Taiji Interview aired in Rogers TV - Ontario

Attention Ontario and Hlobal viewers: My interview that will be Aired Only in Southern Ontario, Rogers TV, is available on my website here! It's about The Taiji Dolphin Slaughter and my Awareness Paintings. First TV showing is today at 1pm. Scheduled showings are on Channel 20 in South-Western Ontario: Wednesday, May 2nd  at 1pm, 9:30pm Thursday, May 3rd at 5pm Saturday, May 5th at 10am, 3:30pm. 9pm Sunday, May 6th at 10am, 6:30pm Twitter for Inside Angle @Inside_Angle To view interview go here: http://www.bobtimmons.org/rogerstvinterview.htm

Cove Guardian's Speak In Seattle

Over this past weekend I was able to attend a fantastic fundraiser!
The Sea Shepherd Seattle Chapter was launched and had a ton of amazing people who traveled from all over North America. I came from Toronto and was put up with many others at the West's Home. Rob Lorkiewicz came from Virginia Beach - Virginia, Tim Quick flew in from Philadelphia, and Tarah Millen, Ryan Hughes, Marley, Carissa, and Adrienne all drove over the border which had a story in itself.

The joke of the weekend and the night was about the "Canadians" that couldn't speak to the masses. This was because the truck load was stopped at the border and then searched. Within the search they found a Paul Watson book "Earth Force" which is about protecting the planet. Well the guard opened up the book randomly and found the words "Guerilla Tactics" and instantly claimed them to be terrorists. The story for them began at that moment when their rights were being removed and they weren't allowed to even call the Canadian Embassy. After having a criminal profile done they were finally released to head back to Canada. With much motivation to get over the border they decided to go over at a different location after getting proper requested information and dropping the "Earth Force" book into a church book drop-off box. They arrived at the new border crossing point and after more investigation and phone calls they were finally allowed over the border.

The night was incredible and below are individual speaker's talking to the full house.

A Canadian High School With Open Eyes To Captivity

On April 13th there was so much to see and absorb! The high school of Christ the King of Georgetown - Canada created this wonderful morning that my daughter and I had the previlege to be apart of amongst the energy. A few students watched the movie `The Cove`and decided they wanted to do something to help. They teamed up with a teacher and a year and a half later this event was created and Ric was honoured to come and be apart of it. It was from 9am to about noon and was non-stop energy being emitted by dozens of students to a handful of icons in the public locally and internationally! Below are a few videos that show a glimpse of the mornings events. The next blog will show the speech from Ric O`barry in more detail.

Ric O'Barry was a special guest to a school just northewest of Toronto called Christ the King in Georgetown - Ontario - Canada. This video shows an overall view of how amazing this morning event was and the energy it created. There was about 100 students listening to the words of Ric, a politician named Michael  Chong, a Canadian Author of Rekindling the Water - Leah Lemieux, a native indian and her song about water, and many student bands and public service announcements! It was an amazing moment for us all when specific words were shared.

 

Michael Chong was the only politician that accepted the invite to the event regarding the slaughtering of dolphins. He put out a great inspiring message to the 700 students to get involved in voting when they are of age and push the message they want. Government does what the people want so get involved in any party you choose! It was a great unbias message about taking care of the environment and especially the fresh water of the great lakes which is 1/5th of the planet's fresh water!

Ric O'Barry directs an answer from a student of Mast Academy of Miami - FL that was "What Can We Do?" Ric was excited that his home town of Miami asked this question and Ric informed them that they can help "RETIRE LOLITA" and stop supporting "CAPTIVITY".

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Behind The Barricades In Taiji



I was in Japan for about 9 full days to do work for the dolphins and within that time I was able to find some great locations to view into the cove. I have taken some photos from the video I was able to capture while in my second barricade jump. This second jump was an extremely close call when I was almost caught. The police were scouring the bushes and were all over where I was but I was not hidden very well and simply I should have been caught. However I was not seen and surprisingly I was staring right into the cops eyes while he was ready to walk right to me! At this moment I accepted that I was busted behind the barricade and just waited for the man to see me and start yelling. Then his phone rang at the same time I was looking at him! He started to talk on his phone really loud while I was still leaning back in the bush and waiting for him to have a glimpse of my figure. Then within moments he hung up his phone and walked away. Whew! I could not believe it! I was safe for the moment!

