| Flotillas - the precedents. Speaking in 1984, on the occasion to launch of an initiative to send a ship to escort people fleeing in boats in South East Asia, Michel Foucault said: "We are just private individuals here, with no other grounds for speaking, or for speaking together, than a certain shared difficulty in enduring what is taking place. ... there's not much we can do about the reasons why some men and women would rather leave their country than live in it. The fact is beyond our reach. Who appointed us, then? No one. And that is precisely what constitutes our right. [...] After all, we are all members of the community of the governed, and thereby obliged to show mutual solidarity. We must reject the division of labour so often proposed to us: individuals can get indignant and talk; governments will reflect and act. [...] Experience shows that one can and must refuse the theatrical role of pure and simple indignation that is proposed to us." | 
