Hillary Clinton, the person who easily might have been our Commander-in-Chief, said recently that the piracy problem requires 21th Century solutions. WRONG!
The piracy problem requires 18th century solutions. Thomas Jefferson, who hated war and preferred diplomacy had the right idea. Jefferson sent his navy and destroyed them.
Liberals like to say that piracy is a criminal offence and is more a law enforcement issue than a terrorist matter. This is the sort of fuzzy logic that always results in a bad outcome.
Here is my simple and cheap solution to 21th Century piracy:
1. Equip all merchant ships who travel in dangerous waters with 4 to 6 heavy machine guns. Train the crew on their use.
2. Issue a world-wide edict that henceforth, any unidentified watercraft that comes with 200 yards of a merchant ship will receive warning shots and if they don’t turn around immediately, they will be blasted out of the water. No apology, no negotiations, no seeking approval from the United Nations. Those who engage in piracy on the high seas have forfeited any "rights" and are to be considered rogue humanoids and enemies of humanity.
3. Identify and destroy all bases giving safe harbor to pirates. We pretty much know where they are.
The "piracy problem" will end in short order.
All the talk about maritime treaties or laws forbidding the use of weapons on merchant ships for self-defense is hogwash. Any civilian casualties will be considered unfortunate victims of terrorism. We cannot negotiate with terrorists. If the suggested measures are taken, there will be very few, if any, further civilian casualties to worry about.
Q.E.D.
2 comments:
When my merchant mariner cousin gets captured by killers for ransom, there are no laws that will protect the killers from me. Animals. Nature has its way to handle cases like this. Natural law.
I like the machine gun stuff.
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