There's only one way to solve the pirate problem

[Renew Deal]

The old way

[closeupready]

1. Colonize Somalia?

:wtf: Unrecced.

[damntexdem]

2. Diplomacy?

Worked for John Adams.

[TheWraith]

12. Actually, Adams paid the ransoms.

In the years leading up to the first Barbary Coast war, up to 25% of the federal budget was dedicated to paying ransom to the Barbary privateers.

[atreides1]

3. Great idea

But where are you going to find rifled muskets...masted sailing ships...and those tight pants the officers used to wear?:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Renew Deal]

5. Chinatown?

:D

[Kennah]

7. You want me to do WHAT off the poop deck?

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. A marine detachment of Tea Partiers?

They seem to like tricorn hats and tight pants, anyway ...

Just tell 'em they're invading Kenya, they'll jump at the chance.

[Kennah]

27. With R. Lee Ermey in command?

[Marblehead]

4. stop dumping toxic waste

where they fish might help
:shrug:

[Renew Deal]

6. BS

[Kennah]

8. +1, and resume UN efforts to establish a functioning government

[EOTE]

21. Very true.

You don't see a whole lot of pirates coming from countries with functional governments. Perhaps that's why so many freepers want to be pirates when they grow up.

[Kennah]

26. Pirates from functioning governments used to called privateers - Today they are known as Koch Whores

[Vincardog]

9. BINGO

[mike_c]

10. yep....

+1

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. But..but..sending in the cannon-fodder is cheaper!!

[mike_c]

16. and it puts the circus...

...in bread and circuses....

[SoCalDem]

15. Too late for that now..

The actual "not dumping" is always a good idea for the oceans' sake, but once these young guys have tasted "success" at getting big bucks for taking ships for ransom, they are unlikely to give it up to go fishing.. You can buy a LOT of food with the money they are getting.

It's kind of like trying to convince a 15 yr old who's used to thousands a week selling drugs, to stop doing that & go get a job at a mini mart for $6 a hr..

Young men take risks, many pay with their lives, but many are willing to take the risk for the big score.. Once they taste it, it's addictive and even fun.. Most would not give it up..

[FLPanhandle]

35. Not at all.

They make more money as pirates. When the cost/risk of being a pirate is higher than the benefits, then, and only then, will it end.

Any action needs to reduce the benefits and/or increase the risk/cost.

[SoCalDem]

13. seek them out and sink their boats..

let Poseidon deal with them

[Poll_Blind]

17. Sweet! Just like we solved the Indian problem!

:eyes:

PB

[Ignis]

31. ...And without the additional expense of blankets!

[AsahinaKimi]

18. Ayarrrrrrrrrrr!

Ship them bottles of rot gut Rum with lots of LSD in it..they may all start shooting each other.
:sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm:

[Arkana]

19. Get Johnny Depp into makeup and give him some letters of marque.

That's the only way, dammit.

[kimmerspixelated]

29. Did someone say Johnny Depp???

:woohoo: :woohoo: :loveya: :loveya:

[eShirl]

20. the Jack of All Trades way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VNsjjYRgjc

There ain't no French or Pirate Scum who don't know Jack!

From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli,
Sailing round the bloody world to defend democracy
And if you need a fighting man you trust to watch your back
(Just ask the bloke right next to you) it's Jack!

[timo]

22. like the rest of our foreign policy

put them on the dole.

[Rowdyboy]

23. Julius Caesar once solved a problem with pirates by crucifying them...A tad outdated but

an effective solution in its day. According to some stories he even had them build their own crosses.

Ah for the good old days....

[Renew Deal]

25. lol

:rofl:

[Taverner]

24. Wha? Call in the French Foreign Legion?

Although perhaps some of these Pirates can JOIN the FFL. Good way to learn French.

[steve2470]

28. Violence is always the best solution !

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[Arkana]

30. Something's wrong! Violence isn't working and that's all we're good at!

[FLPanhandle]

32. When the risk of being a pirate outweighs the benefit, then it'll end.

Increasing the risk will come either through patrols or an effective government there going after them.

All this B.S. about fishing or dumping of waste has nothing to do with it.

[Old Troop]

33. Carry muzzle-loading muskets?

[Maine_Nurse]

34. We could tell them that North Korean warships carry gold on board.

[jmowreader]

36. There are actually two ways; both involve the navies of the world

The first way is to scrounge up all the obsolete antiship missiles they can find--ones that are too slow or have too small a warhead to use against military ships--and use them to sink all the pirates they can find.

The more acceptable way--it's hard to tell the difference between a regular ship and a pirate ship if the pirate ship hasn't done any piracy--is to use the navy to keep non-pirate ships out of pirate-infested waters.

[customerserviceguy]

37. Wonder what T. Jefferson would have done

with the weaponry we have available today?

[kenny blankenship]

38. Exploding parrots? Eyepatches doped with radioactive isotopes?

Chinese made rum?

[Cleita]

39. I thought our navies, most notably us and the Brits

were supposed to keep the oceans free of pirates.