#grindstop Boycott #Denmark !! The Royal Danish Navy arrested 14 volunteers from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society on Saturday for trying to intervene in the slaughter of 33 pilot whales in the Faroe Islands, a protectorate of Denmark. Sea Shepherd’s anti-whaling campaign in the Faroes, dubbed “Operation GrindStop 2014,” deploys drones and live video feeds to document the slaughter while land- and sea-based volunteers attempt to drive the whales away from their would-be killers. (The Faroe Islands campaign is funded in part by the Skoll Foundation, part of the Jeff Skoll Group, which includes Participant Media, TakePart’s parent company.) The 14 volunteers have been released and their possessions returned, except for the data cards in their photography equipment. The land-based team of six are scheduled to appear in court on Monday, while the eight sea-based crew members will not have a hearing until Sept. 25. According to Sea Shepherd, the government wants to hold the vessels as evidence until then. One of the boats is a 40-foot Zodiac, the BS Sheen, donated by actor Charlie Sheen. “The Faroese whalers brutally slaughtered an entire pod of 33 pilot whales today,” Sheen said in a statement. “I am proud that a vessel bearing my name was there and did all it could to try to stop this atrocity.” Denmark, he added, “is complicit in the killing.” Watson noted that Denmark’s defense of the whalers violates its commitment as a European Union member to oppose whaling. “One good thing is that this gives us concrete evidence of the Danish navy and police supporting the grind,” said Watson. “The Faroes are not part of the EU, but they are a Danish protectorate. They get EU subsidies through Denmark. This now gives us a case to take to the European Parliament for a complaint.” http://news.yahoo.com/danish-police-arrest-sea-shepherd-team-trying-stop-020934624.html;_ylt=A0SO8zPOAQRUUggArK9XNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzOXFpbGQwBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA2dxMQR2dGlkA1ZJUDUwM18x