Piracy
Shippers hiring contractors and arming up against pirates. Took long enough.
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February 26th, 2011 at 1:13 pm
I seem to recall a piece, at another blog, from a couple of years back. Something about Privateers, or some such. It would seem to me that any privatly owned company could, and should, protect it’s own interests.
February 26th, 2011 at 3:37 pm
Well, now I know why my college age son wants his passport before this summer starts, and why he wanted to know about letters of marque.
There is a multimillion dollar business idea floating around in his brain, I suspect.
February 26th, 2011 at 5:03 pm
From what I understand, the big problem has been the idiotic laws in a lot of countries about having arms of any kind on a ship; looks like they’re working ways around that.
You’ll note that the ‘no prisoners’ pretty much covers what the Navy used to do with pirates.
February 27th, 2011 at 12:02 am
Some companies have been doing this quietly for a while now.
The Maersk Alabama was attacked a second time, a couple of months after the incident we all remember. *That* time, the pirates were repelled by gunfire.
February 27th, 2011 at 10:25 am
All countries/ports should be told by the shipping companies that ‘we are coming in heavy. Don’t like it, we blacklist your port’.
This piracy issue can be stamped out if people would grow spines.
February 27th, 2011 at 6:59 pm
WTF is so hard to understand about “you fire at us, we’re firing back”, never mind actually doing it? Laws in opposition to this should be subject to review. Pirates wouldn’t, um, pirate, if it didn’t pay.
February 27th, 2011 at 8:54 pm
Those who impose anti-gun laws, are aiding and abetting pirates, just as is done with criminals on land.