Actually RainMaker, this song is written about a Greenpeace ship by the name of "Rainbow Warrior" which was sunk in 1985. During a mission to Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia to protest French nuclear testing on the island, Greenpeace had planned to moniter the effects of the testing on the environment by placing protesters on the island, against French law of course. The French government infiltrated Greenpeace and discovered these plans. While moored in the port of Auckland, New Zealand, six French agents placed two explosive devices on the 40 meter crafts hull and detonated them. Of the twelve on board, only one was killed, a photographer named Fernando Pereira, when he tried to retrieve his equipment. This caused a massive uproar and resulted in the arrest and incarceration of two of the six bombers. Many of White Lions songs have obvious (and not-so-obvious) political under-pinnings, and none of the groups members were ever shy about revealing political views or affilliations.
Actually RainMaker, this song is written about a Greenpeace ship by the name of "Rainbow Warrior" which was sunk in 1985. During a mission to Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia to protest French nuclear testing on the island, Greenpeace had planned to moniter the effects of the testing on the environment by placing protesters on the island, against French law of course. The French government infiltrated Greenpeace and discovered these plans. While moored in the port of Auckland, New Zealand, six French agents placed two explosive devices on the 40 meter crafts hull and detonated them. Of the twelve on board, only one was killed, a photographer named Fernando Pereira, when he tried to retrieve his equipment. This caused a massive uproar and resulted in the arrest and incarceration of two of the six bombers. Many of White Lions songs have obvious (and not-so-obvious) political under-pinnings, and none of the groups members were ever shy about revealing political views or affilliations.