Comments on: In NYC, Somali Suspect Charged With Piracy

Sole Survivor Among Group Of Pirates Who Attacked U.S. Cargo Ship Cries In Court, Could Face Life In Prison

[presjfk]

Personally, I think we should make an example of him. Educate him. Show him what the difference between right and wrong is, through education, not incarceration. Maybe then he can return to his country with that in mind and help this kind of thing, maybe not as a whole, but for some other youngster. One life changes one life, changes another, etc. Teach this young man to be a diplomat, as it seems the only choice at 15 he had was made for him.
Posted by Kru311

He can live next door to you when he is released. Special Forces should have shot him during the raid.

[Kru311]

unfortunatly for the guy who commented on the fact that he's an adult because he's holding an AK-47, the fact of the matter is that in africa children are stolen from thier families every day, and given weapons of slaughter. Obviously this is a child, who looked at his captors and asked them if they could help him come to america, obviously something a child would do to somebody they see as an adult. An adult would have the common sense to know that the guy you are trying to rob isn't going to help you. So for the guy with AK comment, would you find an impoverished 8 year old guilty of murder? One who was stolen from his family and trained to fight and nothing else? Enjoy the comfort of your home here in america, your nice little bubble where everything is perfect oblivious to the world and the horrors others live in.

Personally, I think we should make an example of him. Educate him. Show him what the difference between right and wrong is, through education, not incarceration. Maybe then he can return to his country with that in mind and help this kind of thing, maybe not as a whole, but for some other youngster. One life changes one life, changes another, etc. Teach this young man to be a diplomat, as it seems the only choice at 15 he had was made for him.

[ultrawiz]

What's amazing is morons like you being allowed to vote.

[speakinup]

"CNN says the judge ruled the pirate to be an adult. He will probably be out in 60 days selling a story to National Enquirer for more money than his team originally wanted for the Maersk Alabama. The streets of America are paved with gold. - Posted by martin9p2


So true...

Worse yet, if word gets out about the three hots and a cot he gets for LIFE, the next thing you know, every single somalie will be shooting anything they can get their hands on at any ship that comes by in the hope they can get the same deal.

I say chum the water with them. Fishing will make a come back.

[martin9p2]

Don't have sympathy for the fecker because he is young. Most pirates in somalia are in middle school (or should be), so let's not apply American standards and call them the victims.

[speakinup]

So, this skinny makes a big deal of smiling when he is before the cameras, in what I would interpret as an act of defiance, yet when he goes before the judge, he's sobbibg like a little kid, crying for mommy.

I say try him as an adult. IF (hah) found guilty (you gotta feel almost sorry for the two public defenders), he should be offered life in the worst prison available, or life on an easy street prison, if he will make VCR tapes indicating what almost happened to him except for making the tapes - for distribution to these 'rich' pirates.

[thusspokezara]

We should not rush to judgment. We are likely to find that he had a very difficult upbringing, without the benefit of a nanny, and an Upper West Side education. I bet he has not even heard of Zaabars.

[martin9p2]

CNN says the judge ruled the pirate to be an adult. He will probably be out in 60 days selling a story to National Enquirer for more money than his team originally wanted for the Maersk Alabama. The streets of America are paved with gold.

[stn_sage]

Sorry if I don't get "misty eyed" and all "choked up" over Muse's tears in court!

He wasn't crying when he was back home with the gang wielding weapons, and he probably wasn't crying when he was smacking around some tourist or ship's crew (if he did), and he
probably wasn't crying when he shot someone (if he did), but now he is---why?

Well---he GOT CAUGHT! And that takes all the fun out of it! Yep, now he's going to be held
responsible for what he's done! And, THAT provokes many people like Mr. Muse to tears!

[jckbrn-2009]

If he's carrying an AK-47 and participating in criminal activity of any kind anywhere - - -
he's an adult - - -
That crap about "my poor baby wouldn't do things like that unless he was misled by
bigger guys" is just that - - -
if people anywhere in the world can't properly provide for their offspring they shouldn't have any - - - - animals are animals - - if it quacks like a duck, swims like a duck, etc,
I'm probably gonna call it a duck - - and it should be treated like a duck - - anywhere in the world! ! ! Hard ? I guess, but I'm just completely out of sympathy and empathy for every pitiful excuse for a human being who can't (or doesn't) contribute anything and specializes in rip off processes to enrich themselves - - and then cries because they get caught at it ! ! The life of far too many criminals is improved by the benefits provided by prison/jail - - the gene pool needs cleaning badly ! !

[MIO42]

I DON'T GIVE A DAMN WHAT HIS AGE IS - HE DOES A CRIME - HE DOES THE TIME!

OK ???? "USA" Largest Rate of Incaceration in THE KNOWN UNIVERSE "How's that
workin for ya !

[displeased]

["He took all his books the day he disappeared, except one, I think, and did not come back," she said, adding that she did not know which book he was reading - Hassan is illiterate. ]

ahhh ... if he's illiterate why would he have any books at all?
Posted by bobnjersey

Hassan is the mother. She's the one who's illiterate.

[saturn05]

The Manson women originally received the death penalty and are now serving life. They were brainwashed. So the guy, not child, is responsible for his actions and has to face the consequences. Their actions have life-long effects.

[brianp55]

"Muse arrived in New York on Monday night and smiled as he was led into a government building."

Probably thinks we're gonna give him a green card.

[wogerwabbit]

It's amazing..... officials are so careful to follow the law to the "t" with this guy - but on a larger and more detrimental catastrophy - Obama and his adminstration is given passes left and right.
Posted by USA_Constitution at 1:21 PM : Apr 21, 2009

Get a life!

[martin9p2]

America's laws are so antiquated that American courts are not fit to try the likes of somali pirates. Too many rights for the pirate, too few tools for the prosecution.

[martin9p2]

If you get your first tommy gun when you're 9, learn to kill foreigners at 11, graduate from extortion school at 14 and join a pirate crew when you're 15, you're an adult.
If you boarded the Bainbridge to "negotiate" for medical care, you are still a pirate.
So this guy is an adult pirate, deserving of the same death that he would have gladly delivered to any one of the victims if given a chance.

[grabandgo]

It's amazing..... officials are so careful to follow the law to the "t" with this guy - but on a larger and more detrimental catastrophy - Obama and his adminstration is given passes left and right.
Posted by USA_Constitution at 1:21 PM : Apr 21, 2009

nobama and his band of thieves are "above the law"

See what happens if you or I cheat on taxes!

[grabandgo]

If he was captured by China he would be dead already!

[wtcmedic911]

will make someone a nice wife in the pen.