On 19 Apr 2005 08:56:54 -0700, wrote:


Hmmm... the natives have been restless!

The following is a summary of the daily reports broadcast
by the IMB's Piracy Reporting Centre to ships in Atlantic,
Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions on the SafetyNET service
of Inmarsat-C from April 4 to April 16th.
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4-04-05 at 0130 LT SW of Sembilan Is., Malacca Straits.

A boat chased a container ship underway on stbd beam and
came close to port quarter. Alarm was raised and crew
mustered. 45 mins later boat abandoned chase.

4-05-05 at 1615 LT Singapore straits.

Seven small boats surrounded a tanker underway. Persons in
one boat attempted to board at stern during heavy rain and
poor visibility. Crew activated fire hoses and ship increased speed.
Boarding was averted.

4-05-05 at 1625 LT Gulf of Oman.

I noticed that a lot of the pirates were repelled with fire hoses. I wonder if
that use is incorporated into the design. A deluge cannon could be a great
defensive weapon, especially if deployed from a good height.

--
Chuck Cox - SynchroSystems
, , www.synchro.com
(my email address is politician-proof, just remove the PORK)

Chuck... To the best of my knowledge it appears that the "main line
of defense" is the vessel's fire hoses. I know that the container
ship that I "hang out" on... the crew would have to use the convent-
ional system of hoses that are positioned through out the ship.

It would seem that at least one water canon type configuration mounted
at the aft section of the poop deck would be a slick safety addition.

While under way... I have heard a lot of attempted boardings occur
from the rear because this is often a void spot for the ship's radar
and an easy access point due to low entry heights.

Best regards

Bill

M/V Polynesia July 2004
" " Sept 2004
" " June 2005

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:50:03 -0400, "Vito" wrote:

"Lee Huddleston" wrote
The answer is to look at the facts. For those Muslims who are
pirates, terrorist, murderers etc. let's punish them severely.....
...... For Christians who murder and steal and try to impose their
religion on everybody else in the world, let's punish them.

You mean like Bush and Delay?

Vito,

Yes!!!!!

Lee H.

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:14:00 -0700, Skipper
wrote:

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 23:36:23 -0400, Joe Bleau
wrote:



It appears that all but one of these many acts of piracy was committed
by Muslims.

Once upon a time the USA had the common sense, the will and the sense
of self preservation to punish pirates, viz the Barbary Pirates who
were severely curtailed by the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marines in the
early 1800s. (Hence "The Shores of Tripoli" in the Marine anthem) It
is worth noting that the Barbary Pirates were also Muslims

Today we could not possibly do so because it would be soooo
politically incorrect to persecute any member of this "great"
religion. Why, the ACLU would have the government in court faster
than a personal injury lawyer at a plane crash site and the "New York
Times" would come out with banner attack headlines. The rest of the
American main-stream media would follow in lock-step.

Flame away, liberal assholes!


If we looked at illegal acts rather than assumed religion, this
could work. How do you know I am not a muslim?

Because a Muslim would call himself "amir al-bahr"?

Heh, just kidding. All monotheists are alike to me. Only sailors are
individuals.

R.

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:34:47 -0700, Skipper
wrote:


Joe

Joe,

You say, "They (Muslims) are allowed to operate schools in our
country where their students are indoctrinated with hatred for our
culture (well, what's left of it)."

These are citizens of our Country; they are part of our culture.
They are part of our culture, just like all the Swiss, Norwegian,
Irish, Morroccian, Spanish, Jamician, Hawaiian, Thai, Chinese, Indian,
and Nigerian (To name only a few.) people who have come here and are
now citizens.
The United States has such a rich heritage because we have a truly
world-wide heritage.


Joe,
Are their others, maybe Joe's church, that hate and speak hatred
about fellow citizens?
Do you do this, yourself?

Illegal acts of piracy on the high seas do not make everyone from
that country or religion bad.

Skipper--

You assume a great deal when you speculate about what they teach at my
church. I do not happen to have one, so don't try to disparage my
reasoning by attempting to associate me with the religious right. I
agree with them on some things as I disagree with them on others.

My thesis is rather simple: Muslims (Yes, Skipper, a generalization)
have been hating those who were not totally adherent to their abberant
religion since Mohammed was practicing pedophelia back in the Sixth
Century. The uninterrupted history of Islam is one of hatred of, and
war against, all unbelievers. They were one of the greatest threats
that has ever existed to Western culture (and all other cultures as
well). They overran the Iberian peninsula and were not thrown out
until Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain forced them out in the 14th
Cent. Charles Martel stopped them in France a few centuries before
that but they persisted in invading and occupying parts of southern
France for a long time after that, burning churches and monasteries
and wreaking havoc wherever they went. They almost overran Europe
again in the 16th Cent. and actually made it to the gates of Vienna
before being turned back by Europeans who, unlike some of the Muslim
defenders in this gorup were willing to fight for the preservation of
their culture (again, not that there is a lot of our culture
left--thanks to the mindless type of imbecil who rushes to defend them
in the name of "tolerance."

Today, the Muslims continue their bloody persecution of their
neighbors and other non-believers throughout the world, in Thailand,
in India, in Africa, in the Philippines, in eastern Europe, in the
former Soviet Union, in the Middle East, even in China. In Africa
they have actually committed genocide and, incidentally, how did you
like their recent slaughter of those innocent school children in
Russia. As these words are being written Muslims (the leftist press
in this country describe them as "extremists," in an attempt to excuse
the main body of Islam) are doing every thing they can to devise a way
of killing hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens right here in
the USA through the acquisition and detonation of an atomic bomb or
through the release of biological agents that could potentially even
kill millions.

Of course there are good Muslims who reject what is being done but
their condemnation of these horrific acts has not exactly been
deafening. Just observe their principal television station Al
Jazeera. That there are good Muslims has absolutely nothing
whatsoever to do with the thrust of Muslim jihad against all the other
people in the world. Islam is a religion of indescribable
intolerance, of bitter hatred for those who do not accept it. For more
than fourteen hundred years Islam has waged bloody wars against those
with whom it disagrees.

The poor misled souls in this NG who rush to defend Islam in the name
of "tolerance" and "non-discrimination" are simpletons who have been
so brainwashed by those who are leading our country and our
civilization down the path of self destruction and cultural suicide
that they don't even recognize how their own existence and that of
their prodigy is in greater danger than they can begin to imagine.

The United States of America, the last superpower, is in graver danger
than it has ever been. It will not be conquered by an alien nation,
it is much too powerful. It will be destroyed from within through
cultural suicide. Sadly we are witnessing that suicide in the type of
comments appearing here. It is just a tad distressing because I had
always harbored an illusion that sailors, because of the self-reliance
and independence that the sea demands, were a more discerning lot. Of
course, not everyone in the NG thinks as Skipper and Huddleston seem
to think but the number of people in America who are on their
wavelength probably constitute the majority. That's why we are in
such danger.

Joe

looks like somebody has had their brain removed by that Mike Savage
fella.

Either that or Joe has two brains. . . one's lost and the other is out
looking for it.

I'm amazed at how these conservatives whine and act victimized --- as
if the liberals were kicking their asses. Lets see, there's a born
again xian republican in the white house, there is a majority rebup.
senate and congress. . .
Gee, I guess you poor conservatives are on the ropes. Espcially with
Fox news the rest of the liberal media bending reality.

Joe Bleau wrote:
horse**** snipped

The United States of America, the last superpower, is in graver danger
than it has ever been.

1. correction: the _current_ superpower
2. you are correct, but sadly you and millions of your fellow sheeple
just don't know why
3. haven't I plonked you yet?

*ploink*

ahh... that's better