Quote Originally Posted by Pannonian View Post
We can dump them in America or Australia, as we used to do with our undesirables.
Thanks for the chuckle.


Seriously though, the only points in history where Piracy has been marginalized are those eras where pirates were considered a common threat and EVERYONE dealt with them harshly. In those by-gone and less enlightened times that meant that most of them met Jack Ketch -- and it was a certainty for any pirate leader.

Now the pirates can a) make a lot of money if the companies make the smart choice and pay rather than delay delivery of a valuable cargo, or b) get caught by naval forces and be 1) sent home to try again, or 2) incarcerated in a prison that provides a better standard of living than you had before you were a pirate and -- because of asylum laws and bureacracy -- may give you permanent residency as a free person in a country with a great standard of living. Into the bargain, they might even pay you for breathing as they do some of their own citizens.

All of us .orgers should consider pooling funds to buy some zodiacs and kalishnikovs and base ourselves in Madagascar somewhere. We're clearly NOT the smart ones.