Top environmentalist may quit over colleague's extremist comments

You must be pretty extreme if your own activist colleagues are saying you're acting like a wingnut...

Elizabeth May, the President of the Sierra Club here in the frozen northlands of Canada, is threatening to leave the Board of Directors of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society over comments a recently arrested activist Dr. Jerry Vlasak made commentsregarding assassination as a valid means to stop animal abuse.

The Sea Shepherd has been the source of much comedy fodder over the past few months... their boat was refused entry out of Harbour since it was leaking so much oil it was deemed an environmental hazard.

Then, once they managed to leave port, they had to be rescued when their boat began taking on water.

Sea Shepherd President Paul Watson (one of the founding members of Greenpeace) originally blamed political harassment for his boating woes. In the latest row, he's backing Vlasak.

You can't make this stuff up, folks.