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Re: 2008 Investigation for Potential Spanish Shipwrecks in Ultra-Deep Water |
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Peter Hess |
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Feb 26, 08 - 3:10 PM |
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http://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOI/MMS/PO/M08PS00031/SynopsisR.html |
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If one needed any further evidence that the federal archaeological bureaucracy wants to get into the treasure salvage business, here it is. The US Minerals Management Service is supposedly focused on leasing offshore waters for oil and gas development. But treasure galleons are far more interesting.
As an aside, I've worked closely with Senator John McCain's military attache on a proposed piece of legislation entitled The Navy Warbirds Act ("NWA") which would legislatively confirm that former US Navy aircraft which had been "Stricken" from the list of active US Navy assets (ironically enough, the Admiral who wrote this order during WW II was none other than Sen. McCain's father!) were in fact legally abandoned. Under the US Constitution's Property Clause, only Congress can obtain and abandon federal property. Hence, the need for the NWA. An administrative accommodation made the passage of the Act unnecessary (at least in Congressional estimation).
So why do I write this? I hear you asking yourselves. Because John McCain will reign in the bureaucratic campaign to gain control of the world's undiscovered sunken treasures and historic shipwrecks. This is a quintessentially private sector arena where there are high risks and concommittantly potentially high rewards. Our taxpayers' dollars have no business being spent on the search for deepwater Spanish galleons. Your support of John McCain's candidacy for the President will help to ensure this.
Peter Hess |
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