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2008-04-14 Britain

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Posted by Cromert 2008-04-14 00:37|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 A Foreign Office spokesman said: There are issues about human rights and what might happen in these circumstances. The main thing is to ensure any incident is resolved peacefully.

HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa!

These Human Rights foamers and droolers are SO funny. Time to start hunting them down and making them go away.

Posted by Vespasian Ebbairong5632 2008-04-14 01:18|| 2008-04-14 01:18|| Front Page Top

#2 The sun has officially set on the British Empire.

Pirates should be decorating the yardarms. Not granted asylum and, no doubt, a government 'welfare' check.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-04-14 01:28|| 2008-04-14 01:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Britain's laws have become asinine. Shouldn't be much longer now.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-04-14 01:36|| 2008-04-14 01:36|| Front Page Top

#4 What i do not understand is why the Brit foreign office is discriminating against aircraft hijackers and suicide bombers. They, too, must face persecution if turned back over to their national authorities.

For that matter, bank robbers should be granted asylum - under these standards

The UK has already made a laughingstock out of its domestic policy. 'Talk about hitting bottom, and continuing to dig .......

Posted by Lone Ranger 2008-04-14 02:08|| 2008-04-14 02:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Pirates can claim UK asylum

To improve the Royal gene pool.

Posted by RD">RD 2008-04-14 03:40|| 2008-04-14 03:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Every American should say prayer for George Washington and Thomas Jefferson at least once a day.

I will do the same for Joan of Arc.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-04-14 05:19|| 2008-04-14 05:19|| Front Page Top

#7 I prefer the "Deep 6" method for dealing with pirates. I hope the British just stay the hell out of the way in Somali waters and don't try to "help" too much.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-04-14 07:24|| 2008-04-14 07:24|| Front Page Top

#8 By the powers !
Move along ya lily livered landlubbers ! We have come to ply the sweet trade to your foamy waters. Us sea dogs will adapt to terra firma very well , especially with your amazing state benefits !

Posted by Spash Lumumba2608 2008-04-14 07:26|| 2008-04-14 07:26|| Front Page Top

#9 I can see it now. The Royal Navy retreating at flank speed chased by pirates trying to surrender.

Posted by ed 2008-04-14 07:48|| 2008-04-14 07:48|| Front Page Top

#10 With rules like this, who needs a navy?

Posted by Spot">Spot 2008-04-14 08:02|| 2008-04-14 08:02|| Front Page Top

#11 Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
We pillage, we plunder, we rifle, and loot,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot,
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
We extort, we pilfer, we filch, and sack,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
Maraud and embezzle, and even high-jack,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
We kindle and char, inflame and ignite,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
We burn up the city, we're really a fright,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.

We're rascals, scoundrels, villans, and knaves,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
We're devils and black sheep, really bad eggs,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
We're beggars and blighters, ne'er-do-well cads,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
Aye, but we're loved by our mommies and dads,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
We'll ask for asylum, lay our guns down,
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.
We'll live on welfare in London-town,
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho!

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2008-04-14 08:13|| 2008-04-14 08:13|| Front Page Top

#12 Directions seem clear to me: Pirates should be sunk and left in the water.

Posted by RWV 2008-04-14 08:35|| 2008-04-14 08:35|| Front Page Top

#13 Oviously the F.O. needs time off - finding 'human rights' for all and sundry is hard work.

Might I suggest a nice, long cruise? Say, off eastern Africa?

Posted by Pappy 2008-04-14 09:08|| 2008-04-14 09:08|| Front Page Top

#14 Britain will be a 3rd world nation in 20 years keeping shit like this going.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-04-14 09:11|| 2008-04-14 09:11|| Front Page Top

#15 So I would take this to mean that the Foreign Office sees the human rights of pirates as more important then the human rights of their victims and potential victims?
Isn't that a nice message to send...

