Re: [TML] Shared 'ports and startown policing
Jeff Zeitlin 04 Dec 2022 01:43 UTC
On Sat, 3 Dec 2022 14:21:30 -0800, David Johnson wrote:
[Replying to me]
>> There's really only one example here on Earth that I can think of that
>> applies, even partially:
>
>How 'bout:
>
>https://cnrse.cnic.navy.mil/Installations/NS-Guantanamo-Bay/
>
>And, of course:
>
>https://medium.com/voices-of-the-armed-forces/what-is-british-forces-gibraltar-e6194cf0c994
>
>These weren't "ceded" quite as amicably as the former Maryland and Virginia territory which became the District of Columbia but then I don't imagine that's always how it's happened with the Imperium's "extralities" either. . .
OK, I'll concede the point - and Gibraltar is probably a better "match" for
an Imperial cession and startown than Guantanamo, although at Gibraltar
it's pretty certain that the town predates the airport.
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