Os USA voltam à Caça à Baleia

Os USA retomam a filosofia do direito internacional enunciada por Herbert Melville em Moby Dick.

A Venezuela é uma baleia arpoada mas perdida, que urge recuperar a todo o custo. O Capitão Ahab, eleito sob o nome de Trump, sentindo o vento na popa, fabricou um golpe e apelou a famintos e jagunços por toda Latinamérica. Na Europa, as empresas de informação, bem adestradas, reproduzem automaticamente a voz do dono. E os governos levam o lencinho ao nariz como velhas senhoras. Os cães raivosos de VoxFranco e SalviniDux saem dos canis, E Madame Le Peten aprova que Macron ponha açaime nos franceses menos conformados. Está inaugurada mais uma temporada de Caça à Baleia. Ó Habermas! Vem cá falar agora de direito internacional.

O que Melville escreveu em Moby Dick sobre as disputas na caça à baleia, e a a "LEI do MAR", podem ajudar a esclarecer a actual situação politicomilitar no mundo....

"It frequently happens that when several ships are cruising in company, a whale may be struck by one vessel, then escape, and be finally killed and captured by another vessel; and herein are indirectly comprised many minor contingencies, all partaking of this one grand feature. For example,—after a weary and perilous chase and capture of a whale, the body may get loose from the ship by reason of a violent storm; and drifting far away to leeward, be retaken by a second whaler, who, in a calm, snugly tows it alongside, without risk of life or line. Thus the most vexatious and violent disputes would often arise between the fishermen, were there not some written or unwritten, universal, the undisputed law applicable to all cases."#HarpoonedWhale #BaleiaArpoada #LostWhale #BaleiaPerdida#DisputedWhale Herman Melville aborda, no Capítulo 89 de Moby Dick,:a problemática do Direito Internacional, partindo de uma reflexão sobre alguns conflitos na caça à baleia. "Perhaps the only formal whaling code authorized by legislative enactment, was that of Holland. It was decreed by the States-General in A.D. 1695. But though no other nation has ever had any written whaling law, yet the American fishermen have been their own legislators and lawyers in this matter. They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business. Yes; these laws might be engraven on a Queen Anne's farthing, or the barb of a harpoon, and worn round the neck, so small are they.

I. A Fast-Fish belongs to the party fast to it.

II. A Loose-Fish is fair game for anybody who can soonest catch it.

But what plays the mischief with this masterly code is the admirable brevity of it, which necessitates a vast volume of commentaries to expound it."

Diferentemente do romance de Melville, não há nesta Trampa nada de corajoso, nem daqui vai sair nada que possa ser narrado como epopeia. Ficou a pura loucura, a credulidade, e a cobardia de quem fala num gabinete por trás dos ecrans,de quem pretende comandar a guerra a partir do mais requintado bunker antinuclear.