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Re: Allyons' Shipwreck |
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Pat Clyne |
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Sep 19, 06 - 10:32 AM |
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Atocha@aol.com |
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Jim, your opening question: "I wonder if the Kingdom of Spain is supporting this?" raises VERY profound questions relating to not only who is supporting this but just what will become of any subsequent wreckage found during this search. As you know, in that neck of the woods the 4th Circuit set the unpopular precedence for Spain’s re-established ownership of their previously abandoned vessels. So we may ask ourselves:
Has South Carolina notified Spain as to their intent?
Has South Carolina received permission from Spain to search & recover any part of this vessel?
Do the taxpayers of South Carolina realize that their money is going into an expensive expedition that may very well be completely confiscated by Spain based on our own laws?
Or is it just a matter of the laws NOT applying to government employees. (Wow, what a concept, say it isn’t so Mr. Congressman !!!!)
Again the age-old question of “Should government agencies be held accountable for their actions using the same standards of law that its citizens must abide?” Ethically, of course, it’s a rhetorical question. But one it seems we are constantly asking of our government and the people they employ to represent us.
Just so nobody is surprised by that last ‘possibility,’ I would like to show you how in the past our tax money has been spent to finance, what basically is, illegal salvage of historical shipwrecks by agencies of our government working on our behalf. Please read the story of the HMS Fowery.
In Search of Information on
The H.M.S. Fowery
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