Russians Deal Justice at Sea

[kahrseye]

This was sent to me by a friend:


I guess I missed all of the coverage and outrage in the world media. Can you imagine if we had done this? How do you spell double standard?

We brought the Somali pirate we captured to the U.S. for trial.

Seems like the Russians have a more effective deterrent. I didn't hear them read the Somali pirates their rights. Talk about due process.
Russian navy captures Somalian pirates - End of problem!


Amazing video of court held on the High Seas..

An effective way to deal with the piracy mess. Looks like the Russians get their act together. A historic and effective
way of dealing with the lawless. They did make one mistake, however for added affect, they could have saved one pirate and sent him home with the story... Read the info below before watching the film clip.

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This video shows Russian Navy commandos on a Somalian pirate ship shortly after the pirates had captured a Russian oil tanker. All explanations are in Russian with a single exception of when a wounded pirate says something in English and the Russian soldier says "This is not a fishing boat.". All conversations between the commandos are in Russian. If you don't understand Russian, the pictures speak for themselves.
The soldiers freed their compatriots and the tanker. The Russian Navy Commandos moved the pirates back to their own (pirate) ship, searched the pirate ship for weapons and explosives, and then they left the ship and exploded it with all remaining pirates hand-cuffed to it. The commandos sank the pirate ship along with the pirates and without any court proceedings, lawyers etc. That is, they used the anti-piracy laws of the 18th and 19th centuries where the captain of the rescuing ship has the right to decide what to do with the pirates. Usually, they were hung.
I would think from now on, Russian ships will not be targets for Somalian pirates.

[dusty10]

If our leaders had stones we would do the same. But nooooo we're all civilized and such. :rolleyes:

[kahrseye]

If our leaders had stones we would do the same. But nooooo we're all civilized and such. :rolleyes:

There's definitely a double standard where the U.S. is concerned.:59:

[Dietrich]

The Russians do tend to take a pragmatic approach when they encounter a problem,don`t they?

[getsome]

Say what you want about the Russian's way of dealing with problems or the death penalty here but dirt bags like John Wayne Gacy or those Pirates aint gonna hurt nobody else in this world ever again and you can take that to the bank......

[dusty10]

The Russians do tend to take a pragmatic approach when they encounter a problem,don`t they?


Very nicely crafted with a definite Englishman's slant by asking you to agree with the first part of the sentence by asking a question at the end. Well done Dietrich. And yes, we could use a little more pragmatism on this side of the Atlantic.

[johnh]

Reading the comments, I am not sure the pirates were on the boat when sunk. Would be fitting if they were, but sounds like they released them on a smaller launch. Hopefully they were cuffed to it so rowing was more of an adventure for them. ;)

John

[jeepster09]

No No No...we can't do that we might offend them and they wouldn't want to do business with us anymore....poor little pirates, if we would just bring them here and put them on welfare they might become our friends.

[jlottmc]

Even if the pirates weren't aboard that vessel, the message Mother Russia sent is loud and clear. Wish I spoke more Russian than to imply rude things about one and their parents though.