Go Danny Go!!!!

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Or check out the numbers of seals: NL-Outsidethebox [confederation]: Contrary to popular belief this is a seal

Danny Williams took on Paul McCartney and his wife over their mis-information about the seal hunt last night on CNN and it was great. Williams made them look very foolish. They made assertion after assertion and he knocked them all down. Ninety percent of the seals are killed with a bullet. The seals that the McCartneys are seen with are no longer killed.

Williams said if you go into any slaughterhouse and put white sheets on the floor, "then you're going to see blood. And that's not nice and that's not pleasant."

The truth is painful Paul but 5,000 fishermen are easier to take on than the beef industry or the poultry industry.

"There's a point where people who don't respect Newfoundlanders and Labradorians, and who don't treat us with respect, will get it back in spades from me," he said. "I certainly wasn't going to allow the McCartneys to dominate that interview.

"They target us because we're a smaller province and it's a smaller industry," the premier said after he emerged from a TV studio in St. John's. "They're not going to take on the beef industry. A seal pup makes a great photo op."

The thing that has always bothered me is that when the protest first began it was all about how the seals are killed. The practice has changed since the 1960's and 70's, as it had to be changed. Now the culling is done only for a short period and it is restricted to certain seals. The method has changed as they probably needed to but now McCartney asserts all the old lines from 30 -40 years ago and he has no basis in reality. The numbers of seals is high and the hunt is regulated. When they had success in stopping the method in the 1970's then it was all about the numbers. Now we have an increase in numbers and a restricted cull. So why are the McCartneys protesting?

Williams went on to say that the couple is being used by organizations like the IFAW, Greenpeace and PETA who raise hundreds of millions of dollars. He added that the FBI has terrorist files on these groups.

So really Paul McCartney supports Eco-terrorism! I suppose when you are a millionaire with too much time on your hands then you can protest whatever you want. Let me say I like the Beatles' music and Wings music but what right does he have to take money out of the pockets of Newfoundlanders. These guys and their families do not deserve this. I mean the cull is sterwardship!



CBC News: N.L. premier takes on ex-Beatle over seal hunt

Seal hunt supporters worry Beatle star power will have impact

Scotsman.com News - Latest News - McCartneys see red over seal culls

WWF Canada - Advocacy with Excellence

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