Posted on 04/11/2009 11:04:18 AM PDT by NYPNorth
For a young Somali, piracy's a glamorous profession, the local equivalent of being a Manhattan hedge-fund manager a few years back: His risk is minimal, the rewards are huge - and there's no punishment for pillaging other people's wealth.
Just as we encouraged those strutting wizards of finance not long ago, we now embolden pirates.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
From the yardarm, whatever a yardarm is.
In a few years, they’ll be declared freedom fighters, then a pirate leader will emerge who’ll be called a statesman and who will win the Nobel Peace Prize.
How many cheeks do we have to turn to this impostor?
Just like Arafat...
The yardarm is that, which when the sun is over it, it’s time for a drink.
I wonder whose side the congressional black caucus is on ?
odd equivocation between murdering pirates kidnapping folks and hedge fund managers.
people who invest in hedge funds (like me) know it’s high risk and illiquid.
class envy reporters
A simple international agreement to place a $10,000 bounty
on pirates - “dead or alive” would solve the problem forever.
Ralph Peters says we should hang the pirates. Quality idea
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The idea has merit on its face, but unfortunately America has no quality gibbet builders left.
Probably a better idea just to make them shark feed.
Given that the pirates are Bantu descended care to take a lucky guess Sherlocke?
Peters showing his sound thinking again.
However- no need for hanging- the Obama DoJ is on the cse- they’ve opened - gasp - a “criminal investigation” into the piracy matter.
Look for Miranda to be read to pirates soon...
“The yardarm is that, which when the sun is over it, it’s time for a drink.”
Thank you for clearing that up for me.
It was written in their Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every muslim who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise. He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy's ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once. [2] [3]
Jefferson reported the conversation to Secretary of State John Jay, who submitted the Ambassador's comments and offer to Congress. Jefferson argued that paying tribute would encourage more attacks...
From Wikipedia... sounds like the same pirates...
And hang the folks in the state department, too!
and some strange moral equivalence.
Here's the deal.....
What makes you think these muslim pirates would care that their wives’ throats were slit? Women are worthless and interchangeable in their world.
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