The Slaveship Misdemeanor

"If any persons shall enter embark on board, or contract for the entering and embarking on board of any ship, vessel, or boat, as petty officer, seaman, marine, or servant, or in any other capacity not herein-before specifically mentioned, knowing that such ship, vessel, or boat is actually employed or is, in the same voyage or upon the same occasion in respect of which they shall so enter and embark on board, or contract so to do as aforesaid, intended to be employed in accomplishing any of the objects, or the contracts in relation to the objects, which objects and contracts have herein-before been declared unlawful, then and in every such case the persons so offending, [(F1) and their procurers, counsellors, aiders, and abettors], shall be [(F2) guilty of an offence], and shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years."

Friends, this is the texts from "The Slave Trade Act of 1824 (uk)" [#1], which probably is still in force, concerning with the seamen who sought to work on an illegal cargo vessel, i.e. Slave Trading Vessel. Those who found to have worked on such vessel are considered in criminal law, not as felony but, as misdemeanor (minor, lesser).

I sometimes do think about those guards, nurses and doctors who contracted to work for Broadspectrum (Transfield Services P/L) and IHMS. They, most probably, are people like you and me, looking for 'some' work, just trying to put food over table for their own families. That said, these workers shouldn't be insensitive, claimed "We're just doing our jobs in accordance with the terms of out contract", and oblivious to the sufferings of asylum-seekers. Under normal circumstances, everything might be lawful of course, such wilful ignorance to the plight of asylum-seekers. But not for the slavery or the Crimes Against Humanity. The Slave Trade Act of 1824 (UK) is one such example: you've come onboard a slave ship, be so it claimed knows nothing beforehand, but would not get away free of guilt. That's a misdemeanor.

On the Slaveships of Manus/Nauru RPCs

For long, I had envisioned these Offshore Processing Centres are like Slaveships that travel only in length of time (Shall we teach the lawyers and judges, the "Einstein Theory of Relativity" ? ) [#2]:

"32. Consider an enterprising ship with slaves onboard is heading towards certain destination and making money. Along the way, the ship moored at different ports, the captain in charge may have changed and crews onboard may have rotated. The ship may have been repainted and may even change its flag. However, so long as the enslaved are held onboard that ship, the captains in charge and the enterprise in question are to be held liable for the crime of slave-trade. In our case of the slave-ship of Australian-run RPCs, the ship doesn't travel in spatial distances but in the length of time. In similar fashion, on the transactions relating to RPCs, the Transfield Services P/L, the (renamed) Broadspectrum and (new flag) Ferrovial will all found to have violated the crime of enslavement within the meaning of the Rome Statute."

In any case, these detention companies (Transfield Services P/L, Broadspectrum, Ferrovial, IHMS) have co-perpetrated in the crime of enslavement; for which their company directors must be held to account for the crime. On the one hand, those guards, nurses and doctors who contracted to work in these detention companies are not free of guilt, of course. On crime of enslavement, there isn't such thing any "Cries out loud baby" could be found the innocent. When you sought to work onboard these slaveships, that's misdemeanor. -- NetIPR.

Reported Law Suites

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/dec/20/former-manus-isla...
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/dec/27/australian-govern...

The Slave Trade Act of 1824
[#1] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo4/5/113/contents

[#2] http://www.aus4iccwitness.org/node/48