Whale Wars - Update

Alright!

Captain Paul Watson has left Germany, not bound for Costa Rica either!  Apparently it is not illegal to leave Germany while under bail.  Apparently it isn't even an offence to break out of prison in Germany.  Maybe, for once, a country has learnt from it's history and has realised that sometimes people are put away for political reasons, i.e. they are innocent of any crime save disagreeing with their government and its mandates and they have every right to do their best to break out of jail.  I hope so any way.

Anyway he has left Germany and looks like he's going to be back with his crew for the winter season of hunting illegal whalers and others who rob our planet and therefore us, of it's bounty.  All this means that he is now on Interpol's 'Red List'.  Apparently, Interpol doesn't actually have any powers to arrest someone.  Apparently being red listed by Interpol means that the country you are in, if it is an Interpol Member, is lawfully bound to tell the other member countries that you are there.  It is up to the police and law courts of the country itself to arrest you.

So if the police and law courts of the country you are in takes a good look at your case and go 'the people that have charged you are involved with illegal activities themselves, therefore their case is a load of hot air and we are not going to act on it', the countries that are jumping up and down and screaming for your arrest may as well go and sit on the naughty step, nobody is taking them seriously until they stop having fingers in dealings they should not have.

I have to admit that the best part of this whole series of events has been Captain Paul Watson's response to the news that he is now on the red list and I quote:

"Put me on the blue list, the red list, the black list and even the death list - just never on the I-don't-give-a-crap list!"

Could not have said it better myself!