Give them guns
Posted 20 January, 2008 in Diary, Politics
I love it when left-wingers turn on each other!
Protesters turn on each other in sea hunt for whalers
TWO anti-whaling groups harassing Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean turned on each other yesterday.
Sea Shepherd chief Paul Watson slammed Greenpeace for refusing to tell him where the Japanese whaling fleet is, even though the Greenpeace ship Esperanza is right on the tail of the whalers’ mothership.
Nearly a decade ago I was deployed on operations with the military in East Timor, which was effectively the first time I’d worked with NGOs, aid agencies and the UN. The distrust and competitive nature between the aid agencies really surprised me, as did the general disdain the aid workers seemed to have for the local population, as did the way the aid workers treated each other. I still don’t understand why they would volunteer for that work if they hated everyone associated with it and I still don’t really understand their motivation. I think for most of them it was a weird mixture of wanting to be the centre of attention while doing something important which would seem cool in left-wing circles and get their face on the news. Strangely, to me at least, the prime motivation didn’t appear to be a desire to help people less fortunate than themselves. That was just an added bonus which gave them a vehicle to fulfill their ambitions.
But that’s left-wingers for you.