That squishy sound?

That squishy sound?  It’s my head. Beating the desk.

I’m from an Irish, Roman Catholic family.  A child-safe expletive favored by the adults in my family was “Jesus, Mary and Joseph!”

And when I learned they’re taking the fourth Somali pirate to New York for criminal trial, where he’ll probably be tried as a minor, at that – I wanted to indulge in just such an outburst.  The article refers to him as the “suspect.”

This article includes a heaping helping of guilt:

He recalled an exchange with one of the pirates, who were aged 17 to 19: “I said to him, why do you do that?” The pirate, Ruiz said, responded: “We’ve got 20 million people in Somalia who are poor, that don’t have education. We don’t have no food.”

Now we’ll have the expense of trying him.  We’re going to spend hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars defending him.  IF he’s found guilty by a jury which somehow manages to remember that there are quite a few countries where people are poor, uneducated and hungry yet don’t commit piracy and ransom people for millions, we’ll spend hundreds of thousands more feeding and housing him.  Finally, when he gets out of prison, in all likelihood we’ll grant him a visa to stay here.

He could have been legally tried in Kenya.

Added para with the second article, and cross-posted at Hot Air’s Green Room.