US Law suffices

Post #25,289 by boxley 1/23/02 1:29:50 PM Reply	US Law suffices [link\|http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/casecode/uscodes/18/parts/i/chapters/81/sections/section_1653.html\|who are they?] thanx, bill My Dreams aren't as empty as my conscience seems to be
Post #25,301 by Brandioch 1/23/02 2:27:33 PM Reply	Allow me to post the text of that. "Whoever, being a citizen or subject of any foreign state, is found and taken on the sea making war upon the United States, or cruising against the vessels and property thereof, or of the citizens of the same, contrary to the provisions of any treaty existing between the United States and the state of which the offender is a citizen or subject, when by such treaty such acts are declared to be piracy, is a pirate, and shall be imprisoned for life." "found and taken on the sea" Afghanistan is a sea?
Post #25,305 by boxley 1/23/02 2:44:08 PM Reply	what part of OR do you have trouble with :) OR of the citizens of the same(US) Note the provisions of US law that declare an aircraft to be a vessel, hence the term air piracy, etc [link\|http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/terrorists/termugniyah.htm\|wanted poster] note how many times the word piracy appears. Lack of water is not a limitation. thanx, bill My Dreams aren't as empty as my conscience seems to be
Post #25,314 by Brandioch 1/23/02 3:20:51 PM Reply	No problem. "Whoever, being a citizen or subject of any foreign state, is found and taken on the sea making war upon the United States, or cruising against the vessels and property thereof, or of the citizens of the same, contrary to the provisions of any treaty existing between the United States and the state of which the offender is a citizen or subject, when by such treaty such acts are declared to be piracy, is a pirate, and shall be imprisoned for life." Yep, one long sentence. The part you quoted seems to refer to acts of piracy against US citizens. "upon the United States" "or cruising against the vessles and property thereoff" "or of the citizens of the same" (I'm taking "the same" to mean US) So, anyone found and captured on the sea while raiding US citizens can be imprisoned for life as a pirate. In other words, the hijackers could be considered "pirates" (allow air instead of sea), but the other people in Afghanistan wouldn't be.
Post #25,320 by marlowe 1/23/02 3:37:40 PM Reply	Aaaaargh, me hearties! I think it's reasonable to say that the Taliban were accessories both before and after the fact to certain instances of air piracy last September. They aided and abetted big time. But if anyone wants to be pedantic, you can say air piracy isn't really piracy because they don't have peg legs or parrots on their shoulders. And then there's software piracy... Here's a question. Those guards at the Nazi death camps. Did they qualify as soldiers under the Geneva convention? [link\|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/index.html\|http://www.angelfir...e/index.html] Sometimes "tolerance" is just a word for not dealing with things.
Post #25,321 by boxley 1/23/02 3:44:35 PM Reply	Yes they did and were treated as POW's My Dreams aren't as empty as my conscience seems to be

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