GL: Brunswick Landing Pricing & Venice Water Nazi

[Ralph Yost]

""protection from unreasonable search and seziure"

Maritime law is not the same as other law......
Have you noticed that the Marine Police or Coast Guard can stop you and 
board your boat and search it any time they want without any probable cause? 
This has been the case for years.

R,

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "M S" <valhalla360 at yahoo.com>
To: <great-loop at lists.samurai.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 7:59 AM
Subject: GL: Brunswick Landing Pricing & Venice Water Nazi


> Brunswick Landing: Obviously if you want to haul out it sounds like you 
> need
> to shrinkwrap. The original request sounded like it was just for a slip 
> for a
> month which is what was relayed in which case $11/ft with no shrinkwrap is
> still correct.
>
> Venice Water Nazi: Unfortuantely, the paragraph below has some flawed 
> logic.
> In many states, the Coast Guard Registration is all that is required, so 
> the
> name and hailing port are the equivilent of a license plate. So what he is
> doing is the equivelent of pulling over a car with a michigan license
> plate because they don't have a florida license plate. From my 
> understanding,
> he is (was?) pulling over boats for no reason and then going thru them 
> until
> he found something. I would think the "protection from unreasonable search 
> and
> seziure" should protect us from these types of shake downs, but for some
> reason boaters accept it. The only reason I can think is there are enough 
> laws
> on the books (some conflicting with each other), that if you annoy the 
> officer
> they can always find some reason to hand out a ticket, so the best course 
> is
> to keep quite and don't annoy the officer. Clearly this officer is (was?) 
> not
> using good judgement in choosing which and
> how to enforce the laws. As such he should be pulled up short. I don't
> believe for a minute that there was nothing the polititians could do about 
> it.
> I suspect they were enjoying the large fines he was handing out to
> non-constituants. I worked in government long enough to know that problem
> people may not get fired, but they can be moved somewhere where they are
> harmless.
>
> It is amusing that we criticize this officer for enforcing the regulation 
> of
> boats, but would be outraged if the same officer turned a blind eye 
> towards
> people driving around in cars with no
> license plates...
>
> Mike & Tammy
> Valhalla II
> Currently:Port Royal, SC
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