When I was in Norway serving aboard a vessel, Greenpeace made it very hostile for us. They started this "No Nukes Here!" campaign and picketed us at the pier we docked at. First off, we were not a nuclear vessel and we did not carry nuke weapons all the time--probably very little if at all.
They had these boats that surrounded us in the harbor and they just watched us. Do these people have ANYTHING else to do than float in water giving us hostile stares sunup to sunset? But then we cast off to leave--you would think it was what they wanted--but THEN they try to board us! We had to have teams of guys with charged up fire hoses to spray at them to keep them from boarding the ship. One guy even got onto the anchor before the sprayed him off and into the water.
What were they trying to do?? If they got onboard, they'd have been arrested, if they resisted they would have been shot. We were one, little ship in their harbor at their govt's invitation and you'd have thought we had opened fire on their town or something. They were very nasty people.
Unfortunately, Greenpeace has a lot of influence in Scandinavia. What they are doing amounts to a form of terrorism. But, as I said, they and their supporters believe wholeheartedly in their cause and believe that anything they do in the name of that cause is just--which is exactly how all terrorists think.
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