See: 4 Americans on hijacked yacht dead off Somalia
Piracy is not a difficult problem to solve.
You kill the pirates. You hunt them down and you kill them.
If you capture some of them alive, you give them a short trial at sea, and you then kill them right there. There deaths should be quick and ignoble.
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Showing posts with label Pirates. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Laura Dekker's Equatorial Circumnavigation
She is in Portugal now. The start date will be announced shortly.
See: Dutch teen arrives in Portugal ahead of solo sailing bid
This is not the same race as Jessica Watson's. It is similar, but it is not the same.
Jessica Watson sailed The Three Capes route. Laura Dekker is sailing the equatorial route. Another difference is that Jessica Watson sailed non-stop and Laura Dekker will make port in several places.
I am less comfortable with Laura Dekker's adventure then I was with Jessica Watson's.
Laura Dekker is very young. Many people will object on that alone. While I find her age to be a little worrisome, I am more concerned about the route that she will travel. Jessica Watson traveled south and sailed around the three Capes, Cape Agulhas, Cape Leeuwin and Cape Horn).
Where Watson had to brave stormy seas, Dekker will have to brave filthy pirates. I would prefer storms over pirates. Where as the sea and the storms are indifferent and lack malice, pirates are the scum of the planet. Pirates are malice.
Training can solve most problems associated with age, storms and seas. Pirates are different. With Pirates, age becomes a problem.
Laura Dekker will be at sea for over a year. She will travel around the equator and pass through some of the most pirate infested waters of the world. She will avoid the physical dangers of the three capes. Hopefully she will be able to avoid the Pirates as well.
May she find easy sailing fair winds on her way.
See: Dutch teen arrives in Portugal ahead of solo sailing bid
Dekker wants to break the record for the youngest world solo sail set in May by Australian teenager Jessica Watson. Watson completed a non-stop, unassisted round-the-world trip a few days before her 17th birthday.
Dekker turns 17 on September 20, 2012, allowing her a little over two years to complete the trip, during which she intends to stop at several ports along the way.
Dekker has said her route from Portugal will take her across the Atlantic Ocean and into the Pacific via the Panama Canal. She plans to stop at the Galapagos islands before heading to Australia, Thailand and through the pirate-infested Gulf of Aden back to Europe.
This is not the same race as Jessica Watson's. It is similar, but it is not the same.
Jessica Watson sailed The Three Capes route. Laura Dekker is sailing the equatorial route. Another difference is that Jessica Watson sailed non-stop and Laura Dekker will make port in several places.
I am less comfortable with Laura Dekker's adventure then I was with Jessica Watson's.
Laura Dekker is very young. Many people will object on that alone. While I find her age to be a little worrisome, I am more concerned about the route that she will travel. Jessica Watson traveled south and sailed around the three Capes, Cape Agulhas, Cape Leeuwin and Cape Horn).
Where Watson had to brave stormy seas, Dekker will have to brave filthy pirates. I would prefer storms over pirates. Where as the sea and the storms are indifferent and lack malice, pirates are the scum of the planet. Pirates are malice.
Training can solve most problems associated with age, storms and seas. Pirates are different. With Pirates, age becomes a problem.
Laura Dekker will be at sea for over a year. She will travel around the equator and pass through some of the most pirate infested waters of the world. She will avoid the physical dangers of the three capes. Hopefully she will be able to avoid the Pirates as well.
May she find easy sailing fair winds on her way.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Piracy On Falcon Lake - And Soon Off Of Our Gulf and Pacific Coasts
Pirates and American Victims (Someplace much closer than South East Asia or East Africa.)
See: Pirates threaten boats on US-Mexico border lake
How long before this stuff hits our Pacific and Gulf Coast waters?
What would stop them?
Why should they expect any kind of action other than the inaction that they have already come to expect from us at our borders?
Mexico is in bad shape.
It's leaders snivel about US gun laws while Mexican Narco-Cartels have effectively taken control of large swaths of their county. They have let the drug-lords run free for so long that they now threaten to topple the Mexican government.
It is Columbia all over again. And it is just next door.
Illegal immigrants continue to flow across our porous border. Our cowardly government talks about sending troops to the border and then loudly proclaims that the troops are not going to do anything about the human waves of illegals crossing in from Mexico.
What a fucking farce.
Now we have a pirate problem to add to this mess.
Just a few fishing boats for now. But they will see that NOTHING will be done about it. It will look to the criminal element south of the border like a “Money for Nothing” scheme. They will say to themselves “The gringos won't do anything. They haven't the cajones.” Have they seen anything from us that would make them think differently?
Piracy on our near oceans will come of this if our nation continues to play weak.
The borders must be made secure. (Build the fucking wall already!)
The pirates must be killed.
Pirates must be hunted down, captured and killed. The killing of the pirates part is important. For pirates, this is something that must be done, especially on the salt waters, whether here off our southern coasts or across the world off of East Africa or South East Asia.
You have to kill pirates.
You have to protect your nation's borders.
Nations that don't do these things risk becoming someone else's country.
See: Pirates threaten boats on US-Mexico border lake
ZAPATA, Texas (AP) - The waters of Falcon Lake normally beckon boaters with waterskiing and world-record bass fishing. But this holiday weekend, fishermen on the waters that straddle the U.S.-Mexico border are on the lookout for something more sinister: pirates.
Twice in recent weeks, fishermen have been robbed at gunpoint by marauders that the local sheriff says are "spillover" from fighting between rival Mexican drug gangs.
Boaters are concerned about their safety, and the president of the local Chamber of Commerce is trying to assure people that everything's fine on the U.S. side of the lake.
At the fishing camp his family has owned for 50 years, Jack Cox now sleeps with a loaded shotgun at his feet and a handgun within reach.
How long before this stuff hits our Pacific and Gulf Coast waters?
What would stop them?
Why should they expect any kind of action other than the inaction that they have already come to expect from us at our borders?
Mexico is in bad shape.
It's leaders snivel about US gun laws while Mexican Narco-Cartels have effectively taken control of large swaths of their county. They have let the drug-lords run free for so long that they now threaten to topple the Mexican government.
It is Columbia all over again. And it is just next door.
Illegal immigrants continue to flow across our porous border. Our cowardly government talks about sending troops to the border and then loudly proclaims that the troops are not going to do anything about the human waves of illegals crossing in from Mexico.
What a fucking farce.
Now we have a pirate problem to add to this mess.
Just a few fishing boats for now. But they will see that NOTHING will be done about it. It will look to the criminal element south of the border like a “Money for Nothing” scheme. They will say to themselves “The gringos won't do anything. They haven't the cajones.” Have they seen anything from us that would make them think differently?
Piracy on our near oceans will come of this if our nation continues to play weak.
The borders must be made secure. (Build the fucking wall already!)
The pirates must be killed.
Pirates must be hunted down, captured and killed. The killing of the pirates part is important. For pirates, this is something that must be done, especially on the salt waters, whether here off our southern coasts or across the world off of East Africa or South East Asia.
You have to kill pirates.
You have to protect your nation's borders.
Nations that don't do these things risk becoming someone else's country.
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