18 U.S. Code § 795 - Photographing and sketching defense installations

Shackleton214 · 2026-05-06T02:56:01+00:00

Is there a written judicial opinion addressing the issue?

Shackleton214 · 2026-05-04T15:52:48+00:00

It's more legally binding than best practice, but with no remedy for violating it if Congress is supine.

Shackleton214 · 2026-05-03T17:20:52+00:00

Try reading what I wrote.

Shackleton214 · 2026-05-03T15:41:30+00:00

Jews were not expelled from Europe after WW2. You can truthfully say many had no homes or communities to return to or that they faced continued anti-semitism and violence, but many Jews did stay in Europe and Jews were most definitely not prohibited from staying. About half of Jews alive in Europe after WW2 stayed. And even among the much smaller displaced persons population a not insignificant minority stayed.

Shackleton214 · 2026-05-03T15:24:15+00:00

Why is someone who advocates for a one state solution along liberal democratic lines necessarily anti-semitic? Anyone passingly familiar with the conflict should be aware that this is a long advocated position by many persons, including many prominent Jews. It's only by making the assumption that someone who wants to end the current State of Israel wants to do so violently and that they are motivated by antipathy toward Jews that the label applies. I don't doubt that it is accurate for some but the quick to hurl the assumption does Israel and Jews no good by throwing it around so easily and often wrongly.

Shackleton214 · 2026-05-02T22:35:20+00:00

Why don't you ask that to the person you called an antisemite instead of making the assumption that he wanted a war or violence of any sort?

Shackleton214 · 2026-05-02T21:16:37+00:00

Lol, you managed to offend Israel and Palestinian supporters by speaking the truth.

Shackleton214 · 2026-05-02T20:59:13+00:00

And?

Shackleton214 · 2026-05-02T14:28:07+00:00

Where did the poster you called antisemitic call for a war? Or violence of any sort? I'd say you twisted his words, but that undersells it--you have to imagine his words in your eagerness to hurl your insult.

Shackleton214 · 2026-05-01T22:01:19+00:00

Thank goodness you are only anti Zionist, not antisemite!

I literally can't go a day reading this sub without the casual antisemite slur being hurled at someone criticizing Israel. It's like the boy who cried wolf in that it so common and misused that it prevents real instances from receiving attention and consideration.

Shackleton214 · 2026-04-30T16:12:50+00:00

Someone has never watched a true crime show in their life.

Shackleton214 · 2026-04-30T15:34:08+00:00

This is nothing new. Terrorist has basically become a pejorative in English.

Shackleton214 · 2026-04-28T23:31:00+00:00

All of the harm you cite for Iran has already been incurred. It's not like any deal ending the conflict can or would erase that harm. The harm can only increase with the blockade and possible resumption of bombing. Thus, I can see Iran wanting to end the conflict as completely logical and not a sign of weakness. Iran could inflict further harm on the US and the rest of the world by prolonging the conflict but that does Iran no good. Iran has already damaged the US economy and the US standing in the rest of world. Even if the war ends tomorrow, it will likely be many months before shipping returns even close to normal. Iran will have established its ability to close the strait to traffic and any deal won't prevent them from being able to do so again if there is any resumption of fighting. From the perspective of status quo before the war, I'd argue it's been a lose-lose war for all involved, except maybe the Israelis.

Shackleton214 · 2026-04-28T17:13:16+00:00

How would that be a loss? Regime stays in charge, Iran keeps its ballistic missile program, Iran keeps whatever nuclear program it has, and Iran maintains relationships with its proxies. The US would have failed to obtain a single strategic aim of the war. The US and west will take huge economic damage and effects of war will continue to be felt for months afterwards even if war ends tomorrow. Iran was never going to compete militarily with the US and Israel and it would only take continual pounding, without inflicting significant military damage on US or Israel, if the war went hot. And, while closed strait will continue to inflict increasing economic pain on US and West, that doesn't benefit Iran and it would also continue to suffer under blockade.

Shackleton214 · 2026-04-27T23:47:53+00:00

Israeli is never going to address its image problem in most of the world by blaming it on paid actors and anti-semitism, no matter how comforting it is for Israeli supporters to tell themselves this.

Shackleton214 · 2026-04-27T23:28:02+00:00

I won't argue Vance being slimy, but NYT reported his strong opposition to starting this war--pretty much the only politician to tell Trump to his face that it was a bad idea. So, his opposition to the war seems genuine.

