1 posted on
10/29/2007 8:16:36 AM PDT by
blam
To: blam
2 posted on
10/29/2007 8:17:22 AM PDT by
null and void
(Franz Kafka would have killed himself in despair if he lived in the world we inhabit today.)
To: blam
Hard to believe there are still pirates in the world. Even when I was a kid I thought they were the stuff of legends.
3 posted on
10/29/2007 8:20:07 AM PDT by
Rennes Templar
("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
To: blam
I’m still amazed they don’t put guns on the decks of these ships.
4 posted on
10/29/2007 8:23:36 AM PDT by
Terpfen
(It's your fault, not Pelosi's.)
To: blam
To: blam
nijas vs pirates. Looks like the pirates win this time. arrrrrgh
8 posted on
10/29/2007 8:31:42 AM PDT by
ari-freedom
(I am for traditional moral values, a strong national defense, and free markets.)
To: blam
A brace of 20mm guns is enough. How hard is it to mount those?
9 posted on
10/29/2007 8:38:29 AM PDT by
Seruzawa
(Attila the Hun... wasn't he a liberal?)
To: blam
Of all the nations on the Earth, I think the Phillipines have the best punishment for pirates. The law on the books says “electrocuted until they catch fire.”
11 posted on
10/29/2007 8:43:28 AM PDT by
BuffaloJack
(Before the government can give you a dollar it must first take it from another American)
To: blam
Off the coast of Somalia??? I put money on the probability that they are Muslim pirates.
13 posted on
10/29/2007 8:45:30 AM PDT by
Anti-Hillary
(Anyone but Hitlery)
To: blam
How about the US Navy quietly creating a Qship that looks like a normal tanker/freighter, but contains a couple of squads of heavily armed Marines along with a couple of concealed M2’s and a 40mm cannon? Then send it in trolling in these areas.
To: blam
They want what all pirates want. Rum and women.
22 posted on
10/29/2007 9:06:50 AM PDT by
Enterprise
(Those who "betray us" also "Betray U.S." They're called DEMOCRATS!)
To: blam
Blackwater Security should go nautical.
24 posted on
10/29/2007 9:09:34 AM PDT by
AU72
To: blam
Dangerous Waters is a book that shows the 21st century pirate problem is increasing, not abating.
Piracy are getting worse, especially around the Muslim countries - although there is a problem in this hemisphere as well. Some parts of the global oceans and waterways are essentially lawless. Even the largest ships, such as super tankers, are habitually in danger and frequently boarded and robbed by bands of pirates. Sometimes the ships are actually hijacked, the crew murdered or put in slavery, and the ships turned into false-flagged "ghost" ships, run by criminal syndicates for stolen or dangerous cargo. They can also be used as part of an Al Qaeda Navy.
Heaven help you if you are on a private boat trying to navigate some of these waters!
48 posted on
10/29/2007 10:35:39 AM PDT by
Gritty
(We are now into the first great war between nations and networks - John Arquilla)
To: blam
Boarding a large vessel that doesn't want to be boarded isn't so easy. Even if the small craft gets close enough to attach grappling hooks, 6 inch water cannons aimed into the small craft should be able to ruin the pirates day.
What's probably needed on the merchant vessels is an ability to remotely operate the water cannons in order to protect the crew from direct fire.
50 posted on
10/29/2007 10:42:56 AM PDT by
fso301
To: blam
They should take THEIR problem to the UN. Maybe THEY will get better results for their ship/cargo/crew than we did with our 3000 civilian graves.
54 posted on
10/29/2007 10:59:10 AM PDT by
SMARTY
("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus)
To: blam
Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late
The cannons dont thunder, theres nothin to plunder
Im an over-forty victim of fate
Arriving too late, arriving too late
---Jimmy Buffett, A Pirate Looks At Forty
Hmmm. Looks like Jimmy Buffett was wrong. There still are pirates plundering.
60 posted on
10/29/2007 2:47:00 PM PDT by
mc5cents
(Show me just what Mohammd brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman)
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