US judge throws out piracy charges against 6 Somalis.

[gsvol]

US judge throws out piracy charges against 6 Somalis accused of attacking Navy assault ship | StarTribune.com

Raymond A Jackson is yet another activist judge appointed by Clinton.

 

[Oldvol75]

I guess they have to actually kill someone for it to count and take complete command of the ship. Nothing suprizes me anymore.

 

[gsvol]

I guess they have to actually kill someone for it to count and take complete command of the ship. Nothing suprizes me anymore.

Really??

What's the point of arresting someone who is attacking a US Naval vessel??

How many people were killed aboard the USS Cole??

Alahu Barackbar.

Charges dropped against Cole bombers:

Asked for reaction to the news, Commander Kirk Lippold
(Ret.), former Commander aboard the U.S.S. Cole when it was bombed on October 12, 2000, told ABC News that
he was “concerned” about the move.

“For some reason the administration says what’s been
expressed through the legislature is not sufficient,”
Lippold said of the military commissions, which he said
had “undergone extensive legal and legislative review...
They need to allow the process to go forward.”

” In a way, the President tied his administration’s own
hands, requiring his Secretary of Defense to drop the charges.

The executive order President Obama signed on closing
the Guantanamo Detention Facilities states that “all proceedings” in the US Military Commissions must
be “halted”:”

UN-INDICTED CO-CONSPIRATOR CAIR APPLAUDS PRESIDENT HUSSEIN'S HADITH AT NATIONAL PRAYER - Atlas Shrugs

 

[utvolpj]

so they went to court and the charges were dropped? What part of the ruling was legally wrong when interpreting the law?

 

[JTrainDavis]

I didn't realize that the waters off the Horn of Africa were under jurisdiction of the US legal system.
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[gsvol]

so they went to court and the charges were dropped? What part of the ruling was legally wrong when interpreting the law?

The judge can legally rule as he pleases, this particular judge has a high rate of being overturned in appeals courts though.

In this particular case the judge cited only one example in making his ruling from a case in about 1819. In that case the judge quoted a narrow definition of piracy that fit the particulars of that one case. This ruling uses that quote to make it's ruling but ignores the broader definition of piracy as it appears in legal dictionaries and other documents.

I didn't realize that the waters off the Horn of Africa were under jurisdiction of the US legal system.
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The USN was within it's rights to apprehend pirates opperating in the area.

I don't think a US federal court is the right place to try them though.

 

[MG1968]

maybe the Navy should just engage hostiles the way they always have in the past and not worry about taking prisoners

 

[gsvol]

Black Hawk Down could be like a boy scout camporee before it's all over.