Posted on 04/03/2010 8:50:11 AM PDT by Zakeet
A U.S. Navy ship has sunk a pirate "mother ship" in the Indian Ocean and captured 11 pirates, and then promptly let them go.
It was the second time within 24 hours that U.S. forces captured Somali pirates. Earlier Thursday, five pirates were taken into custody after they attacked a U.S. warship.
While those five pirates remain in custody, the 11 captured Thursday were allowed to leave in small skiffs after the mother ship was sunk. The action prompted a Pentagon spokesman to deny that the Navy had a "catch and release" policy regarding pirates.
A Naval official told ABC News that the practice of releasing pirates is not unheard of. While piracy is illegal according to international maritime law, it is considered a criminal issue, not a national security one.
If the country of the attacked ship does not want to prosecute the pirates, and if Kenya, which has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Naval forces, does not agree to prosecute them, there are few options as to where the suspected pirates can be held and tried.
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So what would you Freepers have me do with my relatives ... bring them to New York for a show trial?
What would I do? Let them swim home...
Give them a lead life jacket first.
Hmm. Don’t capture them alive - problem solved.
Give them each a cement block to swim home with.
TV movie on the way...poor, undereducated Pirate adopted by a middle class white family...he then kills them in their sleep and takes all of their money and goes into the drug business big-time in LA...
Probably not, huh?
They should have at least tickled them.
What the Navy needs is more Yardarms
Is this a catch and release program?
Also, "They are merely redistributing the wealth."
NO! Put them on trial at sea and bury them at sea. Letting them go is a waste of good work.
Actions speak louder than words. They have a catch and release policy.
This will only encourage piracy. Why not, if the worse that happens is that you have to throw your ladders overboard if caught.
I am pretty sure we owe them a new mother ship —
just waiting for a US judge to make the official ruling.
I certainly hope the Navy has plenty of JAG officers on board so the pirates can fill out and file their torts against the US Government quickly and conveniently.
When you treat enemies better than friends you tend to end up with a lot more enemies.
TheNavy denies thay have a catch and release policy. They just catch them and release them. Why is that so hard to understand?
“So what would you Freepers have me do with my relatives “
Execute upon capture!!!!
Pirates catch and release too...
“Catch and release” the pirates.
The practice is not unheard of!!!!
Did we also reimburse them for sinking their ship - their only means of employment?
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