Posted on 04/10/2009 1:09:20 PM PDT by givemELL
Edited on 04/10/2009 1:10:46 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON (AP) - "but as a matter of law, it's more like the aftermath of a bank robbery gone bad."
"Whether a U.S. citizen is taken hostage at a downtown bank branch or on the high seas, federal authorities can claim the authority to capture suspects and prosecute them in U.S. courts."
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...
What would Thomas Jefferson do?
The incident ought to conclude with a gurgling sound coming from Davey Jones’ locker.
Wow, take them to court. Bet they are scared!
Oh that’s great. Sue the pirates in court. Marvelous.
Agreed. I suspect that this is the result Obama has been negotiating for behind the scenes.
What part of “pirates” doesn’t the AP understand? Take them to court??? This PC culture is gonna get us all killed someday.
Yes, like Clinton, Obama views this as a law enforcement issue. Very sad. This should have been resolved swiftly. Now the government lawyers will get involved.
They’ll get a very expensive legal defense team paid for by you and I. Figure it out.
Think the FBI agents are seasick?
Yep. The American crew will be charged with the death of the pirates that were killed and/or thrown overboard. If not a criminal case, a cival case by some low life lawyers.
Leastwise that's what he did.
Obama will just keep piling warships up until the lifeboat is surrounded. There is no idea what he will do beyond that.
Maritime piracy and other violence at sea...(here)...
http://books.google.com/books?id=0QHV5rH9TiAC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=juris+piracy+of+the+seas&source=bl&ots=SrsEwh4sZT&sig=JPlXgRmlOHlVm-i9S-hCe6XDriI&hl=en&ei=B6nfSaTvFqj0nQft4o2iCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3#PPA1,M1
Ahhh...Yesss...of course..a COURT...the PROPER venue for an Ivy League poofter to demonstrate their mastery of men and their enemies...no messy guns, boats, dirty ammunition, cold wet..etc...
Obama will send in a SEAL team to serve them warrants and Halal Happy Meals.
But who would have ‘standing’ ?
Is there any chance we can keelhaul the AP idiot MATT APUZZO who wrote this twaddle?
Back to treating terrorists as common criminals. The Clinton regime is baaaaaack!
Thanks for the link. Senate to consider Law of the Sea Treaty again. Another impending disaster.
What would Putin do?
Absolutely. Toast the Chickens of the Sea with firepower. Scorched water bump. Screw the UNaccountable bureaucrats.
If true, don’t bother. Our lib-O-Dumb judges will set ‘em free anyway. Better to spend the monies on ACORN fake voters, Chicago corruption, or new dresses for the Obamaloon wife.
Wow, I feel safer already. Now I don’t have to worry about pirates stealing ships, endangering the lives of people, and asking for enormous ransoms. The courts will take care of it.
And can the ACLU and Legal Aid represent them?
And don't forget the UN. I'm sure they'll pass a resolution stating how "disappointed" they are in the Somali terrorists.
That might make someone feel bad. Can't have that.
I want to know why a SEAL team hasn't already resolved this.
The French commandos at least gave it a shot at their pirate situation, though it's unclear exactly how one civilian died.
Omelets...
This crap will continue until some country’s navy has the balls to try these pirates on board their ship in international waters, hang them by the necks until dead and then throw their carcasses overboard.
Well gee, I bet the captain feels a WHOLE lot better now, huh? One of our leftists courts will try the pirates. Of course, Hussein will have to capture them first. Then ACLU attorneys will provide their defense. Isn’t it a warm feeling, knowing lawyers run the world!!
Nope, keel haul them, then let the bodies float up on Somali shores.
Watch, they will be tried in international court, It will go fantastically well, all will praise the wisdom and outcome of this messianic body, and so we see one of the many births of the New World Order! Setup?
Here’s a comparison of other Presidential Crises, with hostage-taking and military/civilians killed (various actions against our civilians and/or actions that we took in response to such crises. It’s a good comparison for what is going on today, as to what has happened in the past with other Presidents...
