The New York Daily News reports that the captured pirate now in New York City didn’t find the booty he was looking for in the end.
He shed some tears, which I’m sure is something not permitted in the Pirate Code.
In all seriousness, his mother said the following:
She said her son should not be held responsible for the Maersk hijacking.
“He was brainwashed. People who are older than him outwitted him, people who are older than him duped him,” she said.
“I cried when I saw the picture of him,” Hassan said of the arrest photo. “Relatives brought a copy of the picture to me. Surely he is telling himself now, ‘My mother’s heart is broken.'”
Surely he should be worrying about more than his mother’s heart. Here is where the rubber meets the road; and while I’m certain he is younger man and I am also certain he was probably convinced that heading out to become a pirate would be a great thing to do for fun and profit, I am also certain that the best way to dissuade others from following suit is to hammer him to the wall and make sure everyone knows.
The longer people think they have an easy way to make millions of dollars in ransom, the longer people will take ships, crews, and goods. The idea that they are just misunderstood people trying to get ahead in an area of the world where nothing is too good at all is as foolish as saying a homeless person can take money from someone walking by since, hey, he needed it more. I know there are some liberals who do believe the above statement, and to be sure, I spend enough time focusing on that idiocy, so for now we should focus on pirates.
Convict this felon as an adult, make an example out of him, and have our navy actively engaging pirates and suspected pirates until the seas are clean. If you want to carry guns and act tough and threat people with violence and death, then be prepared for someone to call you on it and take you at your word: kill or be killed. The situation has escalated, and the only way the US Navy can lose is if the White House or lawyers hamper them.
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