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It also doesnt mean you blame the police for not stationing a guy on a chair in every household for not doing enough to stop it.
You keep pivoting.
Your original question:
I gave you one possible idea. Then I gave you a link that showed you that the British navy had no problem doing that. Then you decided I was talking about stopping the international slave trade when I said no such thing. Now you're going back to something I said before the link I gave you showing you that my original comment of America not giving a shit was 100% correct.
So you've decided to go back to the chair thing... rather than, for some reason, just admitting that yes, it's true, America didn't even try because they didn't care.
Mate the bloody link you posted showed that the British had a very clear problem in trying to stop it.
And you're changing the subject again.
Unless you can provide evidence that the American government did care about stopping American ships engaging in the international slave trade, I'm not sure what your point is.
Because, again, my point is that they didn't care.
Here's more evidence that they didn't care:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_Prohibiting_Importation_of_Slaves
"We can't arrest these people for violating laws we know they're violating! They might only be pretending to be American!"
Imagine if that excuse was made about any other possible American law violation.
I mean I can keep digging up more evidence that they didn't give a shit, but this seems like I'm doing all the work here and you're just ignoring it.