Gaza Flotilla (Mavi Marmara) Crew Might be Felons under U.S. Law

IsraPundit ^ | 6/5/10 | Bill Levinson

[Winged Hussar]

Try disobeying (let alone attacking) the U.S. Coast Guard and see what happens to you.

We will let U.S. Code Title 18 (Crimes) speak for itself on the behavior of personnel aboard the Mavi Marmara when it was boarded by Israeli security personnel. Here is what might have happened to them had they done what they did with the U.S. Coast Guard.

§ 2237. Criminal sanctions for failure to heave to, obstruction of boarding, or providing false information

(1) It shall be unlawful for the master, operator, or person in charge of a vessel of the United States, or a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, to knowingly fail to obey an order by an authorized Federal law enforcement officer to heave to [stop] that vessel. [The Mavi Marmara ignored repeated orders to stop.] (2) It shall be unlawful for any person on board a vessel of the United States, or a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, to— (A) forcibly resist, oppose, prevent, impede, intimidate, or interfere with a boarding or other law enforcement action authorized by any Federal law or to resist a lawful arrest; or [which the Mari Marmara's personnel did] (B) provide materially false information to a Federal law enforcement officer during a boarding of a vessel regarding the vessel’s destination, origin, ownership, registration, nationality, cargo, or crew. (b) Any person who intentionally violates this section shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both. [A crime punishable by 5 years is a felony.]

[Winged Hussar]

§ 111. Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees

(a) In General.— Whoever— (1) forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any person designated in section 1114 of this title while engaged in or on account of the performance of official duties; or (2) forcibly assaults or intimidates any person who formerly served as a person designated in section 1114 on account of the performance of official duties during such person’s term of service, shall, where the acts in violation of this section constitute only simple assault, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both, and where such acts involve physical contact with the victim of that assault or the intent to commit another felony, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 8 years, or both. (b) Enhanced Penalty.— Whoever, in the commission of any acts described in subsection (a), uses a deadly or dangerous weapon (including a weapon intended to cause death or danger but that fails to do so by reason of a defective component) or inflicts bodily injury, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.

[marron]

The next time out they need to jail the captain, and seize the ship.

Ships are expensive.

Its probably pretty easy to put a mob together. Its not so easy to get ship owners to sacrifice a ship worth millions. Won’t happen very many times.

[LeoWindhorse]

indict Ann Wright !

yeah , right.....

[VRWC For Truth]

ROFL, the DOJ won’t even round up the illegals. Just torpedo the dang boat and be done with it. Lawyers can’t defend the dead.

[hadit2here]

I said on another post, right after the original flotilla was boarded and the commandos beaten— tell the captain of the ship that they will be boarded and that if there is ANY resistance or violence, the ship will be sunk. Then, if there’s any resistance or violence, SINK THE SHIP, no matter who’s on it.

The only way to make it work is to make it economically unfeasible for anyone with major assets to provide those assets to the terrorists. One ship sunk will quickly bring an end to anyone wanting to provide ships for the pali’s or their friends/sympathizers.

The only thing that mooslimes understand is superior violence. You can’t treat them nice as they consider that a sign of weakness. Kill all the terrorists, then kill their families. Then kill their families’ families. The terrorism would stop immediately. Until that’s done, nothing will change.

[Bean Counter]

[seastay]

only if they are not comming from port tijuana.

[hennie pennie]

*ping*

[Ann Archy]

Two ANTI-SEMITES having Cupcakes together...how nice!!