A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

is that they are possible going to bring children (future buccaneers)
with them as innocent human shields. Shag a couple boats loaded with
the just and the unjust alike and sooner or later the world court[s]
will hear about it and then condemnation will hit like the swarms of
Egypt.

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

In article 933d9a82-a0c4-4a54-9c0f-733d53524607
@m7g2000vbq.googlegroups.com, says...

is that they are possible going to bring children (future buccaneers)
with them as innocent human shields. Shag a couple boats loaded with
the just and the unjust alike and sooner or later the world court[s]
will hear about it and then condemnation will hit like the swarms of
Egypt.

Is a 14 year old holding an AK-47 on a pirate ship the same as a 14 year
old holding a Glock at the gas station?

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

On Feb 23, 9:51*pm, BAR wrote:
In article 933d9a82-a0c4-4a54-9c0f-733d53524607
@m7g2000vbq.googlegroups.com, says...



is that they are possible going to bring children (future buccaneers)
with them as innocent human shields. * Shag a couple boats loaded with
the just and the unjust alike and sooner or later the world court[s]
will hear about it and then *condemnation will hit like the swarms of
Egypt.

Is a 14 year old holding an AK-47 on a pirate ship the same as a 14 year
old holding a Glock at the gas station?

No, but a 3 yr old sitting there with his mom on a boarding boat is,
though.

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

In article ,
says...

In article 933d9a82-a0c4-4a54-9c0f-733d53524607
@m7g2000vbq.googlegroups.com, says...

is that they are possible going to bring children (future buccaneers)
with them as innocent human shields. Shag a couple boats loaded with
the just and the unjust alike and sooner or later the world court[s]
will hear about it and then condemnation will hit like the swarms of
Egypt.

Is a 14 year old holding an AK-47 on a pirate ship the same as a 14 year
old holding a Glock at the gas station?

It doesn't make any sense. We know the DOD monitors every inch of the
gulf, they surely must know which mother ship a skiff came from. As to
the "world courts", if you vaporize the mother ship and skiffs, there
will be nothing left for court;)

If Obama wanted to, he could stop this overnight...

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:13:36 -0500, I_am_Tosk
wrote:

It doesn't make any sense. We know the DOD monitors every inch of the
gulf, they surely must know which mother ship a skiff came from. As to
the "world courts", if you vaporize the mother ship and skiffs, there
will be nothing left for court;)

Didn't it happen in the Indian Ocean, thousands of square miles?
That's my understanding. There are hundreds if not thousands of
fishing boats out there, all looking a lot alike.

If Obama wanted to, he could stop this overnight...

The problem predates the current administration, no reason to
politicize the discussion.

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

In article ,
says...

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:13:36 -0500, I_am_Tosk
wrote:

It doesn't make any sense. We know the DOD monitors every inch of the
gulf, they surely must know which mother ship a skiff came from. As to
the "world courts", if you vaporize the mother ship and skiffs, there
will be nothing left for court;)

Didn't it happen in the Indian Ocean, thousands of square miles?
That's my understanding. There are hundreds if not thousands of
fishing boats out there, all looking a lot alike.

If Obama wanted to, he could stop this overnight...

The problem predates the current administration, no reason to
politicize the discussion.

Not trying to politicize anything, Obama is the one who can stop it
"now". When Bush was in, I had the same feeling, in fact I am sure I
noted it here.

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

On Feb 23, 8:43*pm, Tim wrote:
is that they are possible going to bring children (future buccaneers)
with them as innocent human shields. * Shag a couple boats loaded with
the just and the unjust alike and sooner or later the world court[s]
will hear about it and then *condemnation will hit like the swarms of
Egypt.

I've heard " rumor story's " of some dudes doing that **** right on
Lake Erie. Looks like its time to carry a Winchester Defender...lol.
#3 SSGs outta do it. Take out the plug, for maximum load.

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:44:26 -0500, I_am_Tosk
wrote:

If Obama wanted to, he could stop this overnight...

The problem predates the current administration, no reason to
politicize the discussion.

Not trying to politicize anything, Obama is the one who can stop it
"now". When Bush was in, I had the same feeling, in fact I am sure I
noted it here.

The loss of 4 lives, fellow boaters, is a tragic event - no question
about it.

