McCartney and his wife Heather ?will not? be charged with harassing a baby seal by petting it. "When disturbance is of such a minor nature, you wouldn't bring someone to court on something like this," Simond said. "Somebody would say that the Canadian government and the Canadian taxpayers must have better things to do than haul Paul McCartney into court because he touched a seal." Interesting. Last year the Canadian government spent a great deal of money prosecuting eleven of my crew for the ?crime? of approaching a seal being killed. You see in Canada it is illegal to photograph, film or witness a seal being killed without permission from the Doofus Department. Last year, film crews from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the Humane Society of the United States and the International Fund for Animal Welfare were all physically attacked by sealers. Sea Shepherd crew were struck with clubs and bloodied. No charges were laid because the Mounties said the sealers were provoked into violence because of the presence of anti-sealing people on the ice. It would look pretty ridiculous indeed to charge Paul McCartney with petting a seal after letting sealers off the hook for clubbing people. Already the Doofus Department has cost the Canadian Fishing Industry tens of millions of dollars because of the growing international boycott on Canadian seafood products. How many hundreds of millions is Canada prepared to lose in order to continue defending the indefensible slaughter of seal pups? The Minister of the Doofus