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2009-04-14 Africa Horn

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Posted by Steve White 2009-04-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Ummm, The US Supreme court sems to have forgotten the US part of their title.

YOU HAVE NO JURISDICTION TO PIRATES ON THE HIGH SEAS

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2009-04-14 04:50|| 2009-04-14 04:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Old enough to carry
Old enough to bury.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2009-04-14 06:53|| 2009-04-14 06:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Old enough to carry
Old enough to bury.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2009-04-14 06:54|| 2009-04-14 06:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Redneck, the "alleged piracy incident" occurred on a vessel with US registry. We do have jurisdiction (for now, until some judge in Europe decides we are being unreasonably harsh on the poor yute and goes after a random official in the DOJ).

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-04-14 07:27|| 2009-04-14 07:27|| Front Page Top

#5 The obvious solution is to turn him over to Kenya where they won't tie themselves into knots over the 'conundrums.' If the US legal system gets involved, millions of dollars will be wasted.

Posted by Odysseus 2009-04-14 09:42|| 2009-04-14 09:42|| Front Page Top

#6 "Untrained teenagers with heavy weapons," Gates told a group of students and faculty at the Marine Corps War College. "Everybody in the room knows the consequences of that."

Um, they sign a contract with a rap label?

Posted by Pappy 2009-04-14 09:55|| 2009-04-14 09:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Like the picture of the two pirates.

perhaps the poor "Yoot" can be induced to commit suicide in his cell. Used his dinner spoon, he did.

Shoved it right down his airway while he was eating. Choked to death. There was nothing we could do.
Presto. Buried him at sea, the refrigerator was too small, no autopsy. More tea?

Posted by Angleton9 2009-04-14 10:02|| 2009-04-14 10:02|| Front Page Top

#8 there needs to be a special view to his rehabilitation."

If rehabilitation means swinging from the yardarm then Im all for it.

Posted by DepotGuy 2009-04-14 11:17|| 2009-04-14 11:17|| Front Page Top

#9 "He would need to have access to family members. Throughout the whole process, there needs to be a special view to his rehabilitation," she added.

Geez, honey. It's not like he lit up a bag of dogshit and rang a doorbell. Why don't you adopt him?
So...Kenya or the US? Which do you think our young swashbuckler might pick?

Posted by tu3031 2009-04-14 13:44|| 2009-04-14 13:44|| Front Page Top

#10 You trying to tell me that 4 joyriding youths were bored, drove by a pirate cove, rented a vessel and satellite phone, closed on and boarded a ship in big water, fought for control and took hostages, issued a pirate in distress call, were untrained?!

Maybe the training is not to Marine Corp War College standards but I would guess that, with an employer's market, the pirates would field a crew who at least had basic rifle handling skills, especially so from Somalia, as well as ocean navigation and boarding techniques.

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-04-14 13:44|| 2009-04-14 13:44|| Front Page Top

#11 He needs to "escape" by diving into the sea with both achilles tendons cut and a couple of bleeding wounds. He can swim to Somalia - it's only about 250 miles from where they are. Some piece of him might make shore...

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-04-14 14:11|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-04-14 14:11|| Front Page Top

#12 C'mon, you guys. He's really a nice kid once you get to know him.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-04-14 16:37|| 2009-04-14 16:37|| Front Page Top

#13 I do not know what they will do with this pirate kid, but he was stabbed in the hand with an ice pick, beaten up by sailors, tied up for 12 hours, was bleeding all over the ship, and spent 5 days in an oven in a row boat. At a minimum, he is no good at piracy, he needs to take up another line of work. I am not sure the sailors will be safer, but the kid pirate will be safer.

Posted by whatadeal 2009-04-14 16:45|| 2009-04-14 16:45|| Front Page Top

#14 Since no good guys were killed or even seriously injured in this incident, what kind of sentence could he expect from a US court?

Come to think of it could the Alabama crew be in legal trouble for using disproportionate violence, or illegal imprisonment and extortion?

I wouldn't be surprised if this young pirate filed a civil suit for damages with the aid of some upstanding ~~ambulance chaser~~ lawyer.

A jury in Minnesota packed with his countrymen might be quite sympathetic...

Posted by Whineger Black9201 2009-04-14 17:05|| 2009-04-14 17:05|| Front Page Top

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