THIS IS BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE AFTER
COULD RACE, COLOR OR RELIGION BE PLAYING A ROLE IN THE CHANGE IN BEHAVIOR TOWARD THE POOR, DESPERATE, MISUNDERSTOOD MUSLIM SOMALI PIRATES??
PERISH THE THOUGHT!!
Posted on 04/11/2009 10:39:04 AM PDT by pissant
FBI agents are investigating the Somali pirates who hijacked a U.S. ship and are holding its captain hostage, U.S. officials said Saturday, raising the possibility of federal charges against the men if they are captured.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
This is what we can expect when we get attacked again.
Ummmm..., another “police action”.... LOL...
Actually, Obama should get the U.S. *out of there* and leave it to the other countries who “supported” the problem for years by paying ransoms to the pirates. Let the rest of the world take care of their own problems...
Get the U.S. out!
“World... take care of your own pirates!”
Darned, that cuts out the possibility these pukes will be allowed to swim ashore in sharkfilled waters.
Well, gee, didn’t Slick’s prosecutions from WTC #1 put an end to future threats?
THIS is what you get when you have LAWYERS running our lives.....and an incompetent, cowardly, traitorous (non) President.
Remember, 0bama no longer uses the terms terror, terrorism, War on Terror, or other appropriate terminology.
0bama is a traitor. 0bama is a sell-out to his Islamic brethren. 0bama is a direct threat to the US.
So he gets elected president...
Tell me our country isn’t messed up.
Its truly bizarroland out there.
Its only common sense that these pirates should never be brought to America under any circumstance.
I can see it now, we’ll have to give visas to the pirates family members so they can give aid to their relative in their time of need. And then, after they are acquitted on a technicality I guess they’ll stay.
There is a legal terminology (Latin) that is normally applied to high-seas pirates and thieving killers. It means “enemy of the world” or somethng to that effect. It also means that by international law, these thugs have no rights and can be delt with accordingly, i.e. no quarter, to Miranda rights, no habeus corpus etc. What is that terminology? I heard it on Rush the other day but did not have a chance to write it down. Why the ____ is this not being applied here?
Now that the FBI is involved, I guess we can expect that the “pirates” are protected by “rights” guaranteed to them under the U.S. Constitution. ROTFL! Now I know why Hillary was laughing. I find that absurd also but not quite as funny as she does.
THIS IS BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE AFTER
COULD RACE, COLOR OR RELIGION BE PLAYING A ROLE IN THE CHANGE IN BEHAVIOR TOWARD THE POOR, DESPERATE, MISUNDERSTOOD MUSLIM SOMALI PIRATES??
PERISH THE THOUGHT!!
Good Grief!!
Can you imagine Thomas Jefferson’s marines having to read the Barbary pirates their Miranda rights?
International waters - FBI? Investigation? The freakin’ pirates hijack two ships and the FBI is going to investigate? Investigate what? How Hussein is sending Easter greetings (to America according to him is non-Christian) but nothing about the hijacking? T. Jefferson would have already nuked their base ....
We don’t need no stinkin’ investigation.
I want pirate corpses floating in salt water.
The way to deal with these pirates is to tell them that if they harm Captain Phillips, they will be killed on the high seas. That if they release him, they will be towed to Somali waters. Then two them to the twelve mile limit, cut the two rope, and machine gun a dozen holes into the lifeboat and leave. Don’t shoot the pirates but let them either swim to shore or be eaten by the sharks or drown—which ever is, as they say, al-Lah’s will.
I have heard that they at least know the locations of some of the luxury homes owned by the pirates. Why not shell a few while they are waiting to resolve this? Good training for the gunners mates.
I think the latin term for “enemy of mankind” i.e., a person who has, by his actions, placed himself outside of the human race... is:
Hostis humani generis
The FBI investigating this is a waste of time. If B HO really wants to get tough, he needs to secure a United Nations Security Council Resolution condemning Piracy!
Yeah, that’ll teach them all!
Okay, sarcasm gone now.
“federal charges”
How freaking bizzarre. This occurred on the high seas in international waters. Kill them all and be done with it.
I can’t believe the stupidity coming out of this administration.
Obama's America
The World's Policeman
Leave the FBI to investigate congress.
There's not enough on Wall St for them to investigate?
