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Dennis M. Hope Has Owned the Moon Since 1980 Because He Says So
- natroniks 8y agoThis guy bases his claims on the following "So I went to the library, looked up the 1968 Outer Space Treaty and, sure enough, Article 2 states: "No nation by appropriation shall have sovereignty or control over any of the satellite bodies." Meaning it was unowned land" Later in this scheme, learn, "In 2001, I had 163,000 emails from customers asking me that. The conclusion we came to was to set up a democratic republic nation called the "Galactic Government." It took us three years to write the constitution and we put it online in March 2004, when we had 3.7 million property owners and 173,562 votes for ratification. So now we’re a fully constitutionally ratified sovereign nation." So, first he says, it's cool because sovereign nations cannot stake a claim. But after decades of selling property, he formed a sovereign nation that claims ownership on the property he sold. Does this not strike everyone as contradictory and makes all claims of this Galactic Republic as null and void?
- yummybear 8y agoBut no law specifically says he can claim ownership, does it? I mean why not just claim ownership over all air on the planet if no law prevents it.
- masonic 8y agoNext, he'll sue Earth for cutting off his solar power 11 days ago.