Simply enforce the international law of the seas.
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I had a vague, general understanding of what the law of the sea is saying on what is described in this article, and so I wonder since two or threee years already why it is not being implemented.
The answer is clear. There is no real hunger for doing the right and the correct thing, the law-abiding and legally binding thing, there instead is an ideologically driven craving to bring as many foreigners to Europe as possible. Humanitarianism and rescuing have little to do with it. Its moralising, and moral megalomania. And a good dose of emotional hysteria and a chance for socialist dreams of disrupting the established bourgeoise communal and social orders of Western states.
I mean, its clear, isn't it: you poic them up in the 12-mile zone of an african country, so you bring them to the next harbour in the country owning that 12 mile zone. It is obliged by international law to take them off the ship and accept them back! If instead you shuttle them over hundreds of miles to a compelöteel ydifferent sea zone and a differeht, far away country, you turn thes epeople - may they be refugees or may they be migrants - into passengers, into travellers who have not booked a ticket for the trip, have no legal allowances by the nation they want to go to, have no claim at all.
I have a growing, cold, bitter anger for these private rescuers fishing for foreign travellers to Europe. These "rescuers" imo are in no way to be seen different from those criminals and smugglers getting paid for smuggling their human freight onto the open sea. These rescuers are criminals in themselves. The article says it somewhere what I already assumed before: that Italy and Malta with their shutting down of harbours just act within the coverage of internal law and do nothing outrageous at all.