If you can make it there...

New York City. Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse must be wondering what the hell happened. One day he's a happy go lucky pirate enjoying a cup of grog in his lair in Somalia, the next he's in New York surrounded by about 20 cops of various sorts. CNN's reporting had me ROTFL with their serious drone while Mr. Muse smiled broadly in the background.

Mr. Muse is no dummy, he had jumped out of the lifeboat and swum over to an American warship to get medical attention for an injury to his hand. That saved him from getting shot like his fellow buccaneers and earned him a trip to the Big Apple. Then he declared that he was only 15 years old, or his mother said 17, and his father said something else. I wonder who advised him on this strategy, someone who knew that juveniles can get off a lot easier? Not likely to be a problem with someone finding a conflicting birth certificate.

Sensing a media sensation, there is a raft of people coming forward to get their faces in the spotlight. I guess Jess Jackson is busy somewhere else, but Al Sharpton weighed in, declaring that the pirates were a "voluntary coast guard". Some publicity seeking lawyers have popped up too, I wonder why the ACLU is so slow? Where's Hollywod? There must be a reality show in here somewhere.

Back to the point, why is it that the Navy et. al. can't find and attack the pirate bases when the justice department can find his mother and father and get them on the phone?