Somali Pirate Gets Life Sentence for Poor Victim Selection Skills
31-year-old Mohamed Farah was sentenced to life in prison for his part in attacking a US Navy ship in 2010. Federal prosecutors alleged he was among seven Somali pirates who attacked USS Ashland. It didn’t go well.
The pirates mistook Ashland for a cargo vessel in the night time attack, and were quickly dispatched. After opening fire, the pirate’s skiff was disabled and one of their number killed. The rest were rescued and subsequently prosecuted in Federal court, and sentenced to various prison terms.
Life in prison has been the mandatory sentence for piracy since 1909; prior to that it was a capital offense.
Category: Politics
Life in an U.S prison is still better than life in Somalia. But as a tax payer I say the sharks need food just like buzzards.
Maggots, worms and wild hogs gotta eat too!
Took 6 years to get this guy to prison for life? What, he had ‘rights’ and stuff while his case worked its way through the system. Should have been left at sea as noted by Sapper. Sharks need some lovin’, also.
They should have received the Russian military solution to the Somali pirate problem. I still love watching that video of them shooting up the pirate mother ship.
27 species of sharks in that area alone, and they are all wondering, ‘What about us? What about our needs? We have children to feed.’
I hope that Mo is looking forward to a lifetime of Man-Love Thursdays (where he will be experiencing the “joy of being the fat-bottomed boy”) and the “All-He-Will-Eat Cockmeat Buffet” at the BTJT Deli (home of the Cockmeat Sammich and Ghey Whey Milkshake).
Stupid fucks for going after a US Warship…
Hopefully he will not be able to repel prison butt pirates attempting to board him…
Had he done something of this magnitude in Somalia and faced their system, he would have been shot in the head post haste. But after six years of America’s justice system to give him the best defense possible, he gets life. With three hot meals a day, a warm place to sleep, cable TV and every other amenity we can offer him. I hope his skinny Somali ass gets pounded hard every day and every night.
I’ve only flown over Somalia, but driving out of Djibouti airport, I noticed there was (still is?) a gallows by the side of the road…extreme justice for extreme environments…
Good target practice for the gunners on the ship, shoot anything in the water…no expense other than a few rounds…!
With that said, whoever was manning the guns can brag that they were able to shoot pirates!
Life in prison for him? WHAT A WASTE of taxpayer money feeding, clothing and housing him, I hope he hangs himself!
Bubba, Thor, Mr. Tiny will sing in unison…
“I’m the Captain now!”
Don’t be forgetting Julio… many in prison never forget Julio…
Pirates used to get hung from the nearest yardarm. Walking the plank was another one we heard of. Both end up in shark infested water and these days it is good for biodiversity and a positive contribution to reducing global warming.