 merrie says: Severe as the penalty may now seem (albeit necessary, since captured pirates were too dangerous to keep aboard on lengthy sea voyages), it succeeded in mostly eliminating piracy by the late 19th century -- a civilizational achievement no less great than the elimination of smallpox a century later. Today, by contrast, a Navy captain who takes captured pirates aboard his state-of-the-art warship will have a brig in which to keep them securely detained, and instantaneous communications through which he can obtain higher guidance and observe the rule of law. Yet what ought to be a triumph for both justice and security has turned out closer to the opposite. Instead of greater security, we get the deteriorating situation described above.And in pursuit of a better form of justice -- chiefly defined nowadays as keeping a clear conscience -- we get (at best) a Kenyan jail. "We're humane warriors," says one U.S. Navy officer. "When the pirates put down their RPGs and raise their hands, we take them alive. And that's a lot tougher than taking bodies." Piracy, of course, is hardly the only form of barbarism at work today: There are the suicide bombers on Israeli buses, the stonings of Iranian women, and so on. But piracy is certainly the most primordial of them, and our collective inability to deal with it says much about how far we've regressed in the pursuit of what is mistakenly thought of as a more humane policy. A society that erases the memory of how it overcame barbarism in the past inevitably loses sight of the meaning of civilization, and the means of s... Amen, Shoot to Kill. Arm the ships and stop them once and for all. Being a nice guy just doesn't work. What country is going to have the trial, what country is going to jail them? There are also pirates operating out of Asian countries. Not annoying the rich yet so nothing much is said about them. — Comment removed by clipper — To those of you who have nothing else in your lives other than trolling the internet and depositing your inane remarks that attest to your disturbing states of mind, your comments will be deleted. Hang 'em - it's not that they could be innocent, armed and boarding or attempting to board vessels at sea, so hang 'em. And let's add members of congress to the ok to hang list. Congressmen who use their position for personal gain are not unlike pirates, they seek taxpayer booty only on a much larger scale, making these pirates look like amateurs. Pirates use guns to commit their thievery, politicians use legislation. politicians use legislation . . . politicians are turning our economic system into an oligarchy. They should be charged and tried for conspiracy to commit fraud and extortion. (RICO) Discovering all the liberal tax cheats in congress makes a clear case for fraud. |
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