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southern_belle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-24-08 10:12 AM Original message |
Pirates take four European tourists hostage |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-24-08 10:16 AM Response to Original message |
1. Civilized nations need to stop pussy-footing around with pirates |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-24-08 02:12 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. "Civilized nations need to stop pussy-footing around with pirates" that a Thomas Jefferson Quote?? |
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riverdeep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-24-08 09:34 PM Response to Reply #1 |
13. They could do what China did, capture and execute them. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 09:05 AM Response to Reply #13 |
19. The best our Navy could do was fire warning shots |
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peace13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-24-08 10:16 AM Response to Original message |
2. Bad place to run our of fuel. |
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cobalt1999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-24-08 10:24 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Bad place to be a touist. |
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MidwestTransplant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-24-08 11:20 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Bad place to float by even if you don't run aground. |
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merwin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-24-08 10:52 AM Response to Original message |
4. Damn. Pirates have really gotten much worse from the Commodore 64 days. |
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cbayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-24-08 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
6. That's apparently the worst part of a circumnaviation. |
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Carnea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-24-08 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
8. Well at least it is good news on the Global Warming Front. |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-24-08 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
9. Note to self: |
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riverdeep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-24-08 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
10. Piracy is the well-kept secret of the shipping industry. |
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cobalt1999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-24-08 03:44 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Pirates have always been ruthless |
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Mike Daniels (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-24-08 03:55 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Yep, Hollywood glamorized the pirate to where people think of them as "rebels" |
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One_Life_To_Give (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 10:10 AM Response to Reply #12 |
20. Funny most Piracy is in Asia |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-24-08 10:32 PM Response to Original message |
14. it could be worse- instead of somalia, it could have happened at disneyland |
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skoalyman (751 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 12:29 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. shoot I think Id rather turn an old ww2 warship into a yacht |
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entanglement (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 01:39 AM Response to Original message |
16. A Somaliland elder is attempting to negotiate with the pirates to release the tourists |
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KillCapitalism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 02:36 AM Response to Original message |
17. If our Navy should really be anywhere right now |
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and-justice-for-all (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 05:07 AM Response to Original message |
18. Piracy is terrorism...nt |
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