[hiredhand]

I think it's possible to deter them. They can't be completely stopped. Not in this age. Unfortunately, piracy PAYS...big time. If Commanding Officers on naval vessels which catch them started summarily executing them and documenting it and publicizing it well, that would be a good start. But with our current leadership it's a lot like spitting in one hand and wishing in the other. Guess which one is going to fill first? :-)

[Gilbo_3]

well if we’re ‘spittin’ in a hand, THAT could take awhile...in the meantime, bambam & co. have already loaded the garden plot with wheelbarrows full of the ‘other’...8^}

[samtheman]

I still like the idea of Extreme Reality Cruises. I know it’s an idle daydream, but no more so, at this point in our history, than dreaming of a US President willing to take a stand against US enemies.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”I think it's possible to deter them<./i?”

I thought it was interesting when the PRChinese navy ships started patrolling those waters looking for pirates. They are a world player now and consider their economic interests first. They know how to do business unlike SOME countries, ironic given PRC past.

[NFHale]

“...summarily executing them and documenting it and publicizing it...”

Interesting...hanging them on deck, videotaped, with a sign strapped to their chest “PIRATE”, then literally throwing them overboard to the waiting Tigers, Makos, and Hammerheads swimming below (after suitably chumming the water).

Then posting it on Youtube...sorta like those animals did to Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl.

But do all this AFTER a summary trial so it’s “fair and balanced” for the media assjackets...

I like it!!

And for the record brother Hiredhand, I WOULD want to see you run for President, with good buddy Squantos as VP!!!!!!! I’ll be yer damned Campaign Manager (as long as I get the Secretary of Defense job after the win), and ol’ Gilbo can be our Media Consultant (and then UN Ambassador)!!!!

Heheheh...One HELL of a campaign, I’d say!!!