marching stormtroopers ahoy!

4/22/2009 12:27:17 PM

Well, US Code says imprison him for life, so be it. I kinda thought the way we have historically dealt with pirates was to hang them, but maybe that was the British Empire and not the United States.

4/22/2009 12:36:49 PM

I have to ask, why isnt this sorta in a military court? (I sorta know the answer to this as well)

He was arrested/picked up by a military operation. Shooting guns or with intent to. Wheres the charge of being a terrorist/ enemy combatant. Send him to Guantanamo (ya i know its closed).

4/22/2009 12:45:39 PM

^^ well, a lot of things have changed since the last time the US dealt directly with pirates, like, ummmm, Reconstruction ended, the car was invented, and women got the right to vote.

4/22/2009 12:53:32 PM

Wow, things have changed which means the way things were done in any subject were the incorrect way of doing them.

Gee, 400 years ago they used water to irrigate crops. Maybe we shouldn't do it that way any more.

Get your panties out of a bunch. I've conceded that life imprisonment is the way he should be dealt with.

4/22/2009 1:05:55 PM

Just give the asshole a show on VH1 and be done with it.

4/22/2009 1:15:26 PM

man, it would be a real mind fuck to go from your mud and sticks house in somali to being dragged down the sidewalk in the middle of NYC in a matter of hours

4/22/2009 1:26:30 PM

^^^ the "historical way" of doling out punishment is not valid. Societal standards of punishment change from generation to generation, and while people may have been pretty gung-ho about hanging pirates in the 1880s, I doubt that idea would gain much popularity today (apart from the lunatic fringe that have come out in this thread)

4/22/2009 2:02:23 PM

Yeah, I reluctantly agree. I was being facetious regarding your comparison of our policies regarding piracy to reconstruction, technological advances and women's sovereignty .

4/22/2009 2:36:34 PM

yeah, that's fine, but those specific examples still present a valid point about how dramatically the world, and the US, has changed in the last 140 years, and anything we do now just because "that's the way it's always been done" better have a good reason (e.g. we still water crops now because crops still require water to grow, but we don't segregate schools any more because we, as a society, decided it was wrong)

4/22/2009 2:40:00 PM

Quote :

"Gee, 400 years ago they used water to irrigate crops. Maybe we shouldn't do it that way any more."

Water? Like out the toilet?

[Edited on April 22, 2009 at 3:59 PM. Reason : l]

4/22/2009 3:59:42 PM

It really hasn't changed that much

4/22/2009 4:20:05 PM

^ [Idiocracy]

4/22/2009 4:23:54 PM