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Banksy ship saving migrants at sea detained in Italy for 'breaking rules'

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Re: Banksy ship saving migrants at sea detained in Italy for 'breaking rules'

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Post by expotesticle »

6510 wrote: post #7
xwdv wrote: post #3

How does Banksy have so much money?

hah, his works are worth millions. edit: He should just buy 10 more boats and ignore the bureaucrats. People would probably give him money to do it. (I would)

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Re: Banksy ship saving migrants at sea detained in Italy for 'breaking rules'

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Post by goodcanadian »

The Italian coast guard accused the ship of “complicating a delicate rescue coordination operation” and putting more pressure on the migrant reception centre in Lampedusa.

The first part is sort of plausible. Having a bunch of cowboys running around can be a big headache for coordination, but the second part? Um, yeah, I guess live migrants do put more pressure on the reception centre than dead ones.

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Post by expotesticle »

6510 wrote: post #7
xwdv wrote: post #3

How does Banksy have so much money?

hah, his works are worth millions. edit: He should just buy 10 more boats and ignore the bureaucrats. People would probably give him money to do it. (I would)

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Re: Banksy ship saving migrants at sea detained in Italy for 'breaking rules'

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Post by OliverGuy »

From the article:

  brought in rules which ban NGO vessels from performing more than one rescue at sea at a time
This seems like a bit of an over reach. Maybe someone can provide some context that is missing in the article

1. If a commercial vessel (container ship etc) finds a migrant boat in need of rescue and then later finds another also in need of rescue, are they supposed to just leave them?

2. How come Italy can dictate what foreign vessels (Banksys ship is registered in German as per the article) do in international waters? How can they prosecute a captain of a vessel for something they did while in international water? (that isn't piracy, or something of that nature)

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Post by expotesticle »

ausbah wrote: post #16
expotesticle wrote: post #10

Using quotes and using derogatory words like far-right, many think they are entitled to skip using logically sound arguments

Italy's government is far right, it's the most rightward government since WW2

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Post by cwmma »

bruceb wrote: post #6

"the far-right government led by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni" amusing how no leader is ever referred to as far left.

Because they call those socialist or communist governments. The real question is why they call them far-right and not something else.

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OliverGuy wrote: post #17

From the article: brought in rules which ban NGO vessels from performing more than one rescue at sea at a time This seems like a bit of an over reach. Maybe someone can provide some context that is missing in the article 1. If a commercial vessel (container ship etc) finds a migrant boat in need of rescue and then later finds another also in need of rescue, are they supposed to just leave them? 2. How come Italy can…

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