Should Pirates be hanged

Should Pirates be hanged

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USFREEDOM911 said:
Why not hang them?
It would tend to make some of them reconsider their occupation choice.
It worked in the past, when the pirates became to bold and brazen.
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I already answered why not, and more to the point the DP hasn't ever been shown to reduce crime in any study done. Now compound that with the fact that most of these pirates base their entire existence on piracy, and it's likely to accomplish nothing other than killing pirates, essentially in revenge.
 
Yurt said:
but the government is in fact deciding who lives and dies, vis a vis your orders...
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No..... the orders are to use force to accomplish a specific objective. The military does not order you to kill people, and again it's an invalid comparison since those are directly related to a WAR.
 
Yurt said:
USF....should we do this to pirates:

In the cases of more famous prisoners, usually captains their punishments extended beyond death. Their bodies were enclosed in iron cages (for which they were measured before their execution) and left to swing in the air until the flesh rotted off them- a process that could take as long as two years. The bodies of captains such as William Kidd, Charles Vane, William Fly, and Jack Rackham were all treated this way.[41]

Piracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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William Kidd was screwed. He was hardly a pirate and mostly a victim of circumstance.
 
Most often "pirates" had a writ from a King or Potentate to attack the ships of another nation. The image we have of pirates being swashbuckling dudes just stealing stuff is a bit off.
 
Yurt said:
USF....should we do this to pirates:

In the cases of more famous prisoners, usually captains their punishments extended beyond death. Their bodies were enclosed in iron cages (for which they were measured before their execution) and left to swing in the air until the flesh rotted off them- a process that could take as long as two years. The bodies of captains such as William Kidd, Charles Vane, William Fly, and Jack Rackham were all treated this way.[41]

Piracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nah - The stench would affect those where the cages would be and you know they wouldn't be anywhere near their home base.
Just hang them and get it over with.
 
C'Thulhu said:
I already answered why not, and more to the point the DP hasn't ever been shown to reduce crime in any study done. Now compound that with the fact that most of these pirates base their entire existence on piracy, and it's likely to accomplish nothing other than killing pirates, essentially in revenge.
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Then you might want to read about the last time, many years ago, when the cape was a haven for Pirates and how the US handled it.
It worked at that time and will work again.
 
USFREEDOM911 said:
Aren't you referring to a Privateer and not a Pirate?
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It depends on which side you were on as to what they were called. To those whose ships were attacked, they were pirates. To the people who gave them the writ they were privateers.

Very few of the pirates of old went about their business without that modicum of legitimacy. They did attack ships that were not military targets, and they kept the "booty" but they almost always had direction as to whom to attack.
 
C'Thulhu said:
Literally the privateer of one nation is the pirate of another.
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You might want to recheck the distinction and difference.
Are you suggeting that today's Pirates have a writ from their country of origin; because that would give cause for dealing with the entire country, instead of those at Sea.
 
I vote "no" as to the "hanged". While every ship has a right to defend themselves and governments to defend their ships, we have no real jurisdiction over these people. Sink their ships, save the hostages with attacks if necessary, but this "hang them" stuff...

We aren't barbarians. Simply keep our ships safe. Sink theirs, don't let them have free run of those waters, and never give them what they ask for...
 
Damocles said:
It depends on which side you were on as to what they were called. To those whose ships were attacked, they were pirates. To the people who gave them the writ they were privateers.

Very few of the pirates of old went about their business without that modicum of legitimacy. They did attack ships that were not military targets, and they kept the "booty" but they almost always had direction as to whom to attack.
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True; but not all Pirates were afforded such luxery and were open game for whoever located them.

Surprisingingly though, this doesn't seem to have any bearing on today's group.
 
Damocles said:
I vote "no" as to the "hanged". While every ship has a right to defend themselves and governments to defend their ships, we have no real jurisdiction over these people. Sink their ships, save the hostages with attacks if necessary, but this "hang them" stuff...

We aren't barbarians. Simply keep our ships safe. Sink theirs, don't let them have free run of those waters, and never give them what they ask for...
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I can live with that.
Fish got to eat also.
 
USFREEDOM911 said:
True; but not all Pirates were afforded such luxery and were open game for whoever located them.

Surprisingingly though, this doesn't seem to have any bearing on today's group.
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No, today's group are quite literally shopping for groceries. Their government has completely fallen apart, and this is what has filled the power vacuum.
 
I heard that these were not pirates i.e. kidnapping for ransom, but Muslim Somali thugs who planned the murder of these people?
 
Yurt said:
USF....should we do this to pirates:

In the cases of more famous prisoners, usually captains their punishments extended beyond death. Their bodies were enclosed in iron cages (for which they were measured before their execution) and left to swing in the air until the flesh rotted off them- a process that could take as long as two years. The bodies of captains such as William Kidd, Charles Vane, William Fly, and Jack Rackham were all treated this way.[41]

Piracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yep. Let torture trump rule of law.
 
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