Presidential Crises - Hostages and/or Killings of Military and Civilians
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Johnson — Killed (34), USS Liberty, Israel
Johnson — Hostages (82/1 Killed), USS Pueblo, 11 months, North Korea
Ford — Hostages (21), SS Mayaguez, Cambodia
Carter — Hostages (52), 444 days, Iran
Carter — Killed (8), Operation Eagle Claw, C-130, Iran
Reagan — Killed (241), Marine barracks bombing, Lebanon/Iran
Reagan — Hostages (6), Islamic Terrorists, Lebanon/Iran
Clinton — Killed (19), Black Hawk Down, Somalia
Bush — Hostages (24), Hainan Island incident (EP-3 Aries), 11 days, China
Bush — Killed (2,998), 9/11 Attack, Islamic Terrorists
Obama — Hostages (1), Somalian pirates, ongoing currently...
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Johnson — USS Liberty Incident - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
Johnson — USS Pueblo Incident - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pueblo_(AGER-2)
Ford — SS Mayaguez Incident - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayagüez_incident
Carter — Iranian Hostage Crisis - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis
Carter — Operation Eagle Claw (rescue) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw
Reagan — Marine Barracks bombing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombing
Reagan — Hostages in Lebanon - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
Clinton — Black Hawk Down - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mogadishu_(1993)
Bush — Hainan Island incident - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident
Bush — 9/11 Attack - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11
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Please help add more so I can update this. If there is another event that happened within a particular President’s term (hostages taken, military killed in actions regarding the crisis, etc...), give me the info and any pertinent links.
Jefferson must have got it right because we haven’t had a pirate attack in 200 years.
Anybody who starts talking about working with the international community when stuff like this happens is a whuss.
A lot of people on FR dinegrate the French military but they take action to prtect their people.
The Communist in Cheif isn’t up to it.
At the end of the day, fork over the moeny just like he did. (Oh, yes he did!)
See: 
The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson,
the First Marines, and the Secret
Mission of 1805
“I want to know why a SEAL team hasn't already resolved this.
The French commandos at least gave it a shot at their pirate situation, though it's unclear exactly how one civilian died.
Omelets...”
I know it seems like a situation designed for the Seals!
“This PC culture is gonna get us all killed someday.”
The sheriff in my county says that all the time. I like him. Alot.
Virginians?? I thought it was 72 Vegans??....who knew??
An emergency meeting of the UN’s security council should be called immediately.
This piracy crap has to stop and there needs to be a very strong resolution passed to send a message of the seriousness of this situation. Failure to stop these illegal actions may result in serious consequences. /s
A SEAL team would have been in and out with the hostage and the pirates would not have even known what hit them. This should have been over already.
Well, I don’t know what Jefferson would have done, but Andrew Jackson would have killed them already and brought the captain home.
I agree a sternly written, very sternly written UN resolution, or two, or thirteen, will solve the problem quickly. Those nasty conservative bloodlust run hot . /s
The cowardly 0bama administration has told the navy not to hurt the pirates and will surely pay any money and suffer any humiliation required. I can just envision 0bama bowing at the waist to the pirate king.
From Andre Pachter today: http://chinaconfidential.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-tested-by-3-hostage-crises.html#links
“As of this writing, U.S. President Barack Obama is facing three simultaneous hostage crises—and showing weakness on all fronts.
Two American reporters are being held in North Korea.
An Iranian-American journalist is being held in Iran.
And an American merchant marine captain is being held—by Muslim pirates—off the coast of Somalia.
All this is being played out in the wake of the President’s unprecedented bow to the King of Saudi Arabia—a deep, submissive bow from the waist, captured by video and still cameras but initially ignored by the mainstream media.
Not since the catastrophic Carter administration, which betrayed Iran’s Shah, allowed Americans to be taken and held hostage in Tehran—and allowed an Iranian-controlled, ideologically-motivated, American hit man, an African-American convert to Islam, to escape the U.S. after gunning down a former Iranian diplomat in the doorway of his Bethesda, MD suburban home—has the U.S. appeared so helpless and vulnerable in the face of foreign aggression.
Not since the 1930s has the world seen such appeasement, experienced such economic and financial turmoil. Back then, the U.S. was led by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Confined to a wheelchair, he beat the Axis and the Great Depression.
Is Barack Hussein Obama capable of defeating the Great Recession and the Axis of Nuclear Evil? Extremely doubtful. BHO is no FDR.”
Small Claims Courts were set up to deal with exactly such situations. That’s why we sent FBI lawyers on the scene. Is Judge Judy available?
He's shown exactly the sort of weakness his Leftwingtard followers and syncophants think so exemplary.
Before this is over I fear this nation is going to have to drive the Leftwingtards into the sea.
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