Pirates

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Originally Posted by X5rolls

On a news program today, the Commandant of the Coast Guard was talking about how the proper thing to do is to have the legal framework in place internationally. Sure. Let's just sit around and do nothing and try to set up some legal framework. What a load of BS.

The danger to that approach is deciding what laws you are going to enforce. If you had an agreed convention (such as the Law of the Sea convention that was agreed to 27 years ago, but never ratified by the US for a variety of reasons) then you could enforce anti-piracy laws. All military actions should have some legitimacy IMO. Otherwise, what is seen as piracy by one country is simply taxation to another country. Laws aren't such a bad thing. That doesn't mean there shouldn't be enforcement, simply that there should be a commonly agreed to set of rules.

I suspect this thread just became a candidate to be moved to the Politics lounge.