Posted by tu3031 2008-04-14 09:13|| 2008-04-14 09:13|| Front Page Top

#16 #10: With rules like this, who needs a navy?

Their navy is underfunded and under-equipped. There are many pro-EUers who want to encourage the trend of destroying the UK's individual military capability. They've come close to achieving their goals already and this sort of EUish crap is one more evidence that they will succeed unless there is strong pushback from British citizens.

Posted by lotp 2008-04-14 09:16|| 2008-04-14 09:16|| Front Page Top

#17 The RN is deconstructing faster than the USN. In a decade, it will be two half finished aircraft carriers in French dockyards that even the Indians won't want to take off their hands.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-04-14 09:29|| 2008-04-14 09:29|| Front Page Top

#18 Warships patrolling pirate-infested waters, such as those off Somalia, have been warned that there is also a risk that captured pirates could claim asylum in Britain.

Not if we hang their asses first.

Posted by Chief Running Gag">Chief Running Gag 2008-04-14 11:06|| 2008-04-14 11:06|| Front Page Top

#19 Their navy is underfunded and under-equipped. There are many pro-EUers who want to encourage the trend of destroying the UK's individual military capability.

It is still more under-equipped because UK's Armed Forces have been forced to buy their hardware for purely EU-political reasons: ie buy European weapons even when there is a much cheaper andor much more capable equivalent but with the original sin of being american. I have read several well documented examples about this.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-04-14 11:19|| 2008-04-14 11:19|| Front Page Top

#20
The Foreign Office has advised that pirates sent back to Somalia could have their human rights breached because, under Islamic law, they face beheading for murder or having a hand chopped off for theft.

Yeah, but sharia law is comung to the UK anyway, so what's the big deal?

Posted by charger 2008-04-14 11:55|| 2008-04-14 11:55|| Front Page Top

#21 Warships patrolling pirate-infested waters, such as those off Somalia, have been warned that there is also a risk that captured pirates could claim asylum in Britain.
Maybe the Foreign Office has been studying the case of the Chinese Uighurs.

For the Chinese Uighurs (pronounced WEE-gurs ), there is no end in sight. About 20 countries -- including Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Turkey and a Latin American country -- have turned down U.S. overtures to give them asylum, according to U.S. officials.

The State Department says it is still working behind the scenes to find the Uighurs a home. A senior official called their situation "unfortunate."

This month, lawyers and human rights groups appealed to the United States to take in the stranded Uighurs. "It's not like these people were once considered to be a threat and now are not," said Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch. "These people need to be released, either in another country or the U.S. They're America's responsibility."

Posted by tipper 2008-04-14 12:13|| 2008-04-14 12:13|| Front Page Top

#22 Sorry omitted link: Chinese Uighurs.

Posted by tipper 2008-04-14 12:18|| 2008-04-14 12:18|| Front Page Top

#23 JFM : I have read several well documented examples about this.

The EU referendum blog often writes about this.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-04-14 12:47|| 2008-04-14 12:47|| Front Page Top

#24 Is belonging to an asocial group or criminal enterprise a requirement for British citizenship nowadays?

Posted by SteveS 2008-04-14 12:54|| 2008-04-14 12:54|| Front Page Top

#25 Why is that a surprise? Remember the awesome support that was afforded their own Sailors when the Iranians hijacked their boat a couple months back?
it seems to me that the EU has a rule that only one country at a time can show any balls, and since it now seems the French are doing so, all others have to quit.

Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-04-14 14:11|| 2008-04-14 14:11|| Front Page Top

#26 What? Only one set of balls to loan around?

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-04-14 23:02|| 2008-04-14 23:02|| Front Page Top

#27 There's a tried and true pirate disposal method, over the side with a cannon ball tied to their feet, been used around 800 years or so, only problem now would be getting a foundry to cast a new run of cannon balls, we're quite out right now.

Maybe with a cast on loop for the ropes?

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-04-14 23:09|| 2008-04-14 23:09|| Front Page Top

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