Posted on 04/16/2020 7:44:58 AM PDT by robowombat
MAERSK offshore supply tug attacked in Gulf of Mexico Erofey Schkvarkin News April 15, 2020 1:51 pm
Offshore tug, supply ship MAERSK TRANSPORTER was attacked and boarded by armed pirates at night Apr 12 in Gulf of Mexico off Cuidad Del Carmen, Mexico, roughly in the same area where 3 days earlier Italian supply ship REMAS was attacked. Attack was carried out in same manner, too.
http://www.maritimebulletin.net/2020/04/14/italian-offshore-ship-boarded-by-armed-pirates-in-mexico-waters-video/
Pirates took several crew as hostages and looted the ship, taking with valuable items. Crew luckily, weren’t hurt.
Offshore tug, supply ship MAERSK TRANSPORTER, IMO 9388649, GT 4678, built 2009, flag Denmark, manager MAERSK SUPPLY SERVICE AS.
Mexican Somalians ? The scourge of the low seas I guess.
Kill thsee pirates with extreme prejudice, don’t leave even scraps large enough for the buzzards.
The only way to respond is with disproportionate violence, nip it in the bud.
LOL!
Where’s the Coast Guard?
Russians would know what to do.
Looks like our Mexican amigos are offshoring their violent culture.
Undocumented pirates. Schumer and Pelosi call for them to receive stimulus loot.
Maybe hire a few.
Well, yes. The quisling wusses of the American Left were engineered by the Soviets to be incapable of sustaining our civilization. That includes them coddling crime. But the Soviets never would tolerate that PC useful idiot crap on their soil and so it’s somewhat missing from what remains after the Soviet Union.
The Coast Guard is busy manning our submarine nets for Iranian and Chinese and other bad actors who have been gaming/planning their coordinated sneak submarine missile attack for over a decade. Their is a multi facet attack against the west and the virus is but one of the major vectors of attack.
The US and China are actually at war. China was actually winning the visible part of that war, the trade war, until Donald Trump was elected in our nation stood up to fight for our survival economically. China is not amused.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. I'm not. If these pirates beached their boat in Texas today and waded ashore these are exactly the kinds of people Pelosi and Schumer want to give our money to, they wouldn't bat an eye. They'd give them stimulus checks, free healthcare, get out of jail free cards, and want them to vote in the election. Not sarcasm, utter contempt and loathing for the likes of Schumer and Pelosi.
I was serious while trying to create a smile at the same time.
What I think is going on is the Wall and the militarization of the border is making it difficult for MS-13 types to continue making their illicit trade and murder for hire profits, that some of their related bad hombres are resorting to piracy at sea.
That’s what makes sense to me.
This is a side effect of serious enhanced border control.
Moslems, by any chance? I know there is a population of them south of the border.
I didn’t know Jimmy Buffet speaks Spanish.
Teenager I knew (when I was a teen) left a small port in NW Fla in 1970 with his dad to sail across the Gulf down to S. Fla. They had met a couple of women in the town before they left, and his dad let the women come with them.
The boat disappeared in the Gulf of Mexico, no trace ever found of the boat or the occupants. There were no storms in the Gulf and no distress calls. Law enforcement was pretty sure the women were working with drug smugglers, and that he and his dad were killed out in the Gulf and their boat stolen. I always thought it was irresponsible of his dad to let strangers on board the boat. Then again, in 1970 you didn’t think about drug smugglers too much. That changed in the next few years and it became apparent there was a lot of smuggling activity taking place.
Trump must Respond.
I know someone who was a hostage at one point. Very touch and go, on the Indian Ocean
Maybe this is why Trump increased the navy presence in the area...
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