FBI agents are investigating the Somali pirates who hijacked a U.S. ship and are holding its captain hostage
Investigating? Investigating what? Islamofacists/pirates/terrorists have attacked Nation flagged ocean vessels and held crew hostage and demanded ransome and fired on ships and generally behaved like the terrorist thy are.
Get them in the gunsite and pull the trigger. Screw that investigating crap......
LOL!!~ but also very sad....
Not mine, but from a Freeper who wrote it. I wish "Zero" would read it.
The FBI
Foolish Beyond Imagination
Are you suggesting that US-flagged ships should not transit the area? That they should travel around the Southern tip of Africa, rather than transit the Suez Canal?
After Obie's "law-enforcement" attempts fail miserably; I think they will have no other choice. Though, I suppose they could always pay tribute to the pirates.
the status of al Qaeda terrorists is to be found in a distinction first made by the Romans and subsequently incorporated into international law by way of medieval and early modern European jurisprudence.
the Romans distinguished between bellum - war against legitimus hostis, a legitimate enemy) and guerra - war against latrunculi - pirates, robbers, brigands and outlaws.
Bellum became the standard for interstate conflict, and it is here that the Geneva Conventions were meant to apply. They do not apply to guerra.
Indeed, punishment for latrunculi, “the common enemies of mankind,” traditionally has been summary execution.
Though they don't often employ the term, many legal experts agree that al Qaeda fighters are latrunculi — hardly distinguishable by their actions from pirates and the like.
Thus al Qaeda members “can be punished for all hostile acts, including the killing of soldiers, because they have no right to participate directly in hostilities.”
But the Obama administration is about to extend legal rights — intended to protect civilians — to the very latrunculi who want to blow them up by considering the possibility of trying them in U.S. courts.
Indeed, Attorney General Holder did not rule out trying the Somali pirates.
We can take care of our own ships... we don’t have to go protecting the rest of the world who created this problem from their paying off the pirates for years.
I don’t think the U.S. should be “bailing out” the world... LOL...
We’ve had enough “bailouts” for one administration, thank you...
This is from Wikapedia: “Perhaps the oldest of the laws of the sea is the prohibition of piracy, as the peril of being set upon by pirates, who are motivated by their own greed, rather than by national allegiance, is shared by the vessels and mariners of all nations, and thus represents a crime upon all nations;
as such, since the time of the Ancient Romans, pirates have been held to be individuals waging a private warfare, a private campaign of sack and pillage, against not only their victims, but against all nations,
and thus, pirates hold the peculiar status of being regarded as “hostis humani generis”, the enemies of mankind.
Since piracy anywhere is a peril to every mariner and ship everywhere, it is held to be the universal right and the universal duty of all nations, regardless of whether their ships have been beset by the particular pirate captured, to capture, try, and either execute (which is the traditional custom of the sea) or otherwise suppress the pirate, such as by imprisonment.”
Thanks!
I’m sure that captain that is held hostage will be glad to know his captors with a gun to his head are being investigated.
This is the biggest pussy President EVER. Even beyond Jimmy Carter. Forgive my language, but he is ridiculous.
I thought for sure this was the Onion. I still can’t believe it’s serious.
Can you believe this? I am appalled.
“latrunculi” and “hostis humani generis” certainly should apply to al quaida terrorists, et al, and somali pirates. Summary execution is warranted and justifiable. But this president has no b—ls. Weakness begets trouble. The begetting has commenced in full array.
So when do they send in the flame throwers?/
Cicero said it better:
"Inter arma enim silent leges" (Between armies the laws are silent).
Pirates? That’s what RPGs are for!
World law ....?
Thanks for the useful info.
It’s enough to kill pirates on the high seas. They will keep coming back. Entire pirate villages need to be carpet bombed.
Next we will be sicking our lawyers on them and having John Kerry Nuance them into submission.
Next headline: Somali Pirates’ “Assault Weapons” illegally smuggled from the US
Obama wants to reduce our nuclear arsenal. I would suggest dropping one on Mogadishu and the pirate’s port cities would help him with his plan...and the fact that the fallout will rain upon the Saudi Red Sea coast would be a benefit to the rest of the world.
Oops.. I meant it’s NOT enough to keep pirates on high seas..
There are lots of good places to drop nukes on around the world. In fact I could probably name more places than there are nukes in our arsenal - which means we will have to be judicious in our choice of targets !
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