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Skriven 2010-01-09 13:08:13 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
   Kommentar till text 2843 av Ross Cassell (1:123/456)
Ärende: Lemme get this straight
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08 Jan 10 16:14, Ross Cassell wrote to All:

 RC> Hello All!

 RC> If I fly into Amsterdam at that Schipol<sp> airport for a layover or
 RC> whatever, I technically am not in that country because the runway,
 RC> tarmac, terminal, whatever is elevated off of the ground? Just what
 RC> is this infrastructure attached to or is it suspended by wire from
 RC> outer space? Does the nation state known as the Nederlands surrender
 RC> sovereignty over the airspace above and around this airport? Maybe
 RC> they do, threaten their military with a pellet gun and they will
 RC> surrender.

 RC> Sorry folks you are splitting hairs..

Ummmm. You should let this one alone. It's way too funny watching them
squirm, trying to explain how this terrorist wasn't at Schiphol,
Amsterdam, Holland, the Netherlands. :o)

 RC> If I am on a cruise ship that is traversing the Suez Canal or the
 RC> Panama Canal, even though it doesnt stop, I can still say I have been
 RC> in the Nation states of either Egypt or Panama.. If I am on a cruise
 RC> ship that is making several international ports of call and I do not
 RC> disembark at one of several of those international ports of call, I
 RC> still was inside the sovereign territory of those nations.

 RC> In case you PC euros forgot, back in the 1980's when that American
 RC> Citizen was executed and pushed off the side of a cruise ship that
 RC> had gotten taken over by PLO assholes, the US managed to figure out
 RC> which airline the assholes were using and scrambled fighters to
 RC> intercept that airliner. They forced it to land on a NATO base in
 RC> Italy, where the Italian authorities assumed jurisdiction, it was
 RC> their soil afterall. Too bad that airliner wasnt flying over the
 RC> indian ocean, we could have forced them to Diego Garcia, our British
 RC> Partners there would have loved to let us have them.

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