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Yes, Tribesman, my sole desire is to abolish the rule of law by substituting private firms for the US navy, as the rule of law is incompatible with private firms. That's because I think expatriate private firms aren't governed by both foreign and domestic law, because I'm an idiot. Give me at least a little credit, would you?
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And what has that got to do with what I wrote ?
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The OP says that part of the issue here was that a US Navy warship was used to obliterate a skiff, which in itself raises the question of whether or not excessive force was used against civilians, since they wouldn't be technically classified as "pirates" by US law.
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The OP is a drifting blog which skirts the issue for the sake of a headline rant.
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Of course, they were pirates and they did, stupidly, attempt to raid a warship.
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Yes but they have only managed to make 6 out of the 7 charges stick.
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For a private contractor safeguarding a merchant ship with proper permissions from the nationalities concerned this isn't a legal problem;
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There are a lot of nations and a lot of laws which makes it a big legal problem. Thats the problem with circumventing international law through multiple jusrisdictions.
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Delivering the mail and packages used to be the sole job of the post office.
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no it wasn't, they had a monopoly on non urgent letters with an obligation for universal distribution.
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It couldn't be any more of a legal nightmare than US import quotas are,
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Apples and oranges.
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Relaxing trade quotas in exchange for the operation of private shipping security firms is a wonderful idea
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So you want the government to negotiate seperately with lots of other government linking unrelated things for the interests of private business which may not be beneficial to the government or the nation.
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the rule of law wouldnt be abolished, just the laws need changing. And there would be no executions, the ships would have strict orders to fire at pirate vessels alone, not the crew, if the crew is on the boat than thats their problem (a macaber little loophole isnt it).
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So you are talking of fundamental changes in law and a loophole that doesn't exist.
Look at all the trouble that was caused when the fishermen were sunk and left to drown.