are at it again... not that blowing a few of their heads off ever slowed them down or anything.
NAIROBI, Kenya – Somali pirates captured a Greek-flagged supertanker carrying an estimated $150 million worth of oil to the Gulf of Mexico, the second successful attack against an oil tanker by sea bandits in two days, officials said.
Great news, just the excuse to raise gas at the pump some more.
Hey asshat ship owners, it might be a good idea if you'd hire an escort gunship or six to ensure that $150 large worth of cargo makes it to its intended destination on time. Might be cheaper than the ransom you're going to wind up eventually paying to get your shit back.
Not really laughable, more like fukking sad, because these fukking savages get over because we, the white civilized folk of the world chose not to stomp them out like the roaches they are. This same attitude is why the middle east is as fukked as it is. Eventually these fukkers are going to breed their way into the driver's seat. And nobody will be laughing then.
As I've said a number of times here, high seas piracy is so fukking perventable, it's not funny. We simply establish commercial sea lanes. You wander into one, we blow you the fukk up. Where these lanes approach land as in straits or near ports, we have aggressive patrolling. On top of this, you 4 ma dueces (fore and aft, port and starboard) and train the crews to use them.
Unfortunately all these measures require politicians with stones to carry them out.
mvscal wrote:The only precious metals in a SHTF scenario are lead and brass.
""On a lonely planet spinning its way toward damnation amid the fear and despair of a broken human race, who is left to fight for all that is good and pure and gets you smashed for under a fiver? Yes, it's the surprising adventures of me, Sir Digby Chicken-Caesar!"
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