I then could hear a lot of them behind me talking to eachother. I had very thick brush behind me so they could not see me this way without walking back around where the other man was located. I thought if I was going to be stuck here behind the barricades then I must get some video film and I had both my cameras with me. I could not use my Camera video since its large and akward so luckily I had my hand held video camera with me and was able to lean forward as if I was touching my toes to aim the lens towards the cove action.

The video camera had an awesome zoom lens and I was able to get up close and personal at times. The only problem filming this horrific scene was keeping my feet awake and my stomach from cramping and my hand from shaking! Yes, my bent over position so I would not make any noise and be heard by the police I was really painful. My feet in time went to sleep and every few minutes forced me to lean back and wiggle my toes to get the blood circulation moving again. Then my stomach was aching from the crunch I put on it from the akward bend. The only thing that really pissed me off was my one main thumb that is needed to hold the camera still would just start to shake uncontrollably. I tried many things to get my hand steady and did my best to get as much video as possible.

As I was reaching and trying to find the best view to film I noticed a lone dolphin moving on the other side of the killing area. Then I watched a fisherman walk over and start to touch the dolphin. I thought he was going to just grab the rope on his tail and drag him over with his family. However this man put his body weight on the dolphin and I couldn't believe it but he was drowning the dolphin. Then he was dragging the lifeless body of this Risso Dolphin and had to walk around the boat that was splitting the killing zone in half. He dragged the dolphin through the blood pouring from under the tarp and then behind the tarp with his/her family that were currently watching their family die one by one.

After the dolphins had been all killed and tied to the side of the boat they make sure that a tarp is over the bodies so no cameras can photograph or film the bodies. This action shows they are embarassed and feel the shame by having to cover cove, the killing, and then the transport of the bodies. This moment the cove went silent, the voices behind me disappeared and the wait to leave began.

You cannot just jump up and walk out when you clearly were not allowed to be on this side of the fence even though the sign was just a warning of a cliff for safety reasons. I was told that others have been caught and removed but didn't know what happened to them. This was my second slaughter I witnessed in 3 days in Japan and my second time jumping the barricades with no fear whatsoever! As I waited the time dragged, the sun beat down on me and the nature sounds were beautiful. Then I heard some crackling! My mind was racing about a cop hiding near me and was just waiting it out to see who starts to move. The sound got louder and I started to look at that direction and seen this hat moving and as I looked further I knew who it was! I waved and she thought I was a cop and thought she was busted. It took a few moments when she realized who I was and I couldn't believe there were more people hidden up here too!

It was about 30 minutes since the slaughter ended and I decided to take the chance to see if the coast was clear! I slowly moved and took my time making my way to see the fence and the open field. I stopped and hide because a cop was walking up and looked around and then walked away. I waited about another 10 minutes and then made my move again. The coast was clear and I went back into the bush to gather my cameras and give the others the message to get out now. We all got out and met others at the bottom of the hill and took off in our cars. I was so hyper with a beating heart and excitement of being alive doing what I loved and that was being there for animals! Now I share with you all a bit of the video I managed to gather and pictures so you all can see what I experienced!

Below I have pictures of what I seen from my video and a video if you care to watch it but warning it does shake a little bit and could be hard to see.

After the Drive in of 6 Risso Dolphins the fishermen have already placed rope around their tails and staked them under the killing tarp within the cove.




They search for the tarp to block cameras from viewing their means of slaughtering the dolphins.




The Dolphins try and resist as much as they possibly can! They have been stressed for at least 2 hours now from the drive to this lasso on their tail staked to the ground of the cove.

BELOW IS WHERE YOU WILL WITNESS A DROWNING





A lone Risso Dolphin is off to the top left corner.




A fishermen walks over to the lone dolphin.




He starts to grab the dolphin.




He then is placing his weight down on the lone dolphin drowning him.




He then starts to drag the lone dolphin lifelessly over to the others currently being murdered.




The dolphin still has not moved to try and escape show no signs of life.




The fisherman dragging the lone dolphin goes waist deep into the blood filled water.




Sadly the lone dolphin still does not move and is now entering the blood filled water of his family.





