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Brooklyns_Finest (747 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:09 PM Original message |
This is NOT over (Pirate Saga) |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
1. Its been a problem for years and not likely to change - but one hostage is on his way home |
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Uzybone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
2. of course its not over |
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walldude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
3. It's not just about money |
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amyrose2712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:16 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. +++++ |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:18 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. They have no choice but to hold people at the end of a machine gun? |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:18 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Bad guys deserve the loss due to risk they chose to unnertake... |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:18 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. Don't go blowing them up into some kind folk heroes. Terrorists are terrorists |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:20 PM Response to Reply #3 |
11. That's such fucking bullshit. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:20 PM Response to Reply #3 |
12. That article has been ripped to shit already, here |
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Wickerman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:26 PM Response to Reply #3 |
15. Uh, Right. Show me the pirates are doing anything to feed and clothe the poor |
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varkam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:26 PM Response to Reply #3 |
16. I think there's probably a happy medium... |
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walldude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:50 PM Response to Reply #16 |
25. NO there's not. Look around you. |
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varkam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:59 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Dude - I was agreeing with you. |
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SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 06:21 PM Response to Reply #25 |
33. . |
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Fire1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 03:14 PM Response to Reply #3 |
29. Thanks walldude for the link. It's just as I expected. |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 07:05 PM Response to Reply #3 |
37. That is a very important story. I didn't even know this was happening. |
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we can do it (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-13-09 10:13 AM Response to Reply #3 |
39. Fuck the Pirates and Their Supporters |
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Mike Daniels (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-13-09 10:42 AM Response to Reply #3 |
40. This article is so full of shit re: Golden Age era piracy..... |
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CJCRANE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:15 PM Response to Original message |
4. Need to follow the money too. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:15 PM Response to Original message |
5. Nope--those idiots pushed the wrong button. We've been aware of this for awhile, and |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:20 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. Ditto......Yup It was Time....Them poor Pubs...they actually wanted this to end Badly.. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:34 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. I hate to say that about 'mah fellow Americans' but I do think you are correct. |
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Brooklyns_Finest (747 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:23 PM Response to Reply #5 |
13. First the French |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:45 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. Even the INDIAN Navy has sent a vessel to the region in the last month or so. |
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stillcool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
14. No doubt.. |
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bkkyosemite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:32 PM Response to Original message |
17. Every ship should be armed and if a pirate ship approaches a warning shot and if that doesn't work |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:44 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. I am going to guess that you have never been more then 10 miles off shore. |
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bkkyosemite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:45 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Think what you want. If a ship is coming towards you at high speed with a weapon in their hand shoot |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:50 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. I would guess this would apply in the Straights of Mallaca too? |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 06:59 PM Response to Reply #24 |
36. You are being disingenuous.. |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-13-09 10:10 AM Response to Reply #36 |
38. How do you tell? Are all hijackings following a script? |
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bkkyosemite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:46 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. btw you guess wrong. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:57 PM Response to Reply #17 |
26. Actually, the reason they've gotten away with this is because ransoms have been paid in the past. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
19. GWB dramatically cut the size of our navy, so our profile in the area is low. nt |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
28. That's cool |
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paulsby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 05:40 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. that;s how it should be |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 06:15 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. That doesn't address the "it's not over" question |
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paulsby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 06:16 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. i agree |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 06:23 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. It was a great ending |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 06:42 PM Response to Original message |
35. The ships need to be adequately armed. |
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