Comments on: Maersk Repels A Second Pirate Attack

By: crosspatch

crosspatch — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:03:52 +0000

“Funny, it seems that guns work.”

Bet flame throwers would, too.

By: canary

canary — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:39:45 +0000

some crew members said they wanted ship renamed, but company refused.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....ormer_crew

By: MinnesotaRush

MinnesotaRush — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:21:05 +0000

“.. repelled the attack with gunfire and a high-decibel noise device…”

What .. no RPG’s? Mortars? Surface torpedos?

By: Georgfelis

Georgfelis — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:12:27 +0000

Glad to see these pirates are getting their traditional rights.

You have the right to intercept high-velocity ammo.
You have the right to a short rope and a long drop
You have the right to become an example to the survivors of What Not To Do

By: Chuckk

Chuckk — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:48:41 +0000

“Using guns” to fight off armed pirates is a step backward. Of course it is. A modern, civilized society gives up and pays ransom.

By: proreason

proreason — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:30:16 +0000

Wasn’t blowing the head off the boy pirate the first time a war-crime?

Was he Mirandized? Did he have a chance to engage a lawyer? Had he committed a capital crime? Do we even know for sure that he intended to commit a crime? Was he sane? Wasn’t his behaviour influenced by a difficult childhood? Did he get a bad grade in school? Was he unjustly excluded from a job?

Surely there was less evidence against that young man than against KLM.

Yet Mr. Obama ordered his execution in the cruelest possible manner without even pretending to follow the rule of law.

By: BannedbytheTaliban

BannedbytheTaliban — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:17:07 +0000

I am reminded of one Maya Angelous’ ‘pearls’ of wisdom:

Effective action is always unjust.