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OSC could not issue 'commands' the OSC was a coordinator for the various resources at the scene.
If a Swedish Navy helicopter wanted to vary it's route to drop of survivors at a hospital more convenient for the overall mission, why would the OSC object. How would he stop it happening? |
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Why would it? For obvious reasons, If a ship sank in the channel French and British helicopters would be involved.
Survivors would be taken to the most convenient location. If it sank close to the French coast I would expect just French helicopters to respond, and similar for British helicopters if it was near the British coast. A request could be made to other nations to assist the rescue but the country a helicopter belonged to would still have control if it. |
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No, the JIAC gives the reason as being 'low on fuel'.
This underlines my belief there was a helicopter on the scene, having left just after 0200 (EET) within the standard 15-minute time frame, and as there was no OSC as of that time, it simply took the persons it rescued to Huddinge. As these turned out to include some members of the senior crew - who unsurprisingly would be travelling together - just like, Sillaste, Treu, Linde and Kadak, who were also all in one raft - as they were accommodated in the upper decks in nearby cabins. As they had to be removed from the list of survivors later, JAIC found it easier to simply ignore the early flight all together and pretend Svensson's team did not arrive until near six o'clock and only picked up one survivor. The fact one team member might have swapped with another team member does not obscure the fact that Y64's tally was one, when earlier Svensson had been giving it large to Aftonbladet that he (his team) had rescued eight human beings plus one who died. |
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Vixen, would you please enlighten me as to what you think a cult of personality is?
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I've had lengthy interactions with Björkman, but none whatsoever with Bollyn. From what they've written I conclude they are separate people. Besides, you don't seem to be a very reliable authority on who is real and who isn't.
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You cited him as a source. The article you cited spells out exactly the legal theory you're now trying to say has been so commonly reported that it must have come from someplace else. You have yet to cite any other source that makes these same pseudo-legal claims. Just how dumb do you think other people are?
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This is the same lame excuse you offer every time one of your authorities revealed not to be one. With neither Björkman nor Bollyn is the question of one of a "personality cult." The question is whether they are reliable authorities for the claims they have made, which you have happily borrowed. The amount of effort you expend dodging an examination of your sources leads me to conclude you know full well who they are and what their reputation is, but you plan to see how far you can lie about what your sources are.
Bollyn is clearly your source for the claim that Sweden committed the crime of enforced disappearance against two Egyptian deportees, and that this should be considered a continuation of their behavior in the MS Estonia case. An honest person would have realized after some discussion that the claim is factually wrong and legally absurd. You have not; you have pressed onward hoping enough of that claim seems superficially credible and that no one would find out where you got it from. |
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Why does taking the most direct route for repair and dropping survivors on the way mean they weren't also low on fuel?
By the time they returned they had been in the air for hours. There was no 'standard 15 minute timefraim' We went through this in great detail just a week or so ago. At the time of the Estonia sinking the standby time was one hour. Also Y 64 was not a SAR helicopter. It was not on standby to do anything. It was an Anti Submarine helicopter. It' along with a number of others was brought in to supplement the SAR helicopters. |
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Because examining people's theories informs us how devoted they are to the otherwise discoverable truth.
I see that in a short space of time you've gone from denying that Christopher Bollyn is a real person -- claiming it to be a pen name of "disiniformationists" -- to saying he's an okay chap and we should listen to him even if he has strange beliefs. As others have noted, this change of heart coincides with your inability to hide him any further as your source for the claim regarding Sweden, the Egyptians, and international law. You'll find him just as difficult to whitewash as Björkman. You're asking us to trust Bollyn's judgment and legal analysis. You're asking us to trust that he has represented the facts correctly. We're showing you the reasons why such trust should not be granted. |
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You tried to cite MV Lehti as an independent source for the legal theory that Sweden's deportation of two Egyptians constituted enforced disappearance as defined in the 1998 Rome Statute, and that a court found as much. It is not an independent source, as it cites to Bollyn.
You have insinuated that this theory is well enough known that other sources have reported on it. But you have yet to cite any such sources, "regularly read" or otherwise. And it really does not matter at this point, because you seem to have forgotten that you identified Bollyn as your source. Bollyn is your problem because you made it so. |
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Since it's not an independent source, please cite to another one. While I'm sure MV Lehti will not be the only publication that refers to Bollyn, the point is that you referred to Bollyn and identified him as the source, citing to the very article in which the theory was explained. Whatever other reporting there may be, your source is Bollyn.
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That may be nonsense but it's your nonsense because as usual it wasn't the claim. Y74 had to return to base for a change of crew before rejoining the search. Diverting to Utö would have delayed that and would not have got the survivors to a proper hospital as soon as flying them to Huddinge.
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In this context, the idea that one idealised person is the possessor of some kind of esoteric knowledge; his or her followers lap up every word like pearls of wisdom which they can quote like shining drops of molten gold off by heart, whenever the occasion demands it.
The idea that I am a follower of some not-even-particularly bright or literate person is just so funny. |
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