Government as a Religion

[genkaus]

Granted that the point of your case was that the absence of police presence resulted in failure to abide by legal regulations, your quoting maritime law is not simply irrelevant, it's counter-factual. Now go bother someone else with your pettifoggery.

(For what it's worth, I spent a great deal of time on the water in my younger days, so your implication that I'm ignorant of maritime law is not only insulting, it's patently false. I grew up in one of the world's most important ports, as a matter of fact.)

Then you shouldn't be making statements like these. Weren't there coast-guard where you grew up?