How Should We Deal With "Pirates"? (page 6)

There should be no negotiation nor ransoms. Upon taking of a ship, the pirates should be given 24 hours to surrender the hostages and themselves. If they don't surrender, special forces should be sent in to summarily execute the pirates without regard to the safety of any hostages. It would not take many instances of this for the pirate activity to stop.

minimus

So just forget about the hostages??

I hope no one in your family is ever taken hostage.

John Doe

So just forget about the hostages??

I hope no one in your family is ever taken hostage.

Yes. If you care about not making hostages in the future. If you take away the market for hostages, there won't be any. Only problem is that no one has the balls to make the needed call. In my view, taking a hostage should be signing your own death sentence.

minimus

It's not a matter of balls. It's brains.

John Doe

It's not a matter of balls. It's brains.

Brains should tell you that providing a market for hostages puts everyone in danger.

minimus

There will always be a "market for hostages".

John Doe

There will always be a "market for hostages".

Only if people provide one. If aggressive action were taken against pirates, there would not be one. That's a simple and hard to dispute fact.

minimus

Sorry, john Doe but in a real world, that simply isn't the case. It's simplistic and not a "fact".

Since the President isn't commenting on this crisis, I suggest you give him your pearls of ewisdom to help the situation out.

quietlyleaving

one estimate says that Somalian piracy earned $150 million in 2008. They are also very organized, have heavy duty weaponry, GPS, telecommunications etc and often board ships at night. There don't seem to be any simple solutions. The country is poverty stricken - death happens all the time. I don't think the threat of execution will deter piracy and it is very likely that that avenue has been tested.

How Should We Deal With "Pirates"?

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