American Thinker - Michael Curtis: A European Court Is Wrong about France - "The ECHR ... their absurd conclusion was that the pirates had been insufficiently protected against arbitrary interference with their right to liberty because of the 48-hour delay when they were examined while in custody. Accordingly, the Court awarded thousands of euros to each of the six Somali pirates on trial. One is to get 9,000 euros, the others sums of up to 7,000 euros." [No wonder the Third World must think we are absoluty idiotic patsies. ---tma]

A European Court Is Wrong about France


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Since the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operetta The Pirates of Penzance, the world has been conscious of menace on the high seas.  The operetta is delightfully playful and amusing.  In contrast, the scenario about and the decision on December 4, 2014 concerning Somali pirates made by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is a farce, ludicrous and far from amusing.   The Court, elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and set up in Strasbourg in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of human rights, is considered a totally independent body.  Its decision on December 4 reached the height of absurdity, and it suggests that its independence has transmuted into irrationality and incomprehensible arrogance.  Indeed, the Court has made absurdity one of the fine arts.

The U.S. has become familiar with the problem of piracy.  Hollywood presented in the moving film, Captain Phillips, the hijacking in the Indian Ocean in 2009 by four Somalis of a U.S. cargo ship whose captain was taken for ransom.  Those pirates were killed in a daring raid by a U.S. Navy SEAL Team (Devgru).  The U.S. familiarity with the exploits of pirates goes back to the incidents when Barbary Corsairs in the early 19th century attacked merchant ships to extract ransom.  This had led President Thomas Jefferson to send a small squadron to Tripoli in 1801 to maintain peace, and to send a detachment of the newly formed Marine Corps to attack Tripoli in 1804. ...

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