Dear Hasbeen,

If you are after a Christian culture in Australia, here is what the First Christian said: "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth".

Y,

I am surprised that you command a gang of pirates.

P.S. Stopping people traffickers on the high seas is legal in international maritime law, dating back from slavery and is not piracy as idiot greenies have claimed.

Dear SM,

A gang of pirates counts me as one of them, whether I like it or not. If I were their leader then I would disband the gang.

Had the gang calling themselves "The Commonwealth of Australia" been openly declaring themselves a dictatorship, then I would have been able to relax and just mind my own personal affairs to the extent they allow me. However, since they publish themselves as a "democracy", presumably doing what they do also in my name, it becomes my duty to resist and let everyone know that what they do, both within Australia and on the wide ocean around it, is not on my behalf, never been.

Now regarding people traffickers:

First, just because a human-made law is labelled "international" does not make it valid, legitimate or moral.

Second, "people trafficking" refers to slave-trade, especially in helpless youngsters being sold as prostitutes: it does not apply to free people who hire a captain of a boat/ship to take them where they want.

Y,

I didn't use the term human trafficking which is most widely understood as coercive, rather the term people trafficking which is the illicit smuggling of people across borders. The international maritime treaty which most sea faring countries have signed, recognises the right of countries to intercept, people traffickers, drug dealers etc.

If you don't recognise international treaties, what laws do you deign to adhere to?

Dear SM,

«what laws do you deign to adhere to?»

The laws of God or otherwise you can call them the laws of nature.
This includes the laws of physics (such as gravity, speed-of-light, thermodynamics, etc.) and the derived laws of chemistry, etc. It also includes the law of karma and the laws of spiritual evolution and morality.

Y,

So essentially whatever you feel is OK at the time?