tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24766932.post4273148567509218668..comments2023-02-17T14:59:05.164ZComments on The Jacksonian Party: What is necessary to find terrorists to be Pirates?A Jacksonianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07607888697879327120noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24766932.post-58312541467488312972007-08-28T23:33:00.000Z2007-08-28T23:33:00.000ZLady Hawk - My sincerest thanks!I try to ensure t...Lady Hawk - My sincerest thanks!<BR/><BR/>I try to ensure that on this blog my ideas are as close to final as I can get them. I work most of them out on my other blog, and this issue is, I think, the crux of the modern era. Currently <A HREF="http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2007/08/piracy-terrorism-and-wider-view.html" REL="nofollow">things are cleared up some</A> with this. And the major conclusion I can come to so far is, like Mr. Reynolds has said: "We have been overlawyered. Which is not necessarily the same thing as well lawyered."<BR/><BR/>But that is a rant for another day.<BR/><BR/>Again, my thanks for stopping by! I really keep no track of readers or such... I write so that my ideas will be available. I can only go so far given my health, but if others can make something more and better and I have helped, then that is enough. Those few I have been able to help have given me a satisfaction beyond counting.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps a few of us can offer a better way forward for the Republic. We ask little of our citizens, and often get less... but building forward... precious beyond price and fulfilling for all.A Jacksonianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07607888697879327120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24766932.post-89803138837343795362007-08-28T23:08:00.000Z2007-08-28T23:08:00.000ZDear Mr. Jacksonian:Thank you so much for your com...Dear Mr. Jacksonian:<BR/>Thank you so much for your comments! I understand-somewhat better-what your Blog was about. <BR/>I am sure more people read your BLOG than comment on it. What a God-given intellect you have!Lady Hawkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10482518753089014708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24766932.post-20435978769183467832007-08-28T09:53:00.000Z2007-08-28T09:53:00.000Zlady hawk - This problem is one that is putting a ...lady hawk - This problem is one that is putting a few communities at ill ease. In this lovely era of the UN wanting to take over 'administration of the high seas' and tax all shipments to run such 'administration', we come face to face with the fact that the UN does not have a handle on how to go after 'terrorism', which is international in scope. As the UN has been unable to stop the things it was set up for, that brings into question its utility in international law. Genocide, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, securing peace *anywhere*... all of these things it has failed at.<BR/><BR/>So the concept of law of nations, pre-dating this era, and giving nations their foundational rights and obligations must be examined. And the way to address 'terrorism' is via this older concept known as 'piracy'.<BR/><BR/>In this piece I am deliberatly using the 'Near Seas' attack by al Qaeda to show that while internal Yemeni courts may have jurisdiction over the miscreants it is the attack by the organization of al Qaeda that goes unaddressed: that is not mere civil crime, but the breaking of the law of nations. What would be a casus belli if done by a Nation, remains so if done by a non-nation state actor. And when done upon the Near Seas and the Nation hosting our emissary is unable to yield justice via the law of nations, then the US must see this attack upon our vessel as something that is still on the high seas once the near seas component is satisfied for civil crime.<BR/><BR/>This is not 'double jeopardy' but separate jurisdictions: the universal law of nations and the local Yemeni civil law. If the Yemenis cannot call al Qaeda a pirate for this activity, then the US must see that this activity falls under the larger concept of high seas.<BR/><BR/>Because we have not used the piracy framework actively since the high seas portion has abated, we must be put upon to review prior histories of illegitimate warfare and how the US and other Nations addressed it... and it went by the name of piracy. It was the policy for the United States from 1863 to the 1880's to treat these activities, on land or sea, as piracy. That from the FM-100 authorized by Abraham Lincoln.<BR/><BR/>Lincoln addressed the pure activity and it looks like this thing we call 'terrorism'. If that is the case, which it is, then international law has already addressed this via the piracy codes. Getting al Qaeda determined to be a piractical operation means members of it and its direct affiliates are *also* pirates. That is the sole legal finding necessary to call them a scourge to all nations and that they not be helped in any way, shape or form, lest the US and other civilized nations take offense to such Nations harboring such pirates. That means ending trade and, indeed, all support for those Nations.<BR/><BR/>Many will not want to do so, both from the personal to the Nation State. They will be supporting non-Nations to attack Nations and can be called on such and asked why they support the end to civilization. From my sights that is the fight we are in... against barbarians that are a law unto themselves. We used to call them 'pirates'... 'terrorism' is an activity that is illegitimate warfare. Our ancestors from the 19th century would not call that 'terrorism' but 'piracy', also 'banditry' and a few other things less savory. They left us that clarity if we dare to find and use it... and it may be all that finally saves us from the multi-culti anything goes era we have just traversed. Call things for what they are and to hell with the 'intentions'.A Jacksonianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07607888697879327120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24766932.post-5483769843493087772007-08-28T01:04:00.000Z2007-08-28T01:04:00.000ZThis will take me months to translate, but I appre...This will take me months to translate, but I appreciate your analysis even if I do not understand it on a first reading.<BR/>Your BLOGS are excellent for me to work omy intellect on.Lady Hawkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10482518753089014708noreply@blogger.com