Betcha there are a few in Wash DC breathing a sigh of relief.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/piracy

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Betcha there are a few in Wash DC breathing a sigh of relief.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/piracy


AP now reporting that two of the *pirates* escaped with the ship's captain.
The plot thickens.

D.Duck wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message
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Betcha there are a few in Wash DC breathing a sigh of relief.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/piracy


AP now reporting that two of the *pirates* escaped with the ship's captain.
The plot thickens.





U.S. flagged vessels with union crews do get some training in repelling
boarders. I hope a deal can be made for the captain's life.

--
Palin & Bachmann in 2012 -
All Stupidity All the Time

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D.Duck wrote:
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Betcha there are a few in Wash DC breathing a sigh of relief.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/piracy


AP now reporting that two of the *pirates* escaped with the ship's
captain. The plot thickens.



U.S. flagged vessels with union crews do get some training in repelling
boarders. I hope a deal can be made for the captain's life.

--
Palin & Bachmann in 2012 -
All Stupidity All the Time

I hope the companies rethink their attitude towards an unarmed crew. And I
hope the best for the captain.

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D.Duck wrote:
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Betcha there are a few in Wash DC breathing a sigh of relief.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/piracy


AP now reporting that two of the *pirates* escaped with the ship's
captain. The plot thickens.



U.S. flagged vessels with union crews do get some training in repelling
boarders. I hope a deal can be made for the captain's life.

--
Palin & Bachmann in 2012 -
All Stupidity All the Time

I would put a noose around all the pirates that are captured on the ship and
line them up along the rail. Inform the ones with the captain that if
anything happens to the captain or they leave the area, the ones on the rail
will head to the sea.

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D.Duck wrote:
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Betcha there are a few in Wash DC breathing a sigh of relief.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/piracy


AP now reporting that two of the *pirates* escaped with the ship's
captain. The plot thickens.



U.S. flagged vessels with union crews do get some training in repelling
boarders. I hope a deal can be made for the captain's life.

--
Palin & Bachmann in 2012 -
All Stupidity All the Time

I would put a noose around all the pirates that are captured on the ship
and line them up along the rail. Inform the ones with the captain that if
anything happens to the captain or they leave the area, the ones on the
rail will head to the sea.


Do you think the captains captors care? (say that fast three times)

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D.Duck wrote:
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Betcha there are a few in Wash DC breathing a sigh of relief.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/piracy


AP now reporting that two of the *pirates* escaped with the ship's
captain. The plot thickens.



U.S. flagged vessels with union crews do get some training in repelling
boarders. I hope a deal can be made for the captain's life.

--
Palin & Bachmann in 2012 -
All Stupidity All the Time

I would put a noose around all the pirates that are captured on the ship
and line them up along the rail. Inform the ones with the captain that
if anything happens to the captain or they leave the area, the ones on
the rail will head to the sea.


Do you think the captains captors care? (say that fast three times)


Actually yes. They have to explain to the other people in the "village" why
they let the others hang. Same village, so they care.

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 13:12:18 -0700, "Calif Bill"
wrote:


I would put a noose around all the pirates that are captured on the ship and
line them up along the rail. Inform the ones with the captain that if
anything happens to the captain or they leave the area, the ones on the rail
will head to the sea.

I was watching Glenn Beck a while ago and for once he said something
that might have made sense.
"Where are the Marines?"
Keeping a fast reaction force in that area and just plain kicking ass
when an American flagged ship is touched would stop it cold.
Take no prisoners.
I got a feeling it won't be done because of crew safety and
"environmental" considerations.
Sticky problem. The Mayaguez and Iran hostage situations are probably
studied to make these kinds of decisions.
Remember the Q-ships? Merchant ships with hidden guns.
Maybe it was all a John Wayne movie.
Tripoli was assaulted to stop the pirates before.
Might take a land assault to stop it this time.
It's weird to think that 204 years after the Barbary pirates, we're
back to the same problem.
Actually, Somalia is less "civilized" than was Tripoli.
There was a leader of Tripoli to make peace with.

--Vic

Vic Smith wrote:
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 13:12:18 -0700, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

I would put a noose around all the pirates that are captured on the ship and
line them up along the rail. Inform the ones with the captain that if
anything happens to the captain or they leave the area, the ones on the rail
will head to the sea.

I was watching Glenn Beck a while ago and for once he said something
that might have made sense.
"Where are the Marines?"
Keeping a fast reaction force in that area and just plain kicking ass
when an American flagged ship is touched would stop it cold.
Take no prisoners.
I got a feeling it won't be done because of crew safety and
"environmental" considerations.
Sticky problem. The Mayaguez and Iran hostage situations are probably
studied to make these kinds of decisions.
Remember the Q-ships? Merchant ships with hidden guns.
Maybe it was all a John Wayne movie.
Tripoli was assaulted to stop the pirates before.
Might take a land assault to stop it this time.
It's weird to think that 204 years after the Barbary pirates, we're
back to the same problem.
Actually, Somalia is less "civilized" than was Tripoli.
There was a leader of Tripoli to make peace with.

--Vic


The ship, its contents, and ransom money are just property, a commodity
much less valuable than the lives of the ship crews.

--
Palin & Bachmann in 2012 -
All Stupidity All the Time

"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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I was watching Glenn Beck a while ago and for once he said something
that might have made sense.
"Where are the Marines?"
Keeping a fast reaction force in that area and just plain kicking ass
when an American flagged ship is touched would stop it cold.
Take no prisoners.
I got a feeling it won't be done because of crew safety and
"environmental" considerations.
Sticky problem. The Mayaguez and Iran hostage situations are probably
studied to make these kinds of decisions.
Remember the Q-ships? Merchant ships with hidden guns.
Maybe it was all a John Wayne movie.
Tripoli was assaulted to stop the pirates before.
Might take a land assault to stop it this time.
It's weird to think that 204 years after the Barbary pirates, we're
back to the same problem.
Actually, Somalia is less "civilized" than was Tripoli.
There was a leader of Tripoli to make peace with.

--Vic


Interestingly, the first military action taken by the United States after
we became an independent nation was against the Barbary pirates who were
doing exactly the same thing then as the Somali pirates are doing today.
They were capturing European ships and demanding ransom payments. They
then began attacking US ships. At first Congress appropriated money to be
paid as ransom but Thomas Jefferson had some balls and led the effort to
confront them. We didn't really have a global Navy at the time, but what
we had were sent to the Med and they took care of business.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collecti.../mtjprece.html

Eisboch