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- dcodrea, on 04/11/2009, -3/+56Simple solutions: bounties and pirate hunt cruises.
Turn them into a commodity. - Bitey42, on 04/12/2009, -4/+45Plan:
1. Send out a solid gold trojan horse style boat through there.
2. Pack it with navy seals armed with BFGs.
3. When, not if, they attack, blow up 98% of them.
4. Have the remaining 2% escape with trinkets and return to their camps with swallowable GPS transmitters.
5. When they get home to Somalia (that country that looks like a seahorse), destroy their camp.
6. Stop paying ransoms that give them incentive to do kidnap more.
7. Warm them know that if they are a pirating community, they will get blown the eff up
7. Do not allow Nicholas Cage to star in a movie based upon this. The writing will be terrible.
8. Fix the international laws so that this is possible.
- davidjunit, on 04/11/2009, -5/+41Maybe we should put the RIAA and MPAA in charge of our boats.
- JohnGalt01, on 04/11/2009, -12/+45Just kill them. Should be simple enough to do.
- Eldorian, on 04/12/2009, -4/+34Good to see that pirates are on the rise. This must mean Global Warming is finally reducing.
- Ajajadude, on 04/12/2009, -4/+31Well, that explains why they started doing this BEFORE Obama became President.
How the ***** did this turn into partisan politics? - inactive, on 04/12/2009, -15/+40<Generic mentally retarded anti-obama neo#diggcons comment>
- mdepaul, on 04/12/2009, -3/+19I love all these internet genius's who think that although don't know ***** about the situation at hand, think they have all the answers.
Arming ships and trying to kill the pirates who already have hostages is just going to leave a lot of people dead.
A big problem is that under international law captured pirates are sent back to Somalia where they can bribe their way out of prison. If the Navies who capture pirates brought out some old-school justice (Keel-hauling) It might help. - GrammerPants, on 04/12/2009, -5/+19Only one way to stop this, NINJAS!
- sputza, on 04/12/2009, -3/+17The answer seems simple. If your ships are at risk, hire private security to man a few .50 cal machine guns that can chew these mofos up. It's time to defend the seas again.
- PeachesTheCow, on 04/12/2009, -4/+17Liberals? The pirates are liberals?
- SpectreFire, on 04/12/2009, -0/+12Every country that uses that shipping lane should be required to send at least one navy vessel to patrol it.
- reed311, on 04/12/2009, -6/+18Months ago? Wasn't that when Bush was president? I recall Bush not mentioning one word about the escalation of piracy, nor did he attempt to do anything about it. This is another problem that he dumped on Obama's lap.
- cowboy86, on 04/12/2009, -4/+14Until they just started bringing back any Somalians head.
- PeachesTheCow, on 04/12/2009, -2/+12How is that simple? It's a hostage situation.
- johndi, on 04/12/2009, -0/+8Not a viable plan, but damn funny all the same.
- inactive, on 04/12/2009, -2/+10Yeah, but at least Black Hawk Down was awesome.
- ryan83189, on 04/12/2009, -0/+8They both would just demand a hefty sum, then both would think the other is bargaining with them for their release, and high seas hijinks would ensue.
- compulsive1, on 04/12/2009, -4/+11That's right. Let Blackwater expand into pirate hunting for profit. 10000 dollars for each Somali pirate's head. This problem would be solved in a few months.
- Cockslap, on 04/12/2009, -0/+7AAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Gimmie 2 million or walk the plank!
- PeachesTheCow, on 04/12/2009, -3/+10What does this have to do with the US? Or religious fanatics? They're opportunistic pirates in a crappy part of the world who took some Italians hostage. It's obvious that something should be done, but it's not remotely parallel to anything that took place in Iran.
- cawfee, on 04/12/2009, -1/+8That's why it's not up to you. Go back to yelling at the TV and beating your wife, *****.
- JohnGalt01, on 04/11/2009, -3/+10Until they took a US flagged vessel, I agreed with that position. Now that they have, they need to be dealt with the same way that the last set of pirates that took a US flagged vessel were treated. The Marines need to go in and kill them all.
- inactive, on 04/12/2009, -4/+11Are you being sarcastic or you're just brain-dead?
- CalcProgrammer1, on 04/12/2009, -4/+10Oh....THOSE pirates...*goes back to torrenting*
- cowboy86, on 04/12/2009, -0/+6Dugg for, "high seas hijinks."lol.
- Synchro, on 04/12/2009, -2/+8Your thorough understanding of third world geo-political issues amazes me.
- Karmashock, on 04/12/2009, -3/+9The ship isn't US owned... we sold it prior to the hijack.
I say the US government come down REALLY hard on attacks on US flag vessels and citizens captured (think 18th century British Navy... hung by the neck until dead.)... while ignoring the rest until the internationals pull their head out of their asses. I'm so fed up with their mindless moralizing that taking the initiative on their behalf is counter productive. They need to be reminded on a regular basis that their methods are not effective while at the same time we need to make a point of not suffering for their mistakes. IF/when they decide to pull their heads from between their butt cheeks we can participate. Until then lets just take care of our own affairs.
