Captain of "Audacity of Hope" Under Arrest in Greece

Arutz Sheva ^ | 2/7/11 | INN Staff

[Iron Munro]

"...has signed an appeal for funds to outfit a ship–to be named The Audacity of Hope after Barack Obama’s second book

Based on Obama's admission that he was a doper they should have named it "The Audacity of a Coke Head".

[ScaniaBoy]

The blogger Carl in Jerusalem posted a video with underwater footage of the first boat in the flotilla that was said to have been sabotaged. I've watched it and don't think those damages look like "sabotage", but let's see if there are any Freepers with experience of such things who will weigh in.

The man on the video (the captain?) is speaking Greek - anyone there to translate?

[mojito]

Hysterical. This displays all the usual competence and solid planning of a far-left enterprise.

[Tucker39]

“the Israeli’s must have brought the Greeks to Jesus.”

I don’t think you MEANT it to be, but that is quite a scene to comtemplate: “The Israelis bringing the Greeks to JESUS!”

Not exactly mixed-metaphors. I don’t know WHAT to call it. ;oD

[JPG]

I meant it exactly how you perceived it. Crazy times call for inventive metaphors.

[Norm Lenhart]

I really think that BO had a SEAL team or American operators of some type sab the boat and intervined directly with Greek Politicos. Think about it. His ‘catch phrase’ was getting too much public attention and the tide, no pun intended, is turning against these idiots.

He did NOT want the association if Israel found anything on those boats or were attacked by rabid leftist/muslim terrorists after Benji announced they were not backing down.

PR nightmare.

[Feckless]

Now if we could just arrest the one from the Mother Ship.....

[UCANSEE2]

I really think that BO had a SEAL team or American operators of some type sab the boat and intervined directly with Greek Politicos. Think about it. His ‘catch phrase’ was getting too much public attention and the tide, no pun intended, is turning against these idiots.

I disagree. I think that these idiots needed some boats, and some Captain(s) chartered out two of the unsafest and broke down boats they could find.

It's always about the money.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“The man on the video (the captain?) is speaking Greek - anyone there to translate? “

My Greek is a bit rusty but it sounds like for what they spent on this flotilla they could have bought Greece and given it to the Palestinians.

[La Enchiladita]

It figures he couldn’t resist trying to hit back after he was publicly schooled by Netanyahu a few weeks ago upon Bibi’s visit to Washington, D.C.

[Norm Lenhart]

That is a very real possibility. Like the saying goes - Never attribute to malice what can be explained by simple stupidity.

[La Enchiladita]

More from the first mooslime president: The grand jihad is right on schedule

[Nebr FAL owner]

No don’t blow it up! The mad mohamadens & the assorted camp followers will claim it was an act of war/terror, instead just have a grease fire in the galley that literally burns that garbage scow to the water line ,Israeli navy then performs search & rescue ops with film crews on hand to show that the Isreaeli navy will even save a half drown rat.