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It is a rather peculiar suggestion, as it is important to note that letters of marque is basically only a thing in international waters. Inside harbors and terr
by belorn 5y ago
It is a rather peculiar suggestion, as it is important to note that letters of marque is basically only a thing in international waters. Inside harbors and territorial water the coast guard and military has a lot of freedom, and its a fairly recurring event that boats are sometimes denied permission to leave. Boats can also be denied to use specific water ways, in similar ways that roads can be disabled for general use. Naturally, boats that are stuck because they are not given permission to leave territorial water is still property of their owners, in a similar way that frozen assets of sanctioned individuals are only frozen.
Law of the Sea Treaty, which was signed fairly recent, have United States claiming control of 200 nautical miles from the coastline. In theory they should be able to force any ship to go into harbor and stay there.
- WinstonSmith84 5y agoYes. For the matter, many EU countries used extensively this right to deny boats leaving their harbour 2 years ago (because Covid). Specifically Portugal, Spain and France (among others) have been infamous.
- throw0101a 5y ago> Law of the Sea Treaty, which was signed fairly recent, have United States claiming control of 200 nautical miles from the coastline. The US did not ratify UNCLOS: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_United_Nations_Convention_on_the_Law_of_the_Sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_United_N... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_the_Law_of_the_Sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_t... They may generally follow it out of good manners, but it is not binding on them.
- belorn 5y agoMy point is that they can choose to exercise territorial control for ships that extends fairly far away from the coastline If the government of the United states want to freeze those assets, and they are located anyway near the US, they can just send out coast guards/military escorts and force them into harbor. No need to arm private citizens with letters of marque.