Pirates again

[stewey]

Just read that Dutch commandos freed a pirated ship along with its crew but had to let the pirates go as they could not arrest them under Dutch law!! Isn't piracy an International crime?

[rov1200]

Piracy in international waters means its no countries responsibility to tackle it. This is one professors report on how to solve the situation:

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Y2YyY WQ0ZTQwYjQzZTFiZGViMGUzZTZlOWY5ZDgxMTg=

[paraffin]

I've just seen a brief report about this. Nothing like deterring such behaviour, is there? And that's exactly what this idiotic law does: Nothing to deter such behaviour!

Now I know what kind of "profession" to go for during the Credit Crunch!

[rabbitygirl]

I read in the Times a couple of years ago that the seas in that area will eventually be no go areas because of uncontrolled piracy.

I have recently spoken to a couple who 'enjoyed' a cruise in that area. They were escorted by the US navy and then our own thru that areas seas.

[eltelioni]

Somalia has no government. So who is going to complain if these pirates are killed? They are attacking with RPGs, so I can see that it is justified. And it would be a much better deterrent than confiscating their weapons and letting them go free.

[tamborine]

no worse than the Council pirates who cleared up washed up tanker goods on british shores & kept the spoils.

[anotheoldgit]

High sea pirates cannot be arrested under Dutch law????????

Yet Music pirates are jailed.

[Leo-Bloom]

In times past pirates captured by the Royal Navy were taken back to a dock in London and there hanged.
We have forgotten, or put aside, much that was useful.