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Originally posted by Paul:
The captain of the Tampa was on his way to fulfil his duty by taking them to Indonesia, as maritime law requires, when a large number of the "asylum-seekers" threatened him and his crew with violence if they were not taken to Australian territory.
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If this is true...if they kidnapped the crew with the threat of violence and forced the ship to go where it didn't want to go with the threat of violence, aka piracy, why on earth wouldn't the army be used to contain them? Does Christmas Island have enough of a police presence to handle the situation?