Comments on: “Pirates can claim UK asylum”

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:08:17 +0000

A supertanker is just too valuable not to be defended.
Just from the amount of environmental damage it could do if harmed. My vote is to use a 50 cal machine gun and blow them from the water. Problem solved. Another novel idea is to run high voltage electricity on the ladder and electrocute them as they try to board.

By: Rich T

Rich T — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:50:11 +0000

Got to agree with Kevin M; Blow them out of the water.

Can’t we send a few of our ‘oxygen thief’ scrotes over to act as ‘Pirate Bait’. if they suffer, it’s no-ones loss!

By: Judson Fisher

Judson Fisher — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:23:38 +0000

Eventually, Britain will become a little-known Moslem outpost.

By: Will

Will — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:48:41 +0000

Sounds simplistic to me.

I would like to think that the guidance actually given was along the lines of:

“You can’t just pick people up on suspicion, check them out and let them go.

If you pick someone up they have to come back to Britain and get prosecuted or given asylum.

And we don’t want to give people asylum.”

By: DWMF

DWMF — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:05:02 +0000

The French don’t seem to have any problem with this. They have about seven pirates behind bars in France, awaiting trial.

The British legal system is infected with crippling political correctness and lack of will.

By: Kevin M

Kevin M — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:20:13 +0000

Instead of capturing them, just blow them out of the water, problem solved.

By: Bill Poser

Bill Poser — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:46:38 +0000

I understand the problem with turning pirates over to the Somali government, but why can’t they prosecute them themselves? Is piracy no longer subject to universal jurisdiction?

By: Richard Nieporent

Richard Nieporent — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:41:26 +0000

I would like to believe that this was an article from the Onion, but unfortunately that is not the case. Breach their human rights? This is sheer lunacy. These Pirates have committed mayhem and murder but rather than punish them Britain would have to give them asylum because they face cruel punishment? The only rights that these Pirates should have is the right to a swift execution. Britain (and Europe) have gone stark raving mad. By the way, if the British Navy is not allowed to do anything to the Pirates, why in the world are they patrolling the seas? Are they planning to send them a sharply worded message?