Piracy

ladajo · Post by **ladajo** » Sat May 21, 2011 6:27 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13486015

And what will the defended ship to regarding rendering aid once the embarked guard detail shreds a pirate attack?

Law of the Sea drama here...

MSimon · Post by **MSimon** » Sat May 21, 2011 6:39 pm

A return to the Letters of Marque Era?

This will get sorted in the coming years as the ME balloon goes up. No one will notice when a pirate village gets smoked when large cities in the ME are flaming ruins.

djolds1 · Post by **djolds1** » Sun May 22, 2011 12:29 am

MSimon wrote:A return to the Letters of Marque Era?

This will get sorted in the coming years as the ME balloon goes up. No one will notice when a pirate village gets smoked when large cities in the ME are flaming ruins.

Register all such ships as naval reserve vessels out of Singapore.

Any bien pensants who wants to contest it get to deal with losing trading rights and safe passage guarantees along the Straits of Malacca.

ladajo · Post by **ladajo** » Sun May 22, 2011 3:27 am

I dunno. I think there are going to be some issues with this. Like weapons on board for ports of entry, what legal basis private teams will have regarding taking prisoners, and what they would do with them afterwards. The previous mentioned law of the sea regarding required aide.
This IMHO will be messy.
I agree, smoking a few pirate twons would certainly put a damper on things, but to be fair, the pirated numbers compared to total shipping via the Bab-el-Mandeb is purty darn small.

KitemanSA · Post by **KitemanSA** » Sun May 22, 2011 2:31 pm

You don't have to take out an entire town.

We have micro-trace capability out the wazoo now. Put trackers on a bunch of stuff going thru the area. If any gets hijacked, wait a bit till it gets semi dispersed and then take out any building that has, or has had, a tracible item. Put the fear of Allah into anyone who is involved in the pirating and disbursing of international trade goods.

Not building that has such tracible goods can be entirely innocent; but don't wait TOO long as the degree of innocence degree increases with time and distance.

Just a thought.

ladajo · Post by **ladajo** » Sun May 22, 2011 7:54 pm

You are nicer than me. After my experiences with the silliness back in 2003, when we said we could stop it within weeks, I still maintain we could do the same, if the will existed.
Until now, it remains more or less an inflated nuisance via the media at large. Although, the violence trend has changed the game for the pirates, and they don't even know it. Smae thing happened over in Malacca area. Look how piracy has flourished there since they got more violent...