note to UN : Stop the pirates!!

[RIJIMMY]

what law? we have satellites that can see my house, we cant find the home ports and send some Apaches to sink their boats? monitor the waters and sink anything that moves near a ship? I know it sounds simple but come on. I have now have my entire cd collection on a thing the size of a calculator. We can do it.

60 years ago we were able to destroy the enitire german u-boat effort, with as much technology thats in my refridgerator.

[JohnR]

RIJ - and when the pirates look and act like local fishernen or the local fishermen act like priates (gee the legitimate fishermen have AK's on board their vessels) who's village you going to blow away with an Apache?

Oh, now you have a MEU 40 miles off Somalia to support your Apache (well, Cobra actually). Now you've blown away a village by diverting upwards of 20 BILLION in equipment and 3000 sailors and marines to thwack some pirates in a couple boats.

Hammer, meet Nail.

Or, (sadly) get the Interneational Community to agree on a set of rules that everyone can act on .

But, this being the first time US sailors on a US Flagged vessel were boarded, maybe this is time to reinstitute one of the primary historical missions of the US Navy. Anti-Piracy.

RUMINT on GCaptain and EagleSpeak

[spence]

Originally Posted by JohnR

RIJ - and when the pirates look and act like local fishernen or the local fishermen act like priates (gee the legitimate fishermen have AK's on board their vessels) who's village you going to blow away with an Apache?

I think a lot of the problem is that the pirates often simply are fisherman looking for a more profitable line of work.

-spence

[Nebe]

all those tankers have to do is lay a minefield of thumb tacks on the decks.

Maybe Halliburton can sell the gubmint tacks at $5 a piece..

Im serious by the way.. Those pirate dudes are always barefoot.

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by spence

I think a lot of the problem is that the pirates often simply are fisherman looking for a more profitable line of work.

-spence

I would say it is the Warlords and psuedo tribal guvmints raising more money in Piracy than the "national" (chuckle) GDP. A failed nation and economy where the only law is the tribe and the warlord. Sometimes hard to fathom that something as broken as Somalia can have more broken internal parts. Damn shame.

(of course I just reread your post again, and yeh, probalby were once fishermen. In the same note, some of us would be Run Runners 90 years or so ago . Still think send in the SEALS and "arrest" them.)

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by JohnR

Still think send in the SEALS and "arrest" them.)

Yup, just let them do their job.

UN is useless.

[likwid]

Since January, pirates have staged 66 attacks, and they are still holding 14 ships and 260 crew members as hostages, according to the International Maritime Bureau, a watchdog group based in Kuala Lumpur.

But who cares, it only matters when there's Americans on board.

[RIJIMMY]

Originally Posted by spence

I think a lot of the problem is that the pirates often simply are fisherman looking for a more profitable line of work.

-spence

you truly are the most lefty wack job I have ever met.