04-21-2009, 01:31 PM
Quote:Amen!
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My money is on Number 1. The only reason they are doing it is it is easy money. Send in the carriers and the napalm.
Yeah that seems liek a great idea. There are marine ships of many countries patrolling the area, what if they see a vessel from some country they don't like? Destroy it and later tell everybody that they were pirates? Let's keep the discussion realistic.
I do see that there are major problems however. A dutch ship captured to pirate boats last week, and both times that had to release the pirates (and it was clear they were guilty) because there was no legal way they could hold them.
The international community should now hurry and decide on some laws that make it possible that these people can be captured and then trialed. But what to do then? You can't put them in prison in Somalia (to unstable) and if you put them in prison a few years in a western country they will probably try to stay there illegaly after they are released......for these people western type prisons are an improvement compared to their normal living standards.