![]() ![]() The will do anything for a buck, but this is their lowest moment, representing a murderous pirate against a film studio that, frankly, has had to endure enough these last few months.” ”They take on the most stupid, inane cases possible. “The ACLU won’t be happy until they destroy America,” said radio personality Rush Limbaugh. We are asking for $100 million dollars, which upon winning, the ACLU will hold for Muse until he is done serving his 33 year sentence – minus our large cut, of course.” Corporations need to be taught you can not walk all over the little people. I’ve taken this case on because my client has not seen one dime of the profits of a movie which essentially tells his life story. “Mr Abduwali Muse, who the story ‘Captain Phillips’ is based on, is serving a 33 year sentence here in the United States. “How can the American Civil Liberties Union represent a Somali pirate, you ask? The answer is easy – he is being held in a U.S. ![]() Captain Phillips was Sony Pictures 2013 hit, grossing over $218 billion worldwide. The Maersk Alabama's crew tried to trade Muse for Phillips but were rebuffed by the pirates.The ACLU representing a Somali pirate filed a lawsuit today against Sony Pictures, claiming that their client, Abduwali Muse, never gave his permission for his story to be told in movie, and has never received compensation. Unable to take control of the massive ship, the remaining three pirates grabbed Phillips and put to sea in a lifeboat. After he and the other would-be pirates boarded the vessel, Muse was stabbed in the hand by a member of the 20-man crew during a struggle, and was then tied up by the crew. ![]() Muse and three other men stormed the Maersk Alabama, a 500-foot U.S.-flagged container ship, on April 8, 2009. "Now he will pay for those five days and the events leading up to them." Attorney Preet Bharara in a statement after the sentencing. "For five days that must have seemed like an eternity to this victims, Abduwali Abukhadir Muse terrorized the crew of the Maersk Alabama," said U.S. Preska teared up and removed her glasses and then gave Muse the maximum permitted sentence, 33 years and nine months, citing the need for deterrence. Prior to announcing the sentence, Judge Preska read aloud from Phillips' letter and from letters written by other members of the crew about how the hijacking had affected them. "He was just as much a terrorist to them as to me." "My family had to endure the five days, worrying and wondering what was going to happen," wrote Phillips. Phillips called Muse a "terrorist," said he had endured mock killings at the hands of the pirates, and asked for justice and a "proper sentence" on behalf of "all Merchant Mariners." "I ask for forgiveness from all the people I harmed, including the U.S. government in a New York courtroom today, but instead received nearly the maximum sentence allowed - nearly 34 years in prison.Ībduwali Abdiqadir Muse pled guilty last year to being part of an armed crew that stormed the Maersk Alabama in the Indian Ocean in April 2009 and took its captain, Richard Phillips, hostage for five days.Īt his sentencing Wednesday morning, Muse, clad in a green shirt and khaki slacks, apologized at length for his career as a pirate. 16, 2011 — - A Somali pirate asked for forgiveness from his victims and from the U.S. ![]()
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