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A recent message in Hippiedom,


"Thanks to the recent UN resolution "Maritime Safety Standards Act" Hospital Ships can now export and import all our goodies to and from the world while carrying all our "wounded" whether its a sore toe or a bout of depression.
Pass on the good news"

Having read the resolution and checked the definitions of the relevant words in the resolution, this is allowed. The "goodies" they are talking about recreational drugs.

Any Comments

A recent message in Hippiedom,


"Thanks to the recent UN resolution "Maritime Safety Standards Act" Hospital Ships can now export and import all our goodies to and from the world while carrying all our "wounded" whether its a sore toe or a bout of depression.
Pass on the good news"

Having read the resolution and checked the definitions of the relevant words in the resolution, this is allowed. The "goodies" they are talking about recreational drugs.

Any Comments

They can still be confiscated on the docks. It's not like we have the jurisdiction to say what can and cannot be transported in International waters by non-members anyway - but we do trade with them.

The resolution forbids other ships from using the markings of a hospital ship. To do so would be non compliance...

A recent message in Hippiedom,


"Thanks to the recent UN resolution "Maritime Safety Standards Act" Hospital Ships can now export and import all our goodies to and from the world while carrying all our "wounded" whether its a sore toe or a bout of depression.
Pass on the good news"

Having read the resolution and checked the definitions of the relevant words in the resolution, this is allowed. The "goodies" they are talking about recreational drugs.

Any Comments

Ha ha. No. Not that we wouldn't like to see you try. I mean, wounded die all the time.

~ Hiroshi Andros, Combat Leader, Guild of Paladins

A recent message in Hippiedom,


"Thanks to the recent UN resolution "Maritime Safety Standards Act" Hospital Ships can now export and import all our goodies to and from the world while carrying all our "wounded" whether its a sore toe or a bout of depression.
Pass on the good news"

Having read the resolution and checked the definitions of the relevant words in the resolution, this is allowed. The "goodies" they are talking about recreational drugs.

Any Comments


You may wish to refer to the current debate regarding Sexual Freedom as it pertains to "hair-splitting". If the purpose of the vessel is to transport and care for the wounded, then there's a good chance that the crew isn't too interested in losing their immunity over a few kilos of some narcotic. If they are indeed transporting other "goodies", then they are a transport vessel and banned from donning the livery of a hospital ship. Trying to gray or blur the line between the two will not fool the gnomes.

Those of us not in the UN, however, can still sink your filthy, drug smuggling asses.

- Dargan Zaraad, Office of Unofficial Official Statements
The Federated Technocratic Oligarchy of the Most Glorious Hack

Which reminds me, where is the Compadrian airforce going to get their target practice from now?

May the blessings of our otters be upon you all.

Leonard Otterby
Ambassador for the Republic of Compadria to the U.N.

Simply put, if the nation smuggling drugs is a UN member nation, then it is clearly breaking the law. If the nation is not, then its hospital ships do not have the same immunity that UN hospital ships do, and so, if suspected of smuggling drugs, there is no restriction on the kind of force that can be used against such ships.

I am not advocating the sinking of hospital ships. I am simply suggesting that, should force be required on the part of a UN member nation, there is nothing to stop the nation from using such force.

A. T. Stilgram
Caratian Ambassador to the United Nations

Simply put, if the nation smuggling drugs is a UN member nation, then it is clearly breaking the law.
No it is not. There are no UN drug laws.

Which reminds me, where is the Compadrian airforce going to get their target practice from now?And more importantly, where will the Compadrian airforce get its funding? :eek:

nstracker.retrogade.com/index.php?nation=compadria

And more importantly, where will the Compadrian airforce get its funding? :eek:

nstracker.retrogade.com/index.php?nation=compadria

Maybe that comes out of their government's spending on 'Law & Order'?

No it is not. There are no UN drug laws.

What I meant was that the nation smuggling drugs in hospital ships is clearly breaking the law.

Sorry for the misunderstanding,
A. T. Stilgram
Caratian Ambassador to the United Nations