If you were president how would you rank it on a scale of national
priorities compared to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, terrorism, Iran,
the economic crisis, the impending food and energy crisis, etc. ??

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:02:13 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:43:51 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

is that they are possible going to bring children (future buccaneers)
with them as innocent human shields. Shag a couple boats loaded with
the just and the unjust alike and sooner or later the world court[s]
will hear about it and then condemnation will hit like the swarms of
Egypt.


That is why I like Plume's idea of drones. We seem to think it is OK
to kill a terrorist and everyone else in the building.

Especially when you do it by remote control and there are no TV crews
around to show it live on the 6 o'clock news. :-)

I think it's all a matter of priorities. Four americans go where
they didn't belong, in a boat, and pay the price. Is that a crisis or
just a personal tragedy for the friends and families involved? It's
not happening every day, and it's not happening on our door step.
Most of the pirates around here are running marinas and boat yards.

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

On Feb 23, 11:23*pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:02:13 -0500, wrote:
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:43:51 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:


Especially when you do it by remote control and there are no TV crews
around to show it live on the 6 o'clock news. * :-)



It would still get to the media Wayne. Seems like that stuff does
anymore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnQp6mLUD_M

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

On Feb 23, 11:23*pm, Wayne.B wrote:

Most of the pirates around here are running marinas and boat yards.

West Marine?

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

In article ,
says...

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:44:26 -0500, I_am_Tosk
wrote:

If Obama wanted to, he could stop this overnight...

The problem predates the current administration, no reason to
politicize the discussion.

Not trying to politicize anything, Obama is the one who can stop it
"now". When Bush was in, I had the same feeling, in fact I am sure I
noted it here.

The loss of 4 lives, fellow boaters, is a tragic event - no question
about it.

If you were president how would you rank it on a scale of national
priorities compared to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, terrorism, Iran,
the economic crisis, the impending food and energy crisis, etc. ??

Any shipping irregularities in that area are a national security
concern.

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

On Feb 23, 11:23*pm, Wayne.B wrote:


Especially when you do it by remote control and there are no TV crews
around to show it live on the 6 o'clock news. * :-)


The media has a way of getting the tapes, Wayne.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnQp6mLUD_M

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

In article ,
says...

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:43:51 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

is that they are possible going to bring children (future buccaneers)
with them as innocent human shields. Shag a couple boats loaded with
the just and the unjust alike and sooner or later the world court[s]
will hear about it and then condemnation will hit like the swarms of
Egypt.


That is why I like Plume's idea of drones. We seem to think it is OK
to kill a terrorist and everyone else in the building.

Would you rather our soldiers just sit there and take fire?

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

In article ,
says...

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:27:14 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

It doesn't make any sense. We know the DOD monitors every inch of the
gulf, they surely must know which mother ship a skiff came from. As to
the "world courts", if you vaporize the mother ship and skiffs, there
will be nothing left for court;)

Didn't it happen in the Indian Ocean, thousands of square miles?
That's my understanding. There are hundreds if not thousands of
fishing boats out there, all looking a lot alike.

I think we have theater surveillance capability sufficient to plot and
track a lot of vessels. Once the operators get a feel for watching
them I bet they can profile out the mother ships pretty quick and
spend most of the effort watching them.

It certainly can't be much harder than tracking terrorists in the
wilds of Pakistan. These ships can't really hide in a cave and come
out somewhere else.

Exactly. Give me a few weeks with the tapes and "I" could probably tell
you who is in a fishing pattern, and who is in a "surveillance"
pattern. A few bucks to a few local fisherman, and you would know
exactly where the fishing areas are, as opposed to the "staging" areas
too.

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

Sorry about the double post to Wayne with the youtube link. i didn't
see that one went though.

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

On 23/02/2011 9:55 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:44:26 -0500, I_am_Tosk
wrote:

If Obama wanted to, he could stop this overnight...

The problem predates the current administration, no reason to
politicize the discussion.

Not trying to politicize anything, Obama is the one who can stop it
"now". When Bush was in, I had the same feeling, in fact I am sure I
noted it here.

The loss of 4 lives, fellow boaters, is a tragic event - no question
about it.

If you were president how would you rank it on a scale of national
priorities compared to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, terrorism, Iran,
the economic crisis, the impending food and energy crisis, etc. ??


