Nation over a purposed whale hunt, and Metcalf is clearly one of them most anti-tribal people in congress. Were the issue U.S. corporations wanting to get back into whale hunting he would be on the other side of the issue. By joining forces with Metcalf, Sea Shepherd is telling all those who have been victimized by the "Contract On America", the poor, people of color, working people and real environmentalists, and all Native people who have been victimized by the right wing racist anti-tribal campaign, that their struggles are not important to Sea Shepherd. We believe differently. We believe that all these struggles are important and none of them should quietly sit back and allow a self-righteous organization like Sea Shepherd stab them in the back by joining forces with a man like Metcalf. It matters not how you feel about the issues of Sea Shepherd, or its past activities, nothing justifies their alliance with the extreme racist right wing. Clearly Paul Watson and Sea Shepherd should be viewed now as a part of the far rightwing racist movement. Watson's name should be place along side that of David Duke and others and given the same treatment. Those that give support to Watson and the Sea Racists should understand that they have crossed the line and now stand against the people and real environmentalism. We are calling on all people to e-mail their comments about what the Sea Racists have done directly to Sea Shepherd at: SeaShepherd@seashepherd.org. In Solidarity Arthur J. Miller coordinator ANTI-RACIST EMERGENCY ACTION NETWORK P.O. BOX 5464 TACOMA, WA 98416-0464 e-mail; bayou@blarg.net :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: S.I.S.I.S. Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty P.O. Box 8673, Victoria, "B.C." "Canada" V8X 3S2 EMAIL : WWW: http://kafka.uvic.ca/~vipirg/SISIS/SISmain.html SOVERNET-L is a news-only listserv concerned with indigenous sovereigntist struggles around the world. 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