On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:56:21 -0500, the infamous F. George McDuffee
scrawled the following:

On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:09:10 -0700, "Bill Noble"
wrote:

A high power laser to blind the idiot steering the pirate's boat
would be a great idea.

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there is the geneva conventions - what you suggest (blinding by laser) is
specifically covered and prohibited
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There is some debate on this point.

As the pirates are not the regular constituted forces of a legal
government that is signatory to the Geneva convention, it appears
they are not covered, i.e. no name, rank, serial number
protection, etc. It appears that soft point bullets, laser, gas
etc. would be legal.

Lovely!


There can't be more than a few hundred of these individuals and
the combined navies of the US, UK, France, German, Japan, China,
and Russia can't/won't get control of the situation??????? Is
this creating the pretext for another run at the occupation of
Somalia?

Sure. Iraq and Afghanistan are no fun any more. Let's go play in
Somalia again and lose more boys there, too! sigh


The United States is responsible for much of this as they have
subverted/overthrown at least 2 governments that appeared to be
gaining control of the political situation.

In Somalia?


As there is currently no nation of Somalia, a close blockade of
the pirates' ports/bases of operation on the [geographic
expression] Somalia coast with searching of the so-called fishing
boats as they enter and leave port should be adequate. The
pirates at sea will quickly starve or run out of fuel, and the
pirates ashore are not a problem, except to their neighbors.

g


If nothing else I suggest sending in the Waco BATF unit to deal
with the problem.

Bwahahahahaha! Can we just give Somalia the entire division?


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