Somali pirates attack wrong ship

Excellent news Chaps!

Navy - 1.
Pirates - 0.

I like that scoreboard!!

This is just an excuse for Barry to go to Somolia to apologize for the US actions....

perimedik said:

Easter time is upon us, maybe they forgot

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...from only 30 meters away...

Jeez.... Did anyone else read all of this???..... "19 pirates.... released after contacting somali authorities" "...released..."

WTF? I think they should just sink the boats and go on with business...

the Vulcan Phalanx would take care of things

any thing to do is better than the last one who is still here in NY living low on the tax payers dime  (many dimes)

I do not get what the problem is for law enforcement.  Piracy has been always punishable by death.  The laws are still on the books.  Any country can prosecute any pirate under International law.  Proof is not hard to get.  Just hand them over to a country like Saudi Arabia or China who will be happy to execute them.  Why does Kenya or the US have to take the burden of prosecution when rendition to China is legal and easy to do?

ligun said:

I do not get what the problem is for law enforcement. Piracy has been always punishable by death. The laws are still on the books. Any country can prosecute any pirate under International law. Proof is not hard to get. Just hand them over to a country like Saudi Arabia or China who will be happy to execute them. Why does Kenya or the US have to take the burden of prosecution when rendition to China is legal and easy to do?

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Preach on brother! lol

ligun said:

I do not get what the problem is for law enforcement. Piracy has been always punishable by death. The laws are still on the books. Any country can prosecute any pirate under International law. Proof is not hard to get. Just hand them over to a country like Saudi Arabia or China who will be happy to execute them. Why does Kenya or the US have to take the burden of prosecution when rendition to China is legal and easy to do?

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Because we have live and abide by a legal standard that says the guilty must be proven guilty, and we don't turn people over to foreign governments who will execute them rathet than try them. At least, we are not supposed to. Romanian torture camps apparently notwithstanding, anyway.

I am perfectly fine with my tax dollars paying to prosecute offenders legally, knowing that by the same token I would be tried rather than summarily dragged off and murdered on suspicion of a crime, the cost of the system is that it makes punishing the guilty more challenging, and occasionally fails to protect the innocent. But it is a hell of a lot better than living in China or Saudi Arabia or Yemen, I assure you.

Tonto said:

This is just an excuse for Barry to go to Somolia to apologize for the US actions....

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LMAO this is why I love this site. BamBam has nothing to do with these pirates but his name always comes up.