Stuart Stone
'Mackximus Minimus: If that is true, there has to be a way that they are fabricating joinder.'
That word 'deemed' seems to have a lot of power, or at least presumed power...
It also seems that liening a vessel into a private jurisdiction only has as much power as the vessels around you...ie: private navy...one lonely vessel becomes easy pickings for privateers.
I recall the Admiral saying something about safety in numbers.
On an unrelated but kinda related topic, I just watched the Monuments Men...interesting movie: It talked about the recovery of approximately 5 million pieces of art, from the Nazis, by the monuments men...
Woo hoo, happy days, those priceless pieces of art then get returned to their rightful owners:
Grade A grand lie of omission coming up, under the heading 'spoils of war'...check where 97% of the art found/recovered by Harry Ettlinger's team got returned to, ie: who the 'rightful owners' were: see 1:55 onwards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG0J4m-NT6M
I get the feeling that this resembles your current situation Chris Evan
