Sea Shepherd - Pirates, or Defenders of the Sea?

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a non-profit, non-governmental, primarily maritime and self-proclaimed policing organization, that says it undertakes campaigns guided by the United Nations World Charter for Nature (1982) and other statutory laws protecting marine species and environments.
The society was founded by Paul Watson in 1977 after Watson, one of the three founders of Greenpeace, concluded that "bearing witness" to environmental damage was an inadequate response compared to actual enforcement of international laws, regulations, and treaties.

Sea Shepherd is more confrontational than Greenpeace. Watson has since referred to Greenpeace as "The Avon ladies of the environmental movement."

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So the question is, is Sea Shepherd a group of pirates, or protectors of the whales.

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