The fisherman is now behind the tarp watching the other dolphin's being killed while still dragging the dead dolphin.




The dolphin is almost behind the tarp now to be with his/her family while they kill them.




All you can see now is the blood spilt of innocent sentient beings that were free migrating by Japan only hours before!



DOLPHINS BEING PREPARED FOR TRANSPORT



The main Killer is in the wet suit and is helping tie the dolphins to the boat.




The dolphin bodies are floating lifelessly while they try and cover their shame.




The tarp is being tied and the dolphins are all tied by their tails to the boat for dragging.




You can see the dolphins tied to the front while they try and keep the tarp over the bodies.




The bodies keep exposing themselves.





A Vegan Speciest?

Ever since I decided to follow my path to Japan I have heard so much about the word Speciest and/or Single Issue Campaigns. A person who is considered a "speciest-ist" is someone who takes one species over another while eating the other one. Now recently other vegan abolitionist are frowning down upon a vegan activist that does action for only one animal and calling their action "Speciest" and doesn't help the end to all suffering.

Now to start off I am living a vegan lifestyle and I am volunteering my time for action to help animals anywhere in the world. To state "I" as a vegan is a speciest for wanting to be there for dolphins is an outrage. The dolphins amongst all other animals deserves support and protection no matter where they are in the world. In this case they are in Japanese waters and this is where their lives end.

The movie "The Cove" in my eyes has woke up millions of people to see what is happening to dolphins in Japan. However I see this awakening go even further since I do organize protests and demonstrations on the streets and this year alone I have had over 40 new activists come to the events to support the dolphins. Some of these activists became vegetarians instantly while others are making the transition. Also a good portion of them are organizing their own events for animals and have found a new path and/or organizations to support. Now when people take that thought of feeling the pain and suffering of the dolphin and make a conscious choice to bring it to the streets then they are more susceptible to be open to more animal sufferings. Since I am the leader of my own events and I am living a vegan lifestyle I do speak about all animals and therefore these people are exposed and learn.

A movie like "The Cove" that speaks about ocean animals grabs the attention of people who admire those animals. This to me is a start down the right path and makes it easier as an activist for animals to bring more information to them to have them walk further down this path. We as vegans and animal activists need to open our arms up to anyone that wants to help and learn about the attrocities towards animals. To bash people especially ones that want to learn because they have not changed their diet yet is wrong in my opinion since they have made the step to "Ask". My path as a vegan is to co-mingle with meat eaters so they know what I do, what I eat, and why. If we just hung out with only people living a vegan lifestyle then how do we grow?

Another issue I have heard is that the producer of "The Cove" lives with a meat eating family. Honestly it would be great to have the whole family not eat any animals but at this moment I am more happy that he has affected millions internationally that exceeds the 2 he lives amongst. I love anyone that speaks for animals and does good deeds to help any of them from domesticated pets, strays, ferals, forest rehabilitation, etc however when I have a chance I speak about why I went further just to have it resonate within their mind. Awareness is an amazing action because most people just don't know!

So please accept more meat eaters into your life so they can be exposed to your living habits and talk about why you have changed instead of pointing fingers and throwing rocks at other positive actions. I want the vegan lifestyle to be everyone's choice and not one way is the best. I am all about diversity but what I am very strongly supportive to is "Positive Action" since it makes people want to listen and become apart of the action.

Stay positive its the only energy that the darkness cannot extinguish!

The next and final event I have coming up is January 8th in Hamilton at the 3rd floor of Bizclip on #327 King Street West with the band AdvertEyes and Vegan Food cooked by a chef. You can view more details here: FACEBOOK R.S.V.P.

Please contact your closest Japanese Embassy/Consulate and let them know you do not approve and want the dolphin slaughter to stop: Stop The Slaughter

Bob Timmons
Future Cove Guardian
http://www.bobtimmons.org/
http://thecoveguardian.blogspot.com/
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It was a couple of years ago that I first learned about Taiji Bay aka "The Cove" when I did a painting that I called "The Rising Sun Exposes The Guilt". Now I have an opportunity to do more and this is becoming a "Cove Guardian" with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in Taiji Bay, Japan.

 I have started to organize ways to raise some money and awareness about this decision I have made and you can donate and share on facebook,  , Paypal (timmons.animal.artist@gmail.com)