Pirates released:
Can you imagine? These spineless EU cock-suckers have the hide to try Geert Wilders for telling the truth about Islam, but they are too coward to try these Somali pirates or put them up against the wall. The world has become an asylum and the inmates run the show:
Somali pirates held by Dutch freed: defence ministry
THE HAGUE — (AFP) A band of suspected Somali pirates captured by the Dutch navy after a failed attack on a cargo ship are to be freed after no country would agree to prosecute them, Dutch officials said Thursday.
“The European Union has decided… that the (Dutch warship that captured the pirates) Evertsen must let the 13 Somali pirates go,” the Dutch defence ministry said in a statement.
“The European Union has tried in vain since their arrest to find a country which would agree to prosecute them,” the statement added.
The suspected pirates, seized by Dutch naval officers in the Indian Ocean at the start of the month after allegedly attacking a cargo ship, would leave shortly aboard their own speed boat, a defence ministry spokeswoman said.
“The defence ministry regrets that the European Union has not found a suitable solution,” the statement said.
Defence officials added the EU had signed agreements with the Seychelles and Kenya to help press charges against suspected pirates captured in the region but “the two countries indicated they did not want to prosecute the pirates.”
Until Sunday, the Netherlands was in command of the EU’s Atalanta anti-piracy mission. They recently extended their participation in the mission until June 2010.
Many countries have faced problems in getting pirate suspects captured by their navies prosecuted. It is difficult to hand them over to countries close to where they are seized due to a lack of legal arrangements.
A History Lesson from John Quincy Adams:
The commands of the prophet may be performed alike, by fraud, or by force. Of Mahometan good faith, we have had memorable examples ourselves. When our gallant [Stephen] Decatur ref had chastised the pirate of Algiers, till he was ready to renounce his claim of tribute from the United States, he signed a treaty to that effect: but the treaty was drawn up in the Arabic language, as well as in our own; and our negotiators, unacquainted with the language of the Koran, signed the copies of the treaty, in both languages, not imagining that there was any difference between them. Within a year the Dey demands, under penalty of the renewal of the war, an indemnity in money for the frigate taken by Decatur; our Consul demands the foundation of this pretension; and the Arabic copy of the treaty, signed by himself is produced, with an article stipulating the indemnity, foisted into it, in direct opposition to the treaty as it had been concluded. The arrival of Chauncey, with a squadron before Algiers, silenced the fraudulent claim of the Dey, and he signed a new treaty in which it was abandoned; but he disdained to conceal his intentions; my power, said he, has been wrested from my hands; draw ye the treaty at your pleasure, and I will sign it; but beware of the moment, when I shall recover my power, for with that moment, your treaty shall be waste paper. He avowed what they always practised, and would without scruple have practised himself. Such is the spirit, which governs the hearts of men, to whom treachery and violence are taught as principles of religion.” Thanks to Islamist Monitor
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The EU ruling is a relief for once-wave-ruling-Britannia. The Royal Navy won’t arrest Somali pirates in case they claim asylum.
Solution: Sink the vessel with the pirates on board. Those who will not prosecute pirates AT SEA, by the LAWS OF THE SEA, have chosen to harbor pirates and therefore, are the enemy also. Sink their asses. Rescue only the Dutch crew. Problem solved, expensive lesson meted out. Rinse, lather, repeat. Morons eventually get the message when their wallets quickly become empty.
If I was sitting on my yacht just off the beach in LA in the late 60′s, and the Manson family swam out to sea just after they committed multiple brutal butcher knife homicides, and I let them board me, do you think that the US Coast Guard wouldn’t put 20mm cannon shells across my bow, then into my hull if I did not comply with their orders to halt my vessel and prepare to be boarded?
Also, why haven’t the Dutch hired some ex-IDF Israeli “contractors” as ship security…you know, the people who aren’t afraid to hurt terrorists feelings?
There was a time when the captain of a naval ship, having captured pirates on the high seas, could legally execute them.
Why not now?
Just kill the bastards and sink their ships!!!