Hope the SEALs don’t get into any trouble - the FBI doesn’t like it when one of their crime scenes is disturbed.
As a good detective friend of mine said “ the FBI couldn't follow a menstruating elephant in a snow bank.”
the FBI doesn’t like it when one of their crime scenes is disturbed
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FOXNEWS just said the original ship is the FBI crime scene
With respect, don't go there. The Navy asked for the FBI negotiators. The Navy doesn't do that - they are trained to kill people and break things.
This and France's actions yesterday is going to send a HUGE message to these pirate "skinnies". It also shows the World we still have the ability to get things done.
But biggest KUDOS to Captain Phillips for offering himself as a hostage and having the daring to attempt escape TWICE! (although I'm not sure why he wasn't hog-tied after the first attempt. Stupid pirates). A genuine American hero!
I just don't have the words for how proud I am that we still have Heros in this nation.
...let alone all the liberal heads exploding about now! ...and insurance company instructions were clearly violated, tho the good captain followed instructions to the "t": "surrender peacefully and let the insurance personnel 'handle the situation'". Somali elders are writing their insurance 'situation handlers' as we speak! Soros is not pleased!
Was the FBI brought into this because some of the pirates may have been recruited in America?
You hit it Ben. The FBI had nobusiness even being there. Puracy is not a domestic crime in this case. Piracy is a separate category which is covered by the law of the apprehending nation, This would be military law in this case.
Obama sent the FBI in to establish the situation as a crime, so that military justice would not prevail. In that Obama was foiled by men who had the trigger pull, the traditional remedy for pirates.
Contrary to popular socialist belief, The UN Law of the Sea
DOES NOT replace the traditional International Law on Piracy.Piracy does not have to occur on the High Seas for the act to be treated as an act of war from a private individual or group, even though the UN Law of the Sea says so. The Old law is still in place, and that is that the victim nation can use both private and military acts of war to apprehend and punish pirates, without reference to any other national or international jurisdiction.The jurisdiction is universal.
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Universal Jurisdiction
Antonio Cassese, a leading jurist, asserted that the concept of universal jurisdiction is legally admissible. He further went on to explain that the crimes over which such jurisdiction may be exercised are of such gravity and magnitude that they warrant universal prosecution and repression. Although international law concerns itself with criminal jurisdiction, outside the sphere of international tribunals, it does not prescribe rules requiring the exercise of jurisdiction; rather it concerns itself mainly with the propriety of the exercises of state jurisdiction.
On this point, the 1934 analysis of “In Piracy Jure Gentium” states that: “With regard to crimes as defined by international law, that law has no means of trying or punishing them. The recognition of them as constituting crimes, and the trial and punishment of the criminals, are left to the municipal law of each country”. Piracy is then thought to be the basis of universal jurisdiction for what are termed “Jus Cogens” crimes. “Jus Cogens” is a Latin term that means a “compelling law”; and this fundamental law must be followed by all countries. The 1986 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties affirmed “Jus Cogens” as an accepted doctrine in international law.
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http://war-crimes.suite101.com/article.cfm/piracy_forced_creation_of_universal_jurisdiction
Obama wanted due process to apply to these pirates, and that is why the FBI was sent out. Look at what Holder is doing with the remaining juvenile pirate.Before its over Holder will have the pirate put up at the Waldorf on New York, dining on lobster tails. Its a darn good thing the Navy killed the other three, or they would have ended up on our welfare rolls , and later running guns from Chicago.
The FBI had no business being there, and did not have to be. They were there to help the pirates, not the hostage.