ANTI-SEAL CULL ACTIVISTS DEACTIVATED

A group of anti-seal cull busybodies and journalists are apparently under de facto citizens' arrest in a Canadian hotel:

A team of activists in the region to document the hunt, along with a member of the European Parliament Carl Schlyter of Sweden, and several journalists were holed up in their hotel in the town of Blanc Sablon "under threat of physical violence," the group said in a statement.

"A growing mob estimated at nearly 60 people has gathered outside the hotel and is refusing to let the team leave," the US Humane Society said.

Earlier, a car with team members and four journalists headed to the local airport where helicopters had been chartered to fly over the sealers to film them was "run off the road into a ditch," the group said.

The vehicle was damaged but nobody was injured, they said.

Rebecca Aldworth of the US Humane Society seems to think local police should offer limousine service:

"They could get us out of here if they wanted to, but they're refusing to take us in their police vans."

Aldworth might as well stay in the hotel because the government has banned her from going anywhere near the sealers. Anyway, the anti-cull campaign is proving counterproductive in Canada:

Telegram reporter Barb Sweet says the media circus surrounding this year's hunt -- highlighted by Paul McCartney's Blubber Soul Tour of the ice floes last month -- has made Newfoundlanders so angry that even people who aren't "pro-hunt" are rallying behind the industry.

"Whatever their views are, for or against the hunt or in between, people are impassioned about all the misinformation that's been spread about Newfoundland," Sweet said yesterday.

In other words, the shame campaign led by Sir Paul and the Humane Society of the United States has not only failed to change the minds of Islanders about the seal hunt, but has made them more stubbornly entrenched than ever.

But then, the activists don't care about local sensibilities -- their approach is to demand the federal government step in and impose a solution on all the little people. It's a typically socialist, elitist view.

If the socialist, elitist, ant-cull crowd had any sense it would shut the fuck up but they don't, so they won't. Hell, I'm a very passive person but these lefty busybodies have given me a hankering to club a seal.