Posted on 06/17/2014 4:08:48 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
The failed prosecution of an alleged Somali pirate — and the fact that that failure could leave him living freely, and permanently, inside U.S. borders — is highlighting anew the risks of trying terror suspects in American courts.
Just a few weeks ago, Ali Mohamed Ali was facing the possibility of a mandatory life sentence in a 2008 shipjacking off the coast of Yemen — an incident much like the one dramatized in the film “Captain Phillips.” Now, the Somali native is in immigration detention in Virginia and seeking permanent asylum in the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at dyn.politico.com ...
The basic argument in the legal case was that the Somali pirates who were arrested and brought here to stand trial were engaged in something -- namely, firing on a U.S. Navy vessel -- that didn't meet any legal definition of "piracy" under U.S. law.
I have to go back and find that old thread and give that guy credit. He sure got this one right!
I don’t see what it was that got him off with the jury. The article doesn’t seem to explain it.
But at any rate, that is our system and that’s what a jury is for - to decide such things.
Funny. So they made a deal with this dude that he would get off and be allowed to stay in the US if he would come here and say that the evil video made him do it.
This is so humiliating. Russia puts pirates in a raft in the middle of the ocean. We bring them back and give them a fair trial, and let them stay to live off Welfare if they are found not guilty. We are on a national suicide mission.
Stimson said. “The litigation milieu has changed. … We’re in a much different place. I can envision someone brought to the U.S. to stand trial being acquitted and then being granted asylum.”
“Live freely”, procreate and give our gene pool a beating.
It may not meet the legal definition of piracy, but it certainly meets the definition of "illegal combatant", for which the remedy is "Rule 303".
Right — and that was the strange legal conclusion we reached on that prior thread. If a bunch of mutants in a boat fires on a U.S. Navy vessel, the proper course of action is to sink the bastards, not arrest them.
Our problem is that we take prisoners of terrorists. Should not happen. Would never have happened during the first 150 years of our existance. And that’s about when we started losing every war we got in.
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