leifSo the billionaires’ families are gonna get billed for all of this like the time my family got billed for my ambulance ride, right? Right?
João Tiago Rebelo@studiofox not on the seas. If they did that to these billionaires' families they'd do it to poor people too. International Laws of the Sea have provisions to force S&R irrespective of income, religion, creed, etc., for free, for all souls in dire need.
@jt_rebelo and that’s great! But that’s also my point. Helping people everywhere should be a free service for everyone. Just because billions of people are landlocked doesn’t mean they should suffer more.
@studiofox I agree, but people think the other way (let them pay like it happens on land). Around here (south-western Europe) S&R on land is also free (and public). Battle with all your democratic means to impose it where you are: organize, teach/inform and vote.
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International Laws of the Sea don't seem to apply in the Mediterranean when there are refugees involved.
Go figure.
International Laws of the Sea don't seem to apply in the Mediterranean when there are refugees involved.
Go figure.
@PhilipVWilson they do and are being applied. Apart from several NGOs doing it (some getting criminal charges for it...), there are many navy and police vessels there, even from countries that don't have anything to do with the Mediterranean coasts. There are pushbacks and refusals to help, but those are against the Laws of the Seas as much as not searching for the rich people in the sub. The dissonance is that rich people don't get pushbacks nor refusals, in that I agree.
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