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If you dig into the class of people who own ships, you’ll realize that the government doesn’t want to offend the wealthy class.
by newsclues 6y ago
If you dig into the class of people who own ships, you’ll realize that the government doesn’t want to offend the wealthy class.
- DoreenMichele 6y agoA lot of shipping issues are complicated because we have no global government and we have a lot of international waters and shipping, by its very nature, tends to involve ships passing from one legal jurisdiction to another repeatedly. It's not about not wanting to offend wealthy people. It's in part a matter of "Who has authority here?" There's a lot I don't understand about it, but this seems like it's probably a fairly modern development and it's high time we created meaningful solutions so this cannot happen again. Glad to see he got free and a reporter was talking to him and he was broadcasting via internet. But that should not be how something like this gets resolved, on some kind of ad hoc basis after so long. And someone here said someone volunteered to take his place, so it's apparently not really resolved, though he got relief.