Ron Paul's Buccaneers

b-b-b-but I thought pirates were those "sixteen or seventeen year old Black kids" that our newest Black Activist cum Leader of the Conservative movement cum, well, just plain come, when it comes to teabagging, if you know what I mean, said when he accused Obama of killing 'em simply because they were Doing Whatever it Was they Were Doing While Black.
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Just to make political points, not less...

Oh, FYI, there's "Driving While Black" or DWB, so that is actually DWIWTWDWB.
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Rush Limbaugh is such a great Black Activist, ain't he...

On a more serious not, even a libertarian has cronies.
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In the "contractor" trade...

"Tricked-out yachts," perhaps? "Tripped-out" suggests a psychedelicized crew.

So Ron's advