by David Andrew Price

About the author: David Andrew Price is a writer and an attorney with the Washington Legal Foundation, an organization that seeks to shape public policy and defend free enterprise and individual rights.

One morning in January 1994, Arvid Enghaugen, a resident of the Norwegian coastal town of Gressvik, found his whaling boat sitting unusually deep in the water. When he climbed aboard to investigate, he found that the ship was in fact sinking; someone had opened its sea cock and padlocked the engine-room door. After breaking the lock, Enghaugen discovered that the engine was underwater. He also found a calling card from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a small, California-based environmentalist group that specializes in direct actions against whalers. Counting Enghaugen’s boat, Sea Shepherd has sunk or damaged eleven Norwegian, Icelandic, Spanish, and...