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carlyhippy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:14 PM Original message |
What is this world coming to... cargo ship outruns pirates off Tanzania coast |
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Trajan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
1. Piracy is a very old profession .... |
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T Wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:08 PM Response to Original message |
2. The private owners of the corporate-owned ships should take care of their own security. |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:14 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. What's the legality of this? |
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carlyhippy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:21 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. I wondered the same thing....and they say the US and Britain can't stop them? |
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Ex Lurker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 01:59 AM Response to Reply #2 |
22. there's apparently some international compact preventing the arming of |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
3. I think it's about time... |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 05:16 PM Response to Original message |
6. Origins of the Somali pirates: Western chemical dumping on the shore? |
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carlyhippy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 05:29 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. again another mess this world is in |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 07:18 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. When does CNN-CIA mention the other side of the story? |
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DonEBrook (506 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 07:21 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Makes sense. "Somebody dumped crap on our beach so let's become pirates." |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 07:36 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. It's not about right or wrong. |
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DonEBrook (506 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 08:14 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. There is absolutely no doubt that criminals can invent any number of rationalizations. |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 11:50 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. The relevant question for policy making isn't whether... |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 07:20 PM Response to Original message |
9. Damned slacker slowpoke pirates! |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 07:38 PM Response to Original message |
12. Fifty years ago when Maureen O'Hara and Errol Flynn were making derring do |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 07:41 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. The principle of piracy has never gone away. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 07:45 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. That goes without a doubt. I was just talking about |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 07:55 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Yes, it's very interesting stuff, I agree... |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 08:30 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Wow, that's interesting. I was in the past tempted |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 12:01 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Grace O'Malley... |
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Gold Metal Flake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 12:07 AM Response to Original message |
20. "You still owe me a 10 second cargo ship" |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 12:12 AM Response to Original message |
21. We need to go back to Q ships, treaties be damned. |
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