Pirates seize U.S. freighter, hold captain for ransom

[rory_20_uk]

Seamus:

My point was not that they have a right to piracy but that there may be other solutions instead of bloodshed, like actually giving the people in that country other ways to earn money.
What they are doing is certainly not right but they usually do not kill anyone, yet everybody here wants to see them dead, that seems quite a harsh punishment to me in relation to the crime.
a kidnapper on land would not be shot on sight either, or would she?

Rehabilitating everyone on the planet isn't economically possible.

They've chosen to break the law rather than sort out their cesspit of a country.

Call it a Darwin award or cleaning garbage, but the world is a slightly better place where they are fish food.

[Husar]

Rehabilitating everyone on the planet isn't economically possible.

They've chosen to break the law rather than sort out their cesspit of a country.

Call it a Darwin award or cleaning garbage, but the world is a slightly better place where they are fish food.

So you support the death penalty for thieves as well because they chose to become criminals rather than sorting out their cesspit of a life?

[Louis VI the Fat]

Just shoot them, you sissies. Third French attack on pirates, happening as we speak.

French hostages freed off Somalia

The families on board the Tanit were warned of the danger of pirate attacks
One French hostage has died and four others have been freed in a rescue operation by French troops on a yacht off Somalia, French officials say.

Two pirates were killed in the operation and three were captured, the French presidency said. Officials said the rescue was launched when talks with the pirates broke down and threats became "more specific".



"With the threats becoming more and more specific, the pirates refusing the offers made to them and the [yacht] heading towards the coast, an operation to free the hostages was decided upon," the president's spokesman said.

Mr Morin said his country had shown determination to oppose piracy.

"France has shown its determination not to give in to blackmail, [to] prosecute the criminal acts and liberate the hostages every time that a ship under a French flag is captured," he said.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Just shoot them, you sissies. Third French attack on pirates, happening as we speak.

Good for the French. Enough of this "buns up kneeling" to a bunch of criminals. Confront them, catch them, demand their surrender...prosecute them, and if you must, kill them. They're in the pirate business strictly for the money not to kill people or make a political statement, so stop making this crime pay so well. Eventually most will seek a new career choice.

[Tribesman]

Florent Lemacon and his wife Chloe were "repeatedly warned" not to travel through the area.

Yet they did .

"It is difficult to understand why these warnings were not heeded,"

No it isn't , look....

We don't want our child to receive the sort of education that the government is concocting for us.

...they didn't like what the government had to say about things so obviously they woudn't listen if the government told them not to do something .

So the question is .....

It is unclear whether Mr Lemacon was killed by his captors, or by a stray French bullet.

Whats the opinion ? A French bullet for being an idiot ?

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Rehabilitating everyone on the planet isn't economically possible.

They've chosen to break the law rather than sort out their cesspit of a country.

Call it a Darwin award or cleaning garbage, but the world is a slightly better place where they are fish food.

This is very true. They can help fix their own country and be part of the solution instead of the problem.

[Tribesman]

My God, Tribesman

Yes my son ?

Even if the fishing boats used to extend the range are more ambiguous these can be searched, and the smaller boats hundreds of miles off the coast with no other reason than banditry should be sunk.

The problem there is that you are talking about a vast area with thousands of ships/boats in it only a minute proportion of which are engaged in illegal stuff .
There are very few warships to cover that huge area (and they are not co-ordinated in their operations) . They cannot board and search all the vessels and they can't really identify the dodgy ones until they do something dodgy .
Plus of course as the EU and US naval forces have said , modern navigation aids are benefitting the pirates , they only have to bother watching for vessels they might want to attack and vessels they really want to avoid being anywhere near , while the navies have to watch everything that floats .