I don’t know if the Safe Third Country agreement would apply to this, since the US wouldn’t be the Third Country. Wouldn’t that only apply if she went from somewhere else in the world to the US and then to Canada. She’s from the US, not from somewhere else coming to Canada via the US. I think if it did she would’ve been deported immediately.

But yeah ending the Safe Third Country agreement needs to be a priority. They’re sending people to a gulag down there FFS, it’s definitely not a safe third country for asylum seekers by any stretch of the imagination.

Wait… are we framing her as a kidnapped child or a POW? Gotta make sure everyone is on the same page when making propaganda about this.

An operation involving naval and air forces by which a belligerent completely prevents movement by sea from or to a port or coast belonging to or occupied by an enemy belligerent. To be mandatory, that is, for third States to be obliged to respect it, the blockade must be effective. This means that it must be maintained by a force sufficient to prevent all access to the enemy coast.

So… according to the link you’ve provided Israel is actually required to board the ship or they can no longer prevent shipments of weapons coming from Iran?

Essentially aid entry is allowed so long as you agree to security arrangements that are both reasonable and lawful.

Has there been any indication these flotilla activists attempted to make such security arrangements with Israel?

Why do you think he’s everything they hate about immigrants? Are you not aware that he’s white?

Gaza is under a declared blockade, Maritime Law (the oldest of international law) allows detaining any ship bound for a blockaded port. It’s really cut and dry, they very publicly declared they were bound for a blockaded port. It’s not like Israel boarded a ship that just happened to be in the area, these freedom flotilla yahoos very publicly declared they were bound for Gaza, which under Maritime Law permits Israel to board it.

International law is an agreement between nations and doesn’t actually restrict nations from doing things that will hurt your feelings. You’re going down the sovcit path when you pretend international law is whatever you want it to be.

We all know Hurricanes jumped the shark with the Katrina. Sure there’s been a few decent seasons after that, but it’s run it’s course and it’s really time to wind it down. It should draw some big ratings for the finale.

Variety reports there’s a spin-off in the works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatari_support_for_Hamas

You sound like you’re doing Warhammer 40K roleplay. It also involves pretending to be loyal to a fucked up empire. It’s more believable than the fantasy world you’re describing.

The could also spend a lot of money on transitioning to green energy too. But it’s cheaper to spend on people manipulation. Everything is fine, it’s always been this way!

I know my rights, man.

Russians keep gravitating towards authoritarians over and over again. Can’t think of any other country that reverted back to it multiple times in a century. Weak people want strong man leaders, just how it is.

I’d hoped Russians could grow a spine and get rid of Putin, but they’ll probably go on riding his dick for the rest of his life. Closest they got to ending that cunt was Prigozhin attempting a coup in a drunken rage, but he sobered up and chickened out before it was done. Just how shit goes in Russia, always on a spectrum between drunkenness and authoritarian dick riding.

If you voted for Trump you voted for hurting people. This is what you voted for.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-trans-right-asylum-canada-trump-transgender-hannah-kreager/

https://www.newsweek.com/transgender-lgbtq-canada-asylum-immigration-2061055

That’s my type!

Happening already. US trans people are coming to Canada and applying for asylum now.

The point of this was never to deliver aid. The point was to have the exact result that has played out. It’s doubtful they were even carrying food, they did this with the intent on being boarded to produce propaganda. The IDF handed out sandwiches to mitigate the propaganda. Both parties knew how it would play out, the Freedom Flotilla got some video to monetize, mission accomplished, I guess.

Also there is no way to distinguish between a drone carrying food from a Houthi drone carrying munitions. The drones would be shot down. Though you never know, the Freedom Flotilla crowd might try it if they feel that it would be good propaganda. Though it’s doubtful since whatever boat they launched these drones from would be quickly boarded and they would be detained for potentially a long time before it could be verified the drones they launched weren’t weapons.

Gaza is under a declared blockade. Israel has the legal right to board any ship bound for Gaza under international law. The whole Freedom Flotilla thing is just dumb entertainment for the ignorant. It changes exactly nothing.

Apparently your alternative media news has never shown you the palaces the Hamas political leadership in Qatar lived in. I’m using past tense there because most of them are dead now.

But the billions of dollars they hoarded still exists, it’s not like the government of Qatar is going to freeze the assets of Hamas.

You shouldn’t assume that because the people living under an authoritarian regime are poor, the leaders of that regime are also poor. In fact the opposite is more often true.

I think that’s more up to the Russian people than anyone in the west. Russians like strong men, it’s a weakness in their society. Everyone outside Russia wanted it to continue to be a democracy, Russia even had a brief association with NATO while it was. But Yeltsin drank too much (alcoholism being another weakness in Russian society) and that allowed a guy like Putin to make himself a Czar.

Yeah, it seems authoritarianism is bad. Hopefully Russians will figure that out the next go around.

Yeah I’ve always said the the flaw in Turing’s Imitation Game concept is that if an AI was indistinguishable from a human it wouldn’t prove it’s intelligent. Because humans are dumb as shit. Dumb enough to force one of the smartest people in the world take a ton of drugs which eventually killed him simply because he was gay.