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Buy them out? - 10/21/2010 2:54:45 PM   
DarkSteven


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Status: offline 		I was thinking of the Somalian pirates today - poor young men, not terribly bright, with well-armed ships. And it dawned on me that those ships are worth a LOT. So much that it should make financial sense to buy off the pirates for equal shares of what their ship would bring on the open market.

A few pirate crews turned, and their vessels sold, should make the financial backers quit.

What's your take on that idea?

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RE: Buy them out? - 10/21/2010 2:59:54 PM   
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RE: Buy them out? - 10/21/2010 4:30:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		It sounds good in practice Steven, the problem is there is an unlimited supply of poor in the world willing to carry on the trade.

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RE: Buy them out? - 10/21/2010 4:46:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		Remember the "cash for clunkers"program.....and how wildly effective it was some might ,and I believe did, say too effective...imagine that sort of brisk business with enterprising well armed men.Such a policy just might encourage more young somalis to turn to such tactics.....it's a win win situation,suceed at your new endeavor ...and then get paid to "retire" from the business.

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RE: Buy them out? - 10/21/2010 4:47:37 PM   
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RE: Buy them out? - 10/21/2010 4:50:34 PM   
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It sounds good in practice Steven, the problem is there is an unlimited supply of poor in the world willing to carry on the trade.


I'm not so much concerned with the priates themselves as the backers who put up the money to outfit the ship.  Once they lose ships, you'll see piracy drop off.  There's an unlimited supply of inexpensive men willing to be pirates, but the money to buy and outfit ships is limited.


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RE: Buy them out? - 10/21/2010 5:44:31 PM   
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Offer them GOLD!

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RE: Buy them out? - 10/21/2010 5:54:09 PM   
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RE: Buy them out? - 10/22/2010 3:54:26 AM   
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I'm not so much concerned with the priates themselves as the backers who put up the money to outfit the ship.  Once they lose ships, you'll see piracy drop off.  There's an unlimited supply of inexpensive men willing to be pirates, but the money to buy and outfit ships is limited.



I'm a little confused.  You keep calling them ships.

My understanding was that the pirate activity was taking place from small, inexpensive boats.


Pirates based in lawless regions of Somalia have become increasingly brazen in their attacks on merchant ships in the Indian Ocean.

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RE: Buy them out? - 10/22/2010 9:13:33 AM   
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Status: offline 		RML has it right. They don't have 'pirate ships' they just sneak up in small boats and climb aboard with an AK. Or, don't bother sneaking...and 'let us on board or I'll shoot this RPG at you'. Buying out the local boss of each port might make sense....but as you're trying to take somalia by military force right now already, not much point. Just try to win the war.

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RE: Buy them out? - 10/22/2010 9:17:36 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm with rml on this as well. There are very few ships involved in the piracy, which is why most of the attacks take place in coastal waters.

Dead right that the backers rather than the pirates are the problem, though. Razing a few of the armed ports to the ground might be more helpful than anything seaborne: lets see them refit to attack the next cruiser or cargo ship when their base is a smoking hole in the ground...

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RE: Buy them out? - 10/22/2010 9:41:14 AM   
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Common law, or maritime law?

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RE: Buy them out? - 10/22/2010 9:50:10 AM   
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RE: Buy them out? - 10/22/2010 10:11:59 AM   
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There isn't any fucking law in Somalia, pa: that's why they're doing this in the first place, is it not?


Why not take them to Disneyland?

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RE: Buy them out? - 10/22/2010 10:54:11 AM   
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RE: Buy them out? - 10/22/2010 1:58:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		Maybe the US shouldn't have funded the warlords and conspired with Ethiopia to destroy the ICU? It seems to me that no government in Somalia is an option the US prefers to the possibility of a stable Islamic government. 

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RE: Buy them out? - 10/22/2010 5:33:14 PM   
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There isn't any fucking law in Somalia, pa: that's why they're doing this in the first place, is it not?


Why not take them to Disneyland?




Force them to ride "small world" about 30 times. they'll never set foot on a fuckin' boat again,.

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RE: Buy them out? - 10/22/2010 5:50:39 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam


quote:

ORIGINAL: pahunkboy

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

There isn't any fucking law in Somalia, pa: that's why they're doing this in the first place, is it not?


Why not take them to Disneyland?




Force them to ride "small world" about 30 times. they'll never set foot on a fuckin' boat again,.



YEAH.

I wonder if they take American Express?

LOLOL

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RE: Buy them out? - 10/22/2010 6:21:45 PM   
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RE: Buy them out? - 10/22/2010 6:23:07 PM   
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