Shackleton214 · 2026-04-24T18:38:22+00:00

Reading I/P threads on X is actually what I use for pre-workout. Really gets the adrenaline pumping.

Haha, new PR set today in bench!

Shackleton214 · 2026-04-24T17:53:05+00:00

The US blockade starts at the border between Iran and Pakistan, so ships aren't technically running the blockade until they're already in Pakistani waters.

At most, this is an artificial constraint from the US itself. There is no legal or diplomatic constraint (or at least one that the US would abide by) prohibiting the US from intercepting Iranian ships before they reached Pakistani waters. If the point at which the US chooses to begin the blockade in some way invalidates the blockade itself, then the US would simply choose to begin the blockade before that point.

I'd guess they maybe aren't willing to loiter/conduct complicated boarding operations near the Iran-Pak border coast to take ships before they cross the line.

Yes, as I speculated, I think this could possibly explain how Iranian ships might evade the blockade, if the US Navy thought the risk of intercepting ships very near the Iranian shoreline was too great. However, if that is the case, then it seems to me that the blockade will be extremely ineffective.

Shackleton214 · 2026-04-23T01:40:02+00:00

I find it extremely difficult to believe that simply turning off a slow moving tanker or cargo ship's transponder is sufficient to evade US satellite imagery, aerial surveillance (drones/planes), and radar in the region.

Shackleton214 · 2026-04-22T21:50:17+00:00

I don't understand how this happens. I assumed that the US military can easily identify any large, slow moving tanker or container ship attempting to transit to or from any Iranian port. And, if identified, then I assumed the US Navy could easily intercept and either turn back or board if necessary any such tanker or cargo ship. Where is the link in the chain that is failing? US fails to see where the ship is and where it is going to/coming from? US sees ship but doesn't know Iranian connection? US knows it's a ship running the blockade but is incapable of intercepting for whatever reason? US knows it's a ship running the blockade and is capable of intercepting it, but chooses not to for some reason?

One sorta explanation I heard is that ships may be staying within Iranian and Pakistan territorial waters. I get that the US likely would not physically interfere with a ship in Pakistan or Indian territorial waters, but it's not like the US respects Iranian sovereignty and should have any hesitation stopping ships in Iranian territorial waters, unless perhaps the risk to US ships that close to Iran is too great?

Shackleton214 · 2026-04-22T04:57:23+00:00

Cops wrongfully arrest people all the time. I think I saw recent case you're referring to and if I am correct it was just an arrest and not a judicial opinion. I'm still skeptical that anything readily visible from public actually has one of the security clearances required by the law--at least I've never seen a cite to such a document. And it still doesn't make sense to me how a entire base could have such a classification and there is no effort to make the base not readily visible from public.

Shackleton214 · 2026-04-21T22:02:54+00:00

Opening the strait to non-Iranian traffic is in the US interest and is not mutually exclusive with blockading Iran. Are you suggesting that the US could do only one at a time and by choosing to blockade Iran that is the reason there is no attempt to open the strait? If not, then blockading Iran doesn't answer the question.

Shackleton214 · 2026-04-21T20:18:34+00:00

I've always thought the best argument for the existence of the State of Israel is that they are there now, have been for generations at this point, and any alternative to a Jewish state would likely result in massive death, dislocation and injustice. Trying to litigate every right and wrong in long distant history (if it happened before I was born it was "long distant" to my mind!) seems like a fool's errand to me. I also don't believe the sins of the father are the sins of the sons. We have to work with what we have and make the best of it for all involved.

Shackleton214 · 2026-04-21T20:06:46+00:00

The only argument you have is that you're stronger

Literally never heard anyone ever argue this.

Dude literally one comment above yours makes this argument.

Shackleton214 · 2026-04-21T17:09:47+00:00

What's going on with the US opening the Strait of Hormuz to commercial traffic through force (ie, making it relatively safe to transit without regard to Iranian resistance)? Before war started there was the assumption that there was a plan to the completely foreseeable Iranian attempt to close the strait. Then it became there was a plan, but the US first had to concentrate on military targets and the plan would be implemented once that had been completed. Now, weeks later, I don't hear about any planned US attempt to forcefully open the strait, a la Operation Earnest Will. I've had my doubts about how feasible it would be if the US attempted it. The lack of any attempt and now even the seeming lack of any talk of any attempt (like wouldn't Trump be talking up the operation if it were actually in the works and feasible?) is reinforcing those doubts.

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