Hardly Know-It

If you had him in your "alive or dead?" pool, here's your answer:

Canadian writer Farley Mowat posted bail yesterday to free anti-sealing activists arrested in Nova Scotia, saying the seizure of a ship named after him was a totalitarian act.

Mowat, 86, said he was honoured when the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society named their vessel the Farley Mowat, and was ashamed of the Canadian government when he saw it being towed under arrest into Sydney on the weekend.

"A gross miscarriage of justice has been perpetrated by Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn and any Canadian with any conscience would try to rectify it," the animal rights activist said in an interview from his home in Port Hope.

"I have some conscience -- not much -- and a little money -- not much -- so I'm putting both to use and I'm doing my best to rectify a wrong."

Paul Watson, president of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, took the $10,000 donated by Mowat and paid the bail to free two crew members jailed in Sydney. Capt. Alexander Cornelissen and first officer Peter Hammarstedt Cornelissen are due back in court May 1.

They named the ship after him, and he gave them $10,000.00. If I ever get a boat, I'm naming it after the Sultan of Brunei.

Damian P.

Posted by damian at April 15, 2008 08:37 AM