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Barry and the Pirates
American Thinker ^
| April 18, 2010
| J.R. Dunn
Posted on 04/18/2010 10:03:39 PM PDT by neverdem
The government of Kenya is no longer accepting pirates captured by the international task force operating in the Red Sea and approaches. Kenya claims that its justice system is overloaded with Somali pirates and that it just can't handle any more of them. This policy was initiated with no warning or even a public announcement.
The task force has already started cutting loose pirates caught in the act. A
Dutch vessel did so early last week, followed by a
U.S. Navy destroyer that tossed back a crew that had actually opened fire with RPGs.
This is obviously a situation that cannot be maintained. Those clowns have to be locked up somewhere. To do otherwise -- to continue throwing them back like so many underweight trout -- will turn the entire business into a game and simply encourage the vast punk population of Somalia to try their luck.
Which raises the question: what world leader happens to have close relatives serving in the government of Kenya? That's right -- none other than the Obamessiah himself. His father, Barack Sr., was an economist in the first post-colonial government. One of his half-brothers, Malik Obongo Obama, is a rising political star, and I'm sure you wouldn't have to throw many stones to hit a cousin or two employed by various ministries. Obama has more personal pull in Kenya than in any other country in the world.
Yet what has he done to address Kenya's sudden dash for the exit? Nothing at all, as far as can be seen. A number of possible solutions suggest themselves -- international funds to the cover the costs of imprisonment, private prison companies encouraged to open facilities in the area, the Organization of African States persuaded to step in. There are no doubt plenty of other possibilities that could be suggested by people more familiar with East Africa than I am.
And yet, it appears that Obama is simply going to ignore the entire impasse, to give it the silent treatment as he does with everything else that isn't of immediate benefit to him. Not a single word has been heard from the White House involving Kenya, and nobody from his lapdog media has seen fit to bring it up. Does anyone care to bet how long it will be before we see any action?
Of course, that's his prerogative. He's president, and presidents get to choose which battles they fight. But if he truly can't handle something so close to home, a problem where he has actual personal contacts to draw on, then maybe he should start thinking twice about posing as the grand redeemer where infinitely more difficult challenges such as Mideast peace and nuclear proliferation are concerned.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: democrat; democrats; impeachobama; kenya; obama; piracy; pirates; somalia; somalipirates
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posted on
04/18/2010 10:03:39 PM PDT
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
You would think the international community would remember why God made yardarms...
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posted on
04/18/2010 10:08:18 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Craven spirits wear their master's collars but real men would rather feed the battlefield's vultures)
To: freedumb2003
Yup, military trial at sea, swing on execution dock, or the yardarm.
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posted on
04/18/2010 10:12:21 PM PDT
by
Bobalu
(Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
To: neverdem
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posted on
04/18/2010 10:13:34 PM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum!)
To: freedumb2003
Pelosi and Reid might remember this too:
Article I, Sect. 8. The Congress shall have power: ...To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations
We don't need Kenya; we just need folks in Congress who aren't too busy claiming imaginary powers to use their real ones.
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posted on
04/18/2010 10:29:30 PM PDT
by
JohnBovenmyer
(Remember 321)
To: neverdem
I guess walking the plank is politically incorrect these days...
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posted on
04/18/2010 10:30:14 PM PDT
by
JohnLongIsland
( schmuckie schucks)
To: neverdem
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posted on
04/18/2010 10:35:19 PM PDT
by
Bobalu
(Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
To: neverdem
Send their vessels to Davey Jones and steam away.
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posted on
04/18/2010 11:34:36 PM PDT
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: neverdem
Why do any of those pirates survive to return to shore?
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posted on
04/18/2010 11:42:18 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
To: neverdem
Toss them back like underweight trout. In the ocean.
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posted on
04/19/2010 12:55:04 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: TXnMA
Why of all people is Barack Obama wishing these pirates on Kenya of all places? It can’t be to return some favor.
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posted on
04/19/2010 12:57:00 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: neverdem
Kenya claims that its justice system is overloaded with Somali pirates and that it just can’t handle any more of them
Dont see any problem, guilty,bang,next. Should have the courts cleared in about a week.
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posted on
04/19/2010 4:08:57 AM PDT
by
bikerman
(Impeachment ! Has a nice ring to it dont you think?)
To: neverdem
Dunn's just pulling Magic's chain. He doesn't expect him to do anything.
To: neverdem
Those clowns have to be locked up somewhere.Davey Jones' locker would be the most appropriate lockup!
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posted on
04/19/2010 6:36:50 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(To water the Tree of Liberty is to excise a cancer before it kills us. TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
To: neverdem
followed by a U.S. Navy destroyer that tossed back a crew that had actually opened fire with RPGs. I have no problem tossing them back, as long as we destroy their boat first.
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posted on
04/19/2010 7:00:15 AM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(Now can we forget about that old rum-runner Joe Kennedy and his progeny of philandering drunks?)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Maybe some of his buddies in Kenya want some slaves...
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posted on
04/19/2010 7:40:09 AM PDT
by
TXnMA
To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Kenya is no longer accepting pirates captured by the international task force operating in the Red Sea and approaches.
Thanks neverdem.
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posted on
04/20/2010 3:22:23 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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