Piratical Solutions
By Charlie Daniels
December 7, 2009
One of the silliest things to happen in the last several decades, with the exception of Obama’s fiscal policy, is commercial shipping lanes allowing a handful of rag tag pirates in a glorified row boat to capture ships off the coast of Africa.
This is asinine, dangerous, costly and totally unnecessary.
One trip to Barrett Arms in Murfreesboro, Tennessee could put a stop to this idiocy. Simply purchase two of Ronnie Barrett’s 50 caliber rifles and hire two men who know how to use them. Put one on the port side and one on the starboard, draw a bead on any pirate boat when it’s about a mile away, pull the trigger a couple of times, put a couple of holes in the bottom of the boat and send the whole kit and caboodle to Davy Jones locker.
End of threat.
Back in the old days, practically all merchant ships were armed with canon and crews who knew how to fight and any pirate who tried to board one of them had to do so at considerable danger to life and limb.
Nowadays the merchant ships don’t even fight back and the problem is only going to get worse as time goes along. So far they have extorted millions of dollars by hijacking sea vessels. It is a self-proliferating enterprise and it costs a lot of money.
It is ridiculous to keep giving in to this bunch of nitwits when just two well armed sharpshooters could deplete their ranks in just a couple of encounters.
Now my understanding is that some of the countries where the ships pick up their loads won’t allow firearms on board the merchant ships that frequent their harbors.
Well how about this…?
How about some private security firms, like Blackwater, buying some small ships and meeting the merchant ships at the beginning of international waters where they could put a couple of guys on the ship to protect it until it was out of danger?
I know it would be fairly expensive but how expensive is the loss of a ship full of crude oil, and the loss of a human life can’t be measured in money.
This is a situation that will require violence to solve. It can’t be handled with kid gloves and it is not going to go away by letting them get away with it.
When the Maersk Alabama was captured and her captain was being held hostage we finally sent the Navy Seals in and rescued them, but even then the rescue was soft-pedaled. Those Seals could have taken out everybody in that boat where they were holding the captain, but they weren’t allowed to, so several of these vermin lived to fight again.
The longer this situation is allowed to fester the worse it’s going to get and the more innocent people will get killed or hurt.
The only thing that will stop this is a harsh response to every act of piracy, meeting force with superior force, blowing these scumbags out of the water every time they come close to a merchant ship.
But we probably won’t do that. It would not be politically correct and besides, Eric Holder would probably sue. You know terrorists and pirates have rights too.
Whatever happened to “don’t tread on me?”
What do you think?
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