Should Pirates on the High Seas Be Taken Back to the Country of Origin for a Trial?
There seems to be a bit of debate around the world as to what to do with the Somalia Pirates which are captured while trying to boat-jack a ship, or vessel on the high-seas.
As you know if anyone attempts to resist these bad guys they use RPGs, and AK-47s on them, thus, these pirates are murderers in many regards.
Now then, depending on which vessel of which country's Navy intercepts these pirates, they go about the issue of justice differently.
If the Chinese catch the pirates, they merely eliminate them, leave them for shark food you could say - the proverbial burial at sea so to speak.
Other nations like India's Navy capture the pirates and put them into prison awaiting trial, unfortunately, India now has 100 Somalia Pirates detained and has not brought them to trial yet.
Okay so, what should they do with them? And if found guilty is it a capital offense in India? Firing squad, I mean what is the penalty.
Many world organizations are calling for a common and standard way of dealing with justice, and once agreed upon, every Navy would do the same thing when they catch the pirates.
Now then, I am not a socialist or communist, I don't believe that the "group think" makes sense in this case, and an international "team effort" is the correct way to play it in defending against pirates, but is it the right way to go about serving justice? Yes, sometimes it "might be" but usually it isn't.
Should we take these pirates back to their own county and allow them to carry out the justice there? Well, hard to say, after all, they may just line them up after a 5-minute trial as a formality and execute them, but what if one of them is not guilty, just along for the ride, or coerced or something like that, then they too would be dealt a blow even in their quasi-innocence.
We also know that we cannot trust nations with corrupt governments to have legitimate courts.
Thus, the worst offenders would merely buy their freedom, and the courts for pirates would be forever compromised.
Okay so, consider this; if someone is caught as a pirate on the high-seas, they committed that crime outside their country, that's where the court should take place, on a Naval ship and if found guilty the penalty is death, and then dispose of them.
There's nothing wrong with that.
Many of these pirates kill anyone who resists, they come aboard private and company vehicles with automatic weapons.
They are killers.
We cannot build trust with un-trustworthy people, they are humans, inherently untrustworthy anyway, and throw in a culture which operates like Ferenges, and what do you have? So, we have a problem here, one which I don't believe can be solved by socialist-neo-liberal thinkers, or amnesty international.
Please consider all this.
As you know if anyone attempts to resist these bad guys they use RPGs, and AK-47s on them, thus, these pirates are murderers in many regards.
Now then, depending on which vessel of which country's Navy intercepts these pirates, they go about the issue of justice differently.
If the Chinese catch the pirates, they merely eliminate them, leave them for shark food you could say - the proverbial burial at sea so to speak.
Other nations like India's Navy capture the pirates and put them into prison awaiting trial, unfortunately, India now has 100 Somalia Pirates detained and has not brought them to trial yet.
Okay so, what should they do with them? And if found guilty is it a capital offense in India? Firing squad, I mean what is the penalty.
Many world organizations are calling for a common and standard way of dealing with justice, and once agreed upon, every Navy would do the same thing when they catch the pirates.
Now then, I am not a socialist or communist, I don't believe that the "group think" makes sense in this case, and an international "team effort" is the correct way to play it in defending against pirates, but is it the right way to go about serving justice? Yes, sometimes it "might be" but usually it isn't.
Should we take these pirates back to their own county and allow them to carry out the justice there? Well, hard to say, after all, they may just line them up after a 5-minute trial as a formality and execute them, but what if one of them is not guilty, just along for the ride, or coerced or something like that, then they too would be dealt a blow even in their quasi-innocence.
We also know that we cannot trust nations with corrupt governments to have legitimate courts.
Thus, the worst offenders would merely buy their freedom, and the courts for pirates would be forever compromised.
Okay so, consider this; if someone is caught as a pirate on the high-seas, they committed that crime outside their country, that's where the court should take place, on a Naval ship and if found guilty the penalty is death, and then dispose of them.
There's nothing wrong with that.
Many of these pirates kill anyone who resists, they come aboard private and company vehicles with automatic weapons.
They are killers.
We cannot build trust with un-trustworthy people, they are humans, inherently untrustworthy anyway, and throw in a culture which operates like Ferenges, and what do you have? So, we have a problem here, one which I don't believe can be solved by socialist-neo-liberal thinkers, or amnesty international.
Please consider all this.
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