For the second time in less than a year, Greenpeace has been called out for exploiting an environmental charity façade, and more and more countries are seeing it for what it truly is, an international fundraising corporation.
First, Greenpeace was stripped of its charity status in New Zealand because the High Court deemed the global campaigning juggernaut overtly political after overwhelming evidence showed that its activities were clearly agenda-driven and politically motivated fundraising stunts.
Now, it has just been released that federal security services in Canada classified Greenpeace as a “multi-issue extremist” group. Greenpeace’s uncompromising and violent tendencies have become so radical that the Canadian government has determined it “pose[s] a threat to Canadians.”
Greenpeace Canada executive director Bruce Cox tried to defend the fundraisers by likening their actions to that of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
But when exactly did Mahatma Gandhi vandalize corporate offices, or when was it that Martin Luther King violated international maritime laws? Or when did either advocate dressing up as plush, Nemo-hunting sharks?
Gandhi and King led by example and dedicated their lives to overcoming social injustices. They did not manufacture crises, solicit people on the street to donate part of the pay checks, or waste millions of dollars so they could orchestrate outlandish and useless stunts. Greenpeace only dictates what it wants and bullies companies into submission. Not exactly the shining example of an international peacemaker.
Sorry Greenpeace, but the jig is up. And no one is falling for it anymore.