D*mn, I’m liking Putin more and more.
If he arrests and imprisons the Gore man/boy/thing, I’ll vote for him for president.
(Really, it’ll be much much better than the Obamadork.)
Hang’em from the yardarm.
Greenpeace stated they should be allowed to disrupt anyone’s commercial business for IDEOLOGICAL REASONS without suffering consequences.
Guess a public hanging is a bit overboard......
hope they freeze their soft little fannies off.....should have been stopped a long time ago....
They should put Quad 50’s (or 14.5 MM if they wanna buy Ruskie)on their platforms.
Shoot them.
Good for the Russians. Send the Greenpeace idiots to Siberia to work in the mines. It will be the first useful work any of them will have ever done in their miserable lives. Cut their ship up and sell the scrap or the Russi9an Navy can expend it as a target.
The idiots deserve whatever they get.
These enviro nut jobs are learning the hard way that the Russians won’t put up with these antics like the Japanese have.
Heh. Hard heads have to feel. These psychos deserve what they get.
“saying it has a long history of nonviolent protest “
B.S. Greenpeace is GreenTerror. They are pirates and should have been left floating in the ocean.
I guess they are surprised that not every country is as accommodating as the USA. Send them to the Gulag in Siberia so that they can see the land they are trying to preserve.
The limp-wristed greens will learn a lesson, and go back to harassing US, Japanese, Swedish or Dutch vessels.
Putin knows well that he can say whatever he wants said, and have the court do whatever he wants done.
It can be believed that Greenpeace didn't plan to take ownership of the place and have the crew walk the plank. However technically they attempted boarding of a ship at sea against wishes of the crew in charge. If they were allowed to proceed, they could have attacked the crew or destroyed the equipment. When your ship is boarded by strangers you do not wait until they start killing to call them pirates. Greenpeace specializes in sabotage, not in killing, but that's not an excuse.
The crime has also occurred inside the exclusive economic zone of Russia, and within 3 miles around the platform that are closed to ship traffic without permission (for obvious safety reasons.) Greenpeace says they only used unflatables to get there. Just like the USS Cole bombers did. Putin already mentioned Kenya terrorists, and that makes plenty of sense. These days you do not allow hostile strangers closer than the range of effective fire.
I think Russia will confiscate the ship and slap everyone with some symbolic jail term (to the time served.) This will send a message to Greenpeace: "If you want to lose more ships, send them over. Our Coast Guard is always ready for a training exercise. If not, go and mess with Norway or any other peace-loving euro-pacifist country that will not even think of repelling you."
GOOD!
Let them rot in a Russian prison.
If the current administration more than ignored the cries for help from Benghazi, they certainly should not give any help to these destroyers!
I like Putin style to send environmentalists to the Gulag to cut trees down. I would even let them have a prayer service for each tree they murdered. It’s going to be a funny outcome if they do get sent to Siberia.
Looks like SOMEBODY knows how to deal with individuals who enter their country illegally...
(a) any illegal acts of violence or detention, or any act of depredation, committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or a private aircraft, and directed -Oil platforms are "property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any State". The Greenpeacers appear to have boarded the platform with the intent of interfering with the operation of the platform, in a way that would cause economic loss, which fits the definition of depredation as "damage or loss".(i) on the high seas, against another ship or aircraft, or against persons or property on board such ship or aircraft;
(ii) against a ship, aircraft, persons or property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any State;
Therefore, it appears that a case, under international law, can be made for them being engaged in piracy.
I love a story with a happy ending.