The real solution here is to nullify Somalia's soverengty in those waters. If Somalia won't police it's own people then it isn't sovereign anyway. If they start policing their people in the future, they can have the territory back. But until then other countries should have jurisdiction. - dandandantheman, on 04/12/2009, -1/+7Chase after them, put holes in their boats, snipe the piratey-lookin ones
- dragonpie, on 04/12/2009, -3/+8I think in a time like this, when we question just what's right and what's wrong, we must always ask ourselves...
What would Brian Boitano do? - WorldGroove, on 04/12/2009, -4/+9These comments are crazy.
What do you want to happen? The USA should just go into a hostage situation blowing everything up?
What is that going to solve? Then all we'll have is a bunch of dead people and the pirates won't even waste time with hostages anymore. What would probably be a better(not necessarily best) idea, is to properly arm US ships so that if they see pirates approaching them, send out a warning message in their native language and english... ignoring the warning = unload all weapons on them = death. I'm sure if that happens 3 or 4 times to them, they'll be no more hijacks. - peticsu, on 04/12/2009, -2/+7Iran Contra anyone?
ignorant idiot - DerekJackson, on 04/11/2009, -2/+6The Italian and French pay best and require virtually no risk as those countries are most willing to avoid any additional confrontation. But the cost to those nations make them the most choice of captured vessels.
- deadbaby, on 04/12/2009, -3/+7It will accomplish exactly what they want -- to satisfy some redneck sitting on a stained couch inside a trailer that smells like stale cigarette smoke and three week old rotting pizza to have an America-gasm and vote Republican because he likes when the teevee talks about stuff blowing up.
- damntourists, on 04/12/2009, -2/+6you'll never get ye hands on me mp3s.
- Ymeg, on 04/12/2009, -1/+5It's the United States problem because they target the United States boats.
- Ajajadude, on 04/12/2009, -3/+7Are you people on coke? They're doing this because short of there being naval warships every few miles sitting in these pirate infested areas, it's quite difficult to stop them and it's an extremely lucrative "business." It doesn't matter who the President is, they're attacking ships from all countries, you jack ass.
- felman87, on 04/12/2009, -1/+5buried for misleading name
- deadbaby, on 04/12/2009, -1/+5YES! You're so right. Let's kill thousands, perhaps millions, of civilians to stop a few hijackings. Kudos! DITTO!
- moonmonkey, on 04/12/2009, -0/+4The SBS and Royal Marines were running anti piracy patrols out of Hong Kong in the 70's, totally eliminated all piracy in the south china sea within 3 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Boat_Service
Should be no problem to do the same thing again. - GrammerPants, on 04/12/2009, -2/+6You know it is things like this that give Americans a bad image.
- Frozo, on 04/12/2009, -1/+5fear fear fear!
- deadbaby, on 04/12/2009, -2/+6Hijacking a few boats is hardly disrupting the worlds commerce.
- piwy, on 04/12/2009, -0/+4They might've been screwed over by the "international community", but capturing ships for ransom still sound like a pirate to me.
Also, don't come here pretending all of Somalia's problems are our doing. ***** didn't have a proper government for the last 19 years. - pinchduck, on 04/12/2009, -4/+8*****. "We" have done no such thing. You can hate on Bush all you want, but it was never official US policy to dump or illegally fish anywhere. Furthermore, protection of territorial waters in no way justified piracy. Canada, Spain, and Great Britain have all had disputes over fishing rights and territorial waters over the past couple of decades, and managed to do so without resorting to piracy, intimidation, or murder. You are holding up the actions of some bad people in a failed state as if they carry the same weight and legal justification of a sovereign nation defending its borders. Such silliness causes me to end my post the way I began it: *****.
- mdepaul, on 04/12/2009, -7/+10Yeah, we kill them they kill all the hostages and start sinking ships and killing all on board instead of just hijacking them.
- DDme, on 04/12/2009, -3/+6OR we cound find out why they have to be pirates in the first place.
http://www.sfbayview.com/2009/you-are-being-lied-t ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4312553.stm - lived666, on 04/12/2009, -1/+4I'm pretty sure that commercial ships aren't allowed to be armed because of international law. If we armed our cargo ships and other vessels they would not be allowed to enter other country's waters.
- annonimality, on 04/12/2009, -2/+5I find it ironic you have a picture of Reagan as your thumbnail. The man who gave Stinger surface-to-air missiles and Chinese mortars to the Osama Bin Ladin and the Mujaheddin during their war with the Soviets in the 1980's. And the man who ran away from Palestinian terrorists after they killed 241 of our servicemen in Beirut in 1983.
And if you want to talk about a man with zero experience who is a coward, let's talk about your boy George W. Bush. - ChiaGod, on 04/12/2009, -1/+4You wouldn't download a tugboat...
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