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Richard Casady

On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:52:32 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:33:53 -0500, Richard Casady
wrote:

On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:26:51 -0400, wrote:

There are some BP middle managers who should go to jail over this. I
am not really sure how they will get prosecuted tho, since this
happened in international waters.

The prescedent is piracy. It is not that nobody has jurisdiction,
everyone does.

Casady

I doubt you could fit negligent homicide into the international piracy
statutes. We are having enough trouble charging real pirates off the
coast of Somalia.
I suppose the only recourse is in civil court but that will only
punish the BP stock holders and make a bunch of lawyers rich. The
execs who killed those people probably won't even get fired.

I didn't say it was piracy, just that, as it is in that case, everyone
is a victim and therefore everyone has jurisdiction. There is nowhere
beyond the reach of the law, the lawyers saw to that.

Casady