Well done Seamus , so bloody obvious it makes you wonder why some people think that guns in that situation would be any help at all . Since in most of these cases the boarding isn't noticed until after it has happened it is a hostage situation , and the last thing anyone needs in a hostage situation is some idiot playing rambo .Because then people would get killed.
Deaths can be expensive very expensive , plus its a big legal minefield , corporations would rather pay the excess insurance and pass the costs on than risk the legal penalties .I can understand maybe the seamens union and several of the smaller players.... but i would have thought the big companies would rather a few deaths and a lot less piracy... or do they think this would cause more financial loss ?
I have trouble accepting a multi national corporation would worry about a few deaths...
Its a legal minefield because it has to comply with all the laws of a territory any time it is in territorial waters , and it has to comply with all the laws in the nation that it is registered in (plus the laws of the charter nation if it is under contract) plus of course it has to comply with international law.
Now of course some muppet might say "international law pffft" which would be a bit silly because if international law is pfffft then piracy is not illegal and these pirates are doing nothing wrong
What healthy authority???????These funds go toward financing extremism and the destabilization of healthy authority in Somalia.
The healthiest authority Somalia has had for years was financed by local businessmen to cut down on crime and your government overthrew it by paying ethiopia to invade and putting the tribal criminal warlords back in power , a power they are now losing to some real nasty extremists .
You seem to get nearly all your details backwards Tuff .
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