These are not dignified times for Greenpeace, the world’s richest environmentalist organization.
First came Revenue Canada which denied the organization charity status, and worse concluded that Greenpeace "serves no public benefit" and that the activities of a Greenpeace foundation "could cause poverty".
Now that the unequivocal truth is in from a panel of leading physicians and scientists, proving millions of dollars worth of vinyl toys and other goods pulled from store shelves last Christmas pose no medical threat to children or adults, the credibility of Greenpeace has been thrown into serious question.
The panel, chaired by Dr. C. Everett Koop, the former U.S. surgeon-general, found no scientific evidence that plastic softeners known as phthalates can cause cancer, contrary to well-publicized claims by Greenpeace and other environment activist groups.
In successful scare mongering tactics, Greenpeace and other health and environmental groups have even instilled fear about the intravenous I.V. bags supplying life-supporting fluids into the bodies of the terminally ill.
Greenpeace plays with our lives. Their friends in the mainline media casually accept hype as fact, and Greenpeace, which even has its own cheque-making company, builds $20-million towers in Germany.
Starting out 25 years ago, as anti-establishment draft dodging hippies, Greenpeace activists may once have been naive and idealistic. Today they are millionaire slick business men. Very few women are represented in the Greenpeace boardroom. Yet, statistics show that retired professional women are the organization’s contribution mainstay.
The big question that begs to be asked is whether Greenpeace activists knew all along that plastic toys and I.V. tubing posed no medical threat to people. The court room could go a long way in flushing out the truth. Business leaders thrown into the headlines by Greenpeace should bring a class action suit on behalf of the innocent people hurt by the ongoing fear mongering and deception promoted by the environmental giant. The class action suit should be launched for all the little people around the globe who lost their jobs, their pride and the ability to raise their families as a direct result of Greenpeace.
Anti-corporation Greenpeace does not just hurt corporation heads with its agenda. The fallout is felt by many little people whose jobs are lost to layoffs when propaganda forces back profit margins.
Now the world knows that there was no scientific fact or truth in the Greenpeace raid against vinyl toys and other goods. Lesser known signs of Greenpeace deception comes from one of the group’s former founders, Dr. Patrick Moore.
"Greenpeace," says Moore, "likes to give the public the impression that aboriginal people are on their side and against forest companies.
"Yet, all four elected tribal council’s on B.C.’s Central Coast, the so-called Great Bear Rainforest, have signed a Protocol condemning Greenpeace and withdrawing Greenpeace’S right to use native crests, something we earned in earlier years.
"An open letter (Nov. 19/98) to Greenpeace,Sierra Club, FAN and Sierra Legal Defense Fund from the 12-member elected Heiltsuk Tribal Council states: "The subversive and manipulating tactics each of your organizations are carrying out within our community is unequivocally without honour" and "you must declare your intentions in our community and that must be in writing. Even then, it will be up to the Heiltsuk Tribal Council to decide if your presence will be allowed."
As Dr. Moore points out, "Needless to say, this letter was never reported in the media here (B.C.). It doesn’t fit the idea that environmentalists are the natural allies of the aboriginals."
"What these groups were doing is going into the coastal villages and dividing the communities by giving support to dissident minorities, some of whom are "hereditary chiefs" with no political power. Then Greenpeace uses these people on their web site to give the impression that the natives support them."
Deceit is deceit no matter how slickly it is portrayed.
Did Greenpeace use the plastic toy scare as a way to justify its existence and collect money from an unsuspecting public?
The international business community no longer has any excuse not to take millionaire Greenpeace activists to court. They owe the little people whose financial status does not allow them the same privilege.
Here in Toronto, Greenpeace maintains offices at 250 Dundas West. Former city of Toronto councillor Peter Tabuns is head honcho of Greenpeace Canada.
Successful litigation may be the only way to keep Greenpeace honest and responsible. Canadian business has a big stake in seeking justice for the little people losing their jobs to Greenpeace. The world’s largest environmentalist organization is, afterall, Canadian born.