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rhys wrote:
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:01:47 -0500, "Jim Carter" wrote: Well Armond, you should read the law again. I read it several times and I have interpreted it to mean that I, a Canadian citizen, and my boat, which is Canadain registered, will be seized by the US Govermnet Agencies empowered by this law, if they perceive that I will be travelling in US waters and my "intent" is to travel from US waters to Cuba. Yep. If you play Desi Arnaz 78s off Syracuse in a Canadian boat, the I-68 or whatever the form is called won't protect you if they think you're contemplating a cigar run. This is why I will not cross the lake. I do not care to subsidize fanaticism or to risk state-sanctioned theft because some nautical mall cops thinks I might be a Commie sympathiser. Well, no, but I do enjoy a Havana Club rum at the dock on occasion. So my increasingly lucrative dollars stay here in Soviet Canuckistan until someone grows a brain and a sense of proportion and respect for international law. To me this amounts to Piracy. Well, any excuse will do with the arrr-yo-ho-ho types. As the late Bill Hicks noted, the U.S. Feds went in at Waco because they "had heard of child abuse" (later unsubstantiated). Hicks said "in that case, why aren't there Abrams tanks flattening half the Catholic churches in the country?" Logic doesn't enter into things with governments, particularly governments that abrogate to themselves extra-territorial powers. R. Well said Rhys. Well said indeed. |
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