Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Possible BNCNMYTWVN 5-Country Reef and Obelisk
Date: Sep 08, 2004 @ 03:41
Author: Michael Kaufman (Michael Kaufman <mikekaufman79@...>)
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Why not 6 country with Philippines?

--- aletheiak <aletheiak@...> wrote:

> yes we have had this report at least since message
> 14049
> when i still imagined she was only a 4country reef
>
> see under louisa in alphabetical list of spratlys in
> the middlebury
> link there
>
> only later did it dawn on me that the bruneian claim
> to her was
> just as real as the 4 others
> despite its being unique in not acknowledging the
> reef as dry
> land but only as maritime territory
>
> but i generally prefer my theories as spare & lean
> as possible
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G.
> McManus"
> <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> > Each theory is as good as the other.
> >
> > Do we know for fact that the lighthouse or
> navigation beacon
> was Malaysian, or
> > is that theory too?
> >
> > Lowell G. McManus
> > Leesville, Louisiana, USA
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...>
> > To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 1:47 PM
> > Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Possible BNCNMYTWVN
> 5-Country Reef and Obelisk
> >
> >
> > > well no need to postulate a greater mystery in
> order to solve
> a
> > > lesser one
> > >
> > > & i think a single 5country obelisk in the sea
> is plenty for the
> time
> > > being
> > >
> > > the so called lighthouse or beacon
> > > whether it was mounted atop the obelisk or not
> > > could easily have just been a small reflector or
> glow type
> > >
> > > the lawn of my estate here on cream hill is
> littered with solar
> > > powered night lights comprised of 6inch plastic
> cubes that
> just
> > > stick into the ground
> > >
> > > & the 2 blocklike forms you have spotted on the
> reef could
> easily
> > > have come from the top of the single known
> obelisk
> > > the height of which does indeed appear to have
> been
> reduced
> > > as detailed below
> > > by the necessary 15 or 20 percent to account for
> them
> > > give or take a beacon
> > > & were perhaps shot down by the same chinese
> gunboat
> that
> > > perhaps shot out the light
> > >
> > > leaving stone markers to claim sovereignty over
> islets
> > > &or destroying such markers to deny it
> > > has been a fixture thruout the china seas since
> 1895
> > >
> > > after malaysia destroyed the chinese marker here
> > > it seems to me
> > > the least china could have done was destroy the
> malaysian
> light
> > >
> > > anyway so little for my theory
>
>




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