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The Somalia pirates stuff strongly supports my theory that we are living through "Atlas Shrugged."

If one of them is named Ragnar Danneskjold-that will be a good thing.

My hat's off to the Indian Navy, which sunk one of the pirate "mother ships" the other day.

I'm wondering why the company that owns that oil tanker doesn't hire Blackwater or some similar outfit to go into that port where the tanker is and just clean the place out. I doubt the pirates could stand up for very long to a well trained commando outfit, and after one or two of the ships get rescued, they would probably lose their stomach for this sort of activity fairly quickly.

silverscreenselect wrote:I'm wondering why the company that owns that oil tanker doesn't hire Blackwater or some similar outfit to go into that port where the tanker is and just clean the place out. I doubt the pirates could stand up for very long to a well trained commando outfit, and after one or two of the ships get rescued, they would probably lose their stomach for this sort of activity fairly quickly.

I'm wondering why, since there is a history of piracy in the area, why the tanker company doesn't employ security personnel on the ships when they are at sea. Each has $100 million in cargo, plus the ship itself is probably worth $50 million. So you have $150 million floating unprotected in open pirate infested waters. JC Penny employes better security at each store than they have on those ships.

Too bad they didn't hijack an LNG ship instead. It would be messy to scuttle a ship with 100,000 barrels of oil, but LNG? Ha! Wait until the pirate get it docked in their home port and send two tomahawks to rupture the tanks at the same time. Bye-bye ship, bye-bye pirates, bye-bye priate town, bye-bye piracy. For the next 100 years anyway.

silverscreenselect wrote:I'm wondering why the company that owns that oil tanker doesn't hire Blackwater or some similar outfit to go into that port where the tanker is and just clean the place out. I doubt the pirates could stand up for very long to a well trained commando outfit, and after one or two of the ships get rescued, they would probably lose their stomach for this sort of activity fairly quickly.

I actually heard a talk about piracy by some navy spokesman, talking about jurisdiction and who would try the pirates. So I think the problem is lawyers and people thinking like lawyers. These are Pirates, there is no juris out there. Sink'em. That humming sound is Stephen Decatur spinning in his grave.

I suspect that the recent action (or more appropriately lack of action by the Canadian Supreme Court) about the right of people "functionally disabled by obesity" to get two seats for the price of one is as good or better an indication of the coming society described in "Atlas Shrugged".