StOp Impunity ! II

Chapter II : Piracy


Is Piracy legal or illegal ?

"Spirit of Humanity"

Can you seize a ship, a boat, a jet set's boat or a ferryboat, can you make people cry crocodiles tears about a cruise ship... under piracy and seize a nice little boat with a poetic name ?

Wot ? A twisted question ? Oh... I see. If fishermen get shooted at with no one blinking, if adorable little canots are transformed in strainers, what can be said ? You fools !

Where is the pole ? The text of Law, the "spirit of Law"

So even if you are no more humans, even if you have less spirit than anything, even a stone or a chair, in yourself, even if your chest is devoid of heart, and more full of crap than the chest of drawers I inherited from my grand'ma ... I think that there was a time ship piracy made it up to Hollywood, with big drama and all ... Hum, or not ?

By the way : this site is very rich in spirit, links, (like fishing under fire ...)

http://freegaza.org/en/home/hope-fleet-news

Answer : Of course it is a crime. But nowadays to say that snow is cold, that water wets or basical things like Israel is violating every international law that may be violated, every article of Geneva Conventions IV, protecting - or let's say, that concerns and should protect people under the control of an enemy force - is not appreciated and may get you ... Illegally - of course - detained. Even if you are a UN expert. (see later entries, too) The way some try to slander people who are simply honest, decent and courageous could be chapter III or XX. I'll see. Note there are 159 articles so my only dream is not having the time to enumerate them all.

http://www.palestinecampaign.org/index7b.asp?m_id=1&l1_id=4&l2_id=24&Content_ID=711

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A U.N. human rights investigator on Thursday called Israel's seizure of a ship carrying relief aid for the Gaza Strip "unlawful" and said its blockade of the territory constituted a "continuing crime against humanity".

Israeli authorities on Tuesday intercepted the vessel, which was also carrying 21 pro-Palestinian activists, and said it would not be permitted to enter Gaza coastal waters because of security risks in the area and its existing naval blockade.

Richard Falk, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, said the move was part of Israel's "cruel blockade of the entire Palestinian population of Gaza" in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibiting any form of collective punishment against "an occupied people".

Falk, an American expert on international law, said Israel's two-year blockade of Hamas-ruled Gaza restricted vital supplies such as food, medicine and fuel to "bare subsistence levels".

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a report this week that Israel was also halting entry to Gaza of building materials and spare parts needed to repair damage from its 22-day invasion late last December.

"Such a pattern of continuing blockade under these conditions amounts to such a serious violation of the Geneva Conventions as to constitute a continuing crime against humanity," Falk said in a statement released in Geneva.

Prior to leaving Cyprus, the ship was inspected by Cypriot authorities in response to Israeli demands to determine whether it carried any weapons, according to the U.N. investigator. "None were found and Israeli authorities were so informed."

"Nonetheless, the 21 peace activists on the boat were arrested, held in captivity and have been charged with 'illegal entry' to Israel even though they had no intention of going to Israel," Falk added.>>

Please GO TO THE SITE, and LINK above...

One way or another we are in presence of BLATANT violations of International Law, War crimes and crime against Humanity.