At 16:22 6/14/2000 -0400, Michael Sims wrote:
>On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> > What makes anyone think Sealand is outside of the UK's jurisdiction
> > after the government in the 1980s extended their territorial limits to
> > 10 miles? Sealand is 6-7 miles offshore.
>
>Well, that's not the key, extension of sea zones can't bring someone
>else's land under your control. The key is something that I haven't seen
When two countries are mutually recognized and, more to the point,
recognized by the rest of the world, that would be true. The U.S. can't
annex the world by declaring its territorial waters to be 10,000 miles.
But Sealand has never been recognized, which is precisely the point here.
-Declan
