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Deep sea treasure trove launches trans-Atlantic dispute
…….The US company Odyssey Marine Exploration announced on May 18 it had discovered the wreck, code-named “Black Swan“, using the latest in undersea robot technology.
……..What we’re seeing here is a presumed incidence of plundering,” First Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega said Friday.
………Spanish newspaper ABC meanwhile reported Friday that “Black Swan” was Spanish and had been located in Spanish territorial waters near the Strait of Gibraltar.
This is a wreck that has been submerged for hundreds of years. For CENTURIES the government of Spain showed absolutely NO interest and showed NO effort trying to recover anything from this wreck. Now when some enterprising group finds the loot suddenly its something owned by the Spanish government.
What would be the explanation for the media in Spain coming out and totally assuming where this wreck is? I’m pretty sure no one but the people who did the discovering know where this wreck is. Thus I can only assume that someone in the government talked to someone in the media and told them to stir up public opinion in their favor by making this claim.
For a small time socialist government like Spain half a billion dollars in alot of loot. Thus a government official says ” its a case of plundering”. I’d have to agree with that but its not the Odessey group doing it. Governments in general plunder the productive people of the world. This case is just so representative of what you get from governments. They sit perched like vultures doing NOTHING. When any money changes hands they screech and lay claim to a large percentage.
Governments remind me of an extreme passive aggressive character with a wicked sociopathic twist. They don’t do anything of worth sitting on their fat cellulite ridden asses. If you do something and make any sort of success they put you in jail if you don’t pay a percentage. I would never want to be part of a government. My conscience would never alow it. My ambition would never withstand it. How anyone else can be is a mystery. All I can think of is that there are people so full of puss like a swollen painful boil and thus they do not sense the pernicious nature and effect of being a part of government and lording power over others. And do not try to tell me governments do some good. Governments are just an excuse for your conscience so you can fool yourself into believing that the afflicted are taken care of in this case. If you really cared you would give away what you have and go personally help. Personal attention is the greatest sign anyone cares. If you do not give it, you do not really care.