Have been researching this whole "Pirate" business recently and began to wonder about some parallels to the illegal immigration issue.
I watched a TV documentary this week about a cruise by the US Farragut. They actually released the crews of the first 2 pirate skiffs they caught for 'lack of evidence", despite the fact the Helo crew members witnessed them toss their weapons overboard. Crew members were calling it their 'catch and release program.

In another article we go to the effort and expense to return the bodies of 3 pirates killed in an attack.

http://www.armybase.us/2009/04/us-navy- ... i-pirates/

And my personal favorite, this patty-cake, sympathetic ABC article about some poor "alleged" pirate we caught and how the poor baby had to endure a month in solitary confinement, before he had his day in court. So we go to the effort and expense to capture him, transport him here, feed him, probably pay for medical issues for wounds he received during the hijacking attempt, then, get this... you and I are paying for not 1, not 2, but 3 federal public defenders who are claiming he is not a bad guy, but had actually attempted to negotiate a solution to the five day standoff during which the ship's captain was held hostage by his cohorts. If you don't already have enough reasons to dislike lawyers, here is another one. A quote from Federal Public Defender Fiona Doherty "Our client was the one trying to find a peaceful resolution". ( Yea, right. I guess if I was involved a, say, a violent bank robbery, and it all started going in the toilet, I guess I might think about "trying to find a peaceful resolution" too).

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/comments? ... id=7643254


Juxtapose these policies against the way the Rooskies deal with these vermin.

http://true-turtle.livejournal.com/85315.html

It would seem to me that everyone, from those who wants to come here illegally, to pirates, to sworn enemies must have good laugh at the way we do business.

I am confused about one issue however, why haven't they starting chanting how the US Navy are a bunch of Racist, Fascist Goons, I mean, after all, the only folks they are detaining over there are skinny black guys...