--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote: > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of martyboi > Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 1:49 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Pirate question > > At some point, I imagine the amount of weaponry on board a vessel changes > the definition of the ship from cargo ship to fighting vessel or military > vessel. This might also affect the regulations related to entering foreign > ports. Do you want a heavily armed ship, flying a foreign flag docking at a > US port without taking certain precautions? > The Coast Guard could divest them of their weapons before letting them into > port. It's nuts that these Somalis in little speed boats are capturing so > many cargo ships. It would be so easy to blow them out of the water. People > a lot better informed than I must certainly have given the matter a lot of > thought, so I figured I was missing something, which is why I started the > thread.
Typical american fools; shoot first and ask questions later. The reason why noone has been hurt in this pirate-business is because the staff aboard the ships are unarmed. If they were it would have been a bloody mess by now. The reason it is not is because so far, at least until yesterday, americans have not been involved. Let's just hope that the americans, with their cowboy-dna's, stays far away from these problems.
