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Socialist Party presidential candidate Norman Thomas


Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Sail unarmed into pirate waters.....get seized by pirates

You've probably heard about the Maersk, Alabama, a huge container ship that was hijacked by a rag-tag band of Somali pirates yesterday. The crew of about 20 Americans is being held hostage. I want to know how a skiff the size of a row boat can attack and disable a crew of 20 on a cargo ship of this size?

Here's the ship, or one exactly like it, that was hijacked. And below is a boat filled with "pirates" like the one used to capture the container ship.

You're telling me that a single dude with a sniper rifle couldn't kill every one of these guys before they even approached the ship, much less climbed aboard? He wouldn't even have to kill them, just shoot the outboard motor and disable the boat.

Why don't these ships that sail anywhere near Somalia have at least one guy whose job it is to empty magazines of bullets into any approaching boats? This is sort of like a doughnut truck driving down Rosie O'Donnell's street and expecting not to get hijacked. But maybe I'm missing something.

2 comments:

MAS1916 said...

It appears now that the crew threw a couple of these terrorists overboard. Now look for Obama's Dept of Justice to prosecute the crew for violations of human rights and torture. He has to keep the Europeans happy with America.

Ed said...

That would be funnier if it weren't so likely to happen. I'm sure Eric Holder is on ball lining up public defenders for these guys so they can take advantage of all our Constitutional rights as criminals.