Hey, this is simple target practice. Instead of shooting blanks
somewhere get some live round experience.

Some US warship shooting up skiffs isn't a major offensive.


--
Socialism is a great ideal as long as someone else pays for it. And when
no one is left to pay for it, they all can share nothing.

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

In article dd413b8a-dce6-482c-8f1d-c8bdfa1095c0
@k18g2000vbq.googlegroups.com, says...

On Feb 23, 9:51*pm, BAR wrote:
In article 933d9a82-a0c4-4a54-9c0f-733d53524607
@m7g2000vbq.googlegroups.com, says...



is that they are possible going to bring children (future buccaneers)
with them as innocent human shields. * Shag a couple boats loaded with
the just and the unjust alike and sooner or later the world court[s]
will hear about it and then *condemnation will hit like the swarms of
Egypt.

Is a 14 year old holding an AK-47 on a pirate ship the same as a 14 year
old holding a Glock at the gas station?

No, but a 3 yr old sitting there with his mom on a boarding boat is,
though.

What would you do if a guy wore his child on his chest during a robbery?
Would you just let me go?

Too often the USA brings a knife to a gun fight.

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

In article ,
says...

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:13:36 -0500, I_am_Tosk
wrote:

It doesn't make any sense. We know the DOD monitors every inch of the
gulf, they surely must know which mother ship a skiff came from. As to
the "world courts", if you vaporize the mother ship and skiffs, there
will be nothing left for court;)

Didn't it happen in the Indian Ocean, thousands of square miles?
That's my understanding. There are hundreds if not thousands of
fishing boats out there, all looking a lot alike.

If Obama wanted to, he could stop this overnight...

The problem predates the current administration, no reason to
politicize the discussion.

I would venture to say that piracy is the second oldest profession.

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

In article ,
says...

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:44:26 -0500, I_am_Tosk
wrote:

If Obama wanted to, he could stop this overnight...

The problem predates the current administration, no reason to
politicize the discussion.

Not trying to politicize anything, Obama is the one who can stop it
"now". When Bush was in, I had the same feeling, in fact I am sure I
noted it here.

The loss of 4 lives, fellow boaters, is a tragic event - no question
about it.

If you were president how would you rank it on a scale of national
priorities compared to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, terrorism, Iran,
the economic crisis, the impending food and energy crisis, etc. ??

It is one of the highest priorities of the US Navy.

"The mission of the Navy is to maintain, train and equip combat-ready
Naval forces capable of winning wars, deterring aggression and
maintaining freedom of the seas."

"The mission of the United States Navy is to protect and defend the
right of the United States and our allies to move freely on the oceans
and to protect our country against her enemies."

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

In article ,
says...

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:02:13 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:43:51 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

is that they are possible going to bring children (future buccaneers)
with them as innocent human shields. Shag a couple boats loaded with
the just and the unjust alike and sooner or later the world court[s]
will hear about it and then condemnation will hit like the swarms of
Egypt.


That is why I like Plume's idea of drones. We seem to think it is OK
to kill a terrorist and everyone else in the building.

Especially when you do it by remote control and there are no TV crews
around to show it live on the 6 o'clock news. :-)

I think it's all a matter of priorities. Four americans go where
they didn't belong, in a boat, and pay the price. Is that a crisis or
just a personal tragedy for the friends and families involved? It's
not happening every day, and it's not happening on our door step.
Most of the pirates around here are running marinas and boat yards.

Exactly where do Americans belong? Why do our taxes pay for the US Navy?

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

In article ,
says...

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:31:55 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

On Feb 23, 11:23*pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:02:13 -0500, wrote:
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:43:51 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:


Especially when you do it by remote control and there are no TV crews
around to show it live on the 6 o'clock news. * :-)



It would still get to the media Wayne. Seems like that stuff does
anymore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnQp6mLUD_M

The best way to do this would be totally black. Never admit we did
anything. Let the pirates think Allah blew up their boat.
There is no reason they ever have to see the drone that tracked them
or the drone that fired the Hellfire missile

There are too many people involved.

The first problem is the "No ****, there I was..."

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

On Feb 24, 6:11*am, BAR wrote:
In article dd413b8a-dce6-482c-8f1d-c8bdfa1095c0
@k18g2000vbq.googlegroups.com, says...





On Feb 23, 9:51 pm, BAR wrote:
In article 933d9a82-a0c4-4a54-9c0f-733d53524607
@m7g2000vbq.googlegroups.com, says...

is that they are possible going to bring children (future buccaneers)
with them as innocent human shields. Shag a couple boats loaded with
the just and the unjust alike and sooner or later the world court[s]
will hear about it and then condemnation will hit like the swarms of
Egypt.

Is a 14 year old holding an AK-47 on a pirate ship the same as a 14 year
old holding a Glock at the gas station?

No, but a 3 yr old sitting there with his mom *on a boarding boat is,
though.

What would you do if a guy wore his child on his chest during a robbery?
Would you just let me go?

Too often the USA brings a knife to a gun fight.

Don't know about robberies, but that does happen in hostage
situations. It's a tough call but I'd say with the right equipment and
person behind the equipment, they perp could be taken out and the
child spared.

But you usually don't see that happening in a pirate situation with
children on the boarding craft.

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:19:05 -0500, BAR wrote:

Exactly where do Americans belong?

If you are in a strange city at night and someone warns you that
certain neighborhoods are unsafe, would you go there anyway?

If you have the opportunity to go through an unsafe area with a larger
group and ignore that opportunity by going off on your own, who's
fault is it when you get in trouble?

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

"Tim" wrote in message
...

On Feb 24, 6:11 am, BAR wrote:
In article dd413b8a-dce6-482c-8f1d-c8bdfa1095c0
@k18g2000vbq.googlegroups.com, says...





On Feb 23, 9:51 pm, BAR wrote:
In article 933d9a82-a0c4-4a54-9c0f-733d53524607
@m7g2000vbq.googlegroups.com, says...

is that they are possible going to bring children (future
buccaneers)
with them as innocent human shields. Shag a couple boats loaded with
the just and the unjust alike and sooner or later the world court[s]
will hear about it and then condemnation will hit like the swarms of
Egypt.

Is a 14 year old holding an AK-47 on a pirate ship the same as a 14
year
old holding a Glock at the gas station?

No, but a 3 yr old sitting there with his mom on a boarding boat is,
though.

What would you do if a guy wore his child on his chest during a robbery?
Would you just let me go?

Too often the USA brings a knife to a gun fight.

Yeah, you let him go. Shooting through the hostage is only protocol if large
number of lives depend on it, like the bad guys are after your nukes. Not
after the big banks insured funds.

Bring a knife and a gun and the smarts to know which to employ.

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:44:26 -0500, I_am_Tosk
wrote:

If Obama wanted to, he could stop this overnight...

The problem predates the current administration, no reason to
politicize the discussion.

Not trying to politicize anything, Obama is the one who can stop it
"now". When Bush was in, I had the same feeling, in fact I am sure I
noted it here.

The loss of 4 lives, fellow boaters, is a tragic event - no question
about it.

If you were president how would you rank it on a scale of national
priorities compared to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, terrorism, Iran,
the economic crisis, the impending food and energy crisis, etc. ??

=======

I would have to weigh the fact that these people put themselves in harms way
for no more reason than recreation. Unless these people have been living in
a cave somewhere they knew the risks and went anyway. Like the hikers
imprisoned by Iran. We are responsible for our actions.
I think the real success by the war on terror was going after the terrorists
money. Doesn't seem the same effort is going into shutting down the pirates.

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

On 23/02/2011 10:39 PM, I_am_Tosk wrote:
In ,
says...

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:27:14 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

It doesn't make any sense. We know the DOD monitors every inch of the
gulf, they surely must know which mother ship a skiff came from. As to
the "world courts", if you vaporize the mother ship and skiffs, there
will be nothing left for court;)

Didn't it happen in the Indian Ocean, thousands of square miles?
That's my understanding. There are hundreds if not thousands of
fishing boats out there, all looking a lot alike.

I think we have theater surveillance capability sufficient to plot and
track a lot of vessels. Once the operators get a feel for watching
them I bet they can profile out the mother ships pretty quick and
spend most of the effort watching them.

It certainly can't be much harder than tracking terrorists in the
wilds of Pakistan. These ships can't really hide in a cave and come
out somewhere else.

Exactly. Give me a few weeks with the tapes and "I" could probably tell
you who is in a fishing pattern, and who is in a "surveillance"
pattern. A few bucks to a few local fisherman, and you would know
exactly where the fishing areas are, as opposed to the "staging" areas
too.

Good possibility they do both, fish and pirate at the same time. Then
just sink them.

--
Socialism is a great ideal as long as someone else pays for it. And when
no one is left to pay for it, they all can share nothing.

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

On 23/02/2011 11:26 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:31:55 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

On Feb 23, 11:23 pm, wrote:
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:02:13 -0500, wrote:
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:43:51 -0800 (PST),
wrote:


Especially when you do it by remote control and there are no TV crews
around to show it live on the 6 o'clock news. :-)



It would still get to the media Wayne. Seems like that stuff does
anymore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnQp6mLUD_M

The best way to do this would be totally black. Never admit we did
anything. Let the pirates think Allah blew up their boat.
There is no reason they ever have to see the drone that tracked them
or the drone that fired the Hellfire missile

Drones might be good to spot, but an Apache 30mm rounds might be cheaper
than missiles.

--
Socialism is a great ideal as long as someone else pays for it. And when
no one is left to pay for it, they all can share nothing.

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

On 23/02/2011 10:02 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:43:51 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

is that they are possible going to bring children (future buccaneers)
with them as innocent human shields. Shag a couple boats loaded with
the just and the unjust alike and sooner or later the world court[s]
will hear about it and then condemnation will hit like the swarms of
Egypt.


That is why I like Plume's idea of drones. We seem to think it is OK
to kill a terrorist and everyone else in the building.


Why not? If I were sleeping with and feeding the enemy, I then am an
accomplice by association. Boom, blow the whole building. No more
future little terrorists.

--
Socialism is a great ideal as long as someone else pays for it. And when
no one is left to pay for it, they all can share nothing.

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:55:49 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:44:26 -0500, I_am_Tosk
wrote:

If Obama wanted to, he could stop this overnight...

The problem predates the current administration, no reason to
politicize the discussion.

Not trying to politicize anything, Obama is the one who can stop it
"now". When Bush was in, I had the same feeling, in fact I am sure I
noted it here.

The loss of 4 lives, fellow boaters, is a tragic event - no question
about it.

If you were president how would you rank it on a scale of national
priorities compared to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, terrorism, Iran,
the economic crisis, the impending food and energy crisis, etc. ??

For people like this guy, it's one of THE most important things, along
with preventing women from getting proper health care, and fighting
gays over marriage.

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:17:15 -0500, BAR wrote:

In article ,
says...

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:44:26 -0500, I_am_Tosk
wrote:

If Obama wanted to, he could stop this overnight...

The problem predates the current administration, no reason to
politicize the discussion.

Not trying to politicize anything, Obama is the one who can stop it
"now". When Bush was in, I had the same feeling, in fact I am sure I
noted it here.

The loss of 4 lives, fellow boaters, is a tragic event - no question
about it.

If you were president how would you rank it on a scale of national
priorities compared to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, terrorism, Iran,
the economic crisis, the impending food and energy crisis, etc. ??

It is one of the highest priorities of the US Navy.

"The mission of the Navy is to maintain, train and equip combat-ready
Naval forces capable of winning wars, deterring aggression and
maintaining freedom of the seas."

"The mission of the United States Navy is to protect and defend the
right of the United States and our allies to move freely on the oceans
and to protect our country against her enemies."

See what I mean Wayne?

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:07:08 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:27:14 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

It doesn't make any sense. We know the DOD monitors every inch of the
gulf, they surely must know which mother ship a skiff came from. As to
the "world courts", if you vaporize the mother ship and skiffs, there
will be nothing left for court;)

Didn't it happen in the Indian Ocean, thousands of square miles?
That's my understanding. There are hundreds if not thousands of
fishing boats out there, all looking a lot alike.

I think we have theater surveillance capability sufficient to plot and
track a lot of vessels. Once the operators get a feel for watching
them I bet they can profile out the mother ships pretty quick and
spend most of the effort watching them.

It certainly can't be much harder than tracking terrorists in the
wilds of Pakistan. These ships can't really hide in a cave and come
out somewhere else.

I agree, but I think Wayne has a good point.. in the scheme of things,
it seems pretty low priority. Not saying it shouldn't be done, but
these people clearly knew the risks. I believe they were warned more
than once.

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:02:13 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:43:51 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

is that they are possible going to bring children (future buccaneers)
with them as innocent human shields. Shag a couple boats loaded with
the just and the unjust alike and sooner or later the world court[s]
will hear about it and then condemnation will hit like the swarms of
Egypt.


That is why I like Plume's idea of drones. We seem to think it is OK
to kill a terrorist and everyone else in the building.

I don't think that's ok at all. This rarely happens these days.
Mostly, these people are out and about.

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:22:05 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:20:15 -0500, BAR wrote:

In article ,
says...

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:31:55 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

On Feb 23, 11:23*pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:02:13 -0500, wrote:
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:43:51 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:


Especially when you do it by remote control and there are no TV crews
around to show it live on the 6 o'clock news. * :-)



It would still get to the media Wayne. Seems like that stuff does
anymore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnQp6mLUD_M

The best way to do this would be totally black. Never admit we did
anything. Let the pirates think Allah blew up their boat.
There is no reason they ever have to see the drone that tracked them
or the drone that fired the Hellfire missile

There are too many people involved.

The first problem is the "No ****, there I was..."

That is an internal problem in the US that should be addressed. Maybe
when that Manning kid gets 20 years in Leavenworth people will start
respecting the security clearances they have.
The "good democrat" president, FDR, would have had Manning shot by now

Those were different times and the circumstances are totally
different. That said, I do think he should go to prison for a long
time. He broke the law. I don't think he should be isolated and
perhaps psychologically tortured, which is what seems to be happening

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:55:11 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:19:05 -0500, BAR wrote:

Exactly where do Americans belong?

If you are in a strange city at night and someone warns you that
certain neighborhoods are unsafe, would you go there anyway?

If you have the opportunity to go through an unsafe area with a larger
group and ignore that opportunity by going off on your own, who's
fault is it when you get in trouble?

Correct. Of course, I think we (as a nation) should try and help
them.. all means at our disposal.

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:25:01 -0500, "MMC" wrote:

I think the real success by the war on terror was going after the terrorists
money. Doesn't seem the same effort is going into shutting down the pirates.

The Somali pirates are an annoying gnat by comparison (unless you are
personally involved of course).

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:25:33 -0800, wrote:

If you were president how would you rank it on a scale of national
priorities compared to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, terrorism, Iran,
the economic crisis, the impending food and energy crisis, etc. ??

For people like this guy, it's one of THE most important things, along
with preventing women from getting proper health care, and fighting
gays over marriage.

That strikes me as another one of your knee jerk irrational posts.
Are there more women not getting proper health care than men? I'd
have guessed that it was probably split about 50/50. And what is the
big issue with gay marriage? For about 5,000 years of recorded
history marriages took place between men and women. Why has that
concept suddenly changed, at least in the minds of some?

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:30:46 -0800, wrote:

I don't think he should be isolated and
perhaps psychologically tortured, which is what seems to be happening

You're right about that. He should be in with a bunch of hardened
criminals like everyone else. There's only one problem: I don't
think he's gone to trial yet, and if he was locked up with hardened
criminals, he'd probably never make it to the court room.

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

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says...

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:25:33 -0800, wrote:

If you were president how would you rank it on a scale of national
priorities compared to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, terrorism, Iran,
the economic crisis, the impending food and energy crisis, etc. ??

For people like this guy, it's one of THE most important things, along
with preventing women from getting proper health care, and fighting
gays over marriage.

That strikes me as another one of your knee jerk irrational posts.
Are there more women not getting proper health care than men? I'd
have guessed that it was probably split about 50/50. And what is the
big issue with gay marriage? For about 5,000 years of recorded
history marriages took place between men and women. Why has that
concept suddenly changed, at least in the minds of some?

Because Obama is dithering with the marriage crap again as a deflection
from his organized destruction of our economy.

A problem with deep-sixing pirates....
 

On Feb 24, 12:22*pm, wrote:


That is an internal problem in the US that should be addressed. Maybe
when that Manning kid gets 20 years in Leavenworth people will start
respecting the security clearances they have.
The "good democrat" president, FDR, would have had Manning shot by now

you know good and well that Hoover would have.