Mr.Yankees wrote:George S.K wrote:The quarantine is indeed a controversial issue and therefore is not subjected to any particular book, other than the rules. Come on, you enforced quarantine on international waters, blocking several commercial routes and therefore infringing multiple charts and books. I can have Kalopia enforce quarantine all over Terra and have any moving vessel shot down and destroyed completely simply because it violated my constitutionally legal blockade of all the international waters boundary.
Secondly, I recognize the 10 aircraft carriers. No fuss about that. Lodamun can at least be given the opportunity to be proud of its own, powerful navy. Lodamun opposition has no OOC grudges about that particular issue.
Pass one the message where? And I don't intend to become leader of anything. I hate leadership. It means dealing with all the irrational ideas of the world. You intend to become a politician or something?
George, in real life, it would actually be legal but I'll step aside from there and let's allow the IC discussions on the legality to determine so, don't you think that is the best thing to do?
I am a politician George. A few players here know where I work at. Of course, I won't reveal it in public as it isn't of any interest to all of you guys. And no, it's not the CIA or the NSA or the FBI. I hate most of those bastards, especially the NSA.
Quarantines' legality in real life is questionable at best, they are almost always used as a legal fiction to justify a de facto blockade. The real question at the heart of the issue before us, though, is not the quarantine itself by the extent. Within the 500 kilometers granted by the Law of the Sea Treaty to nations to enforce transitory authority the quarantine, though still ill-advised and poorly thought out, can be argued to be legal. Outside of that, there is no basis and ground from which to argue. The quarantine of Cuba during the missile crisis was accepted as legal because it was narrowly defined and enforced, the US did not seek to intercept, search, and board vessels in the middle of the Atlantic.