How do we stop piracy?

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/13/how-do-we-stop-piracy/ ^ | April 13, 2009 | Ed Morrissey

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Just give us some time to blow the men down.”

Barney Frank would approve.

[massgopguy]

Data Mine the Internet. Key word “arrrrrrrrrrr.”

[Radix]

Bullets.

[NCC-1701]

How do we stop piracy?

This is how:

[Zionist Conspirator]

How do we stop piracy?

Don't download songs and videos without paying for them?

[Delacon]

“Don’t download songs and videos without paying for them”?

There’s one in every bunch.

[RasterMaster]

Simple answer....

[PzLdr]

At sea? Cannon is the traditonal method. On land? If captured, rope.

[PzLdr]

Depends on when ‘before’ is. Caesar and a series of crosses come to mind if you’re talking antiquity.

[Rockitz]

It’s not rocket science, is it?

Apparently not. I've been waiting for the call all week. ;o)

[PizzaDriver]

If the owners of Ships with U.S. registrations could claim 102% of the cost of a Liability Insurance rider covering Armed Crews as a tax deduction; those ships would be safer, sooner.

[sig226]

Torpedos are expensive. Five inch guns are also more funner.

[Gritty]

How do we stop piracy? Getting rid of the current crop of pirates in Washington would be a good first step!

The Washington pirates are stealing trillions from us and holding us, our children, and our grandchildren hostages for ransom.

The Somali pirates are only boarding or stealing a few ships for chump change. We can live with them. But we can't survive much longer with the Washington pirates in charge and running our ship!

[CaptRon]

All of these solutions are right, but the devil is in the details.

While it's true that the best deterrent is to kild the thugs, the area of their operation is what?; 1 million square miles?! And I might be off by a factor of 10.

I believe that true deterrence has less to do with punishment, but the surety of discovery and capture. Burglars continue to burgle because they blieve the odds are on their side.

Until the worlds countries of the world find this out and work together to do this, it will go on.The U.S. does not have the assets to do it alone.

[UCANSEE2]

Markets aren’t free when they are held hostage to pirates.

And..... the cost of the ransoms is added to the price of everything you buy.

[Owl558]

“Nope, the U.S. is *not* the best one to do it...and the other countries’ ships are *on their own*”

All we need to do is send these shipping companies the bill for all U.S. anti-piracy operations and stop unloading their ships in U.S. ports until said bills are paid in full.

You’ll see the laws against piracy enforced and the problem will disappear very quickly, I should think. And U.S. taxpayers won’t have to pay for it.

[Star Traveler]

You said — And U.S. taxpayers won’t have to pay for it.

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That would be good, but I would have to see that one in detail before I would go along with it.... :-)

[Delacon]

Good point.

[Delacon]

“Those who remember George Satayana are doomed to repeat him”

LOL. I like that. My wife and I were watching an episode of Corner Gas the other night and couldn’t stop laughing when one of the characters said “A pen in the hand is mightier than the bush”.

[GingisK]

I’m sure Thomas Jefferson’s Administration left some notes somewhere concerning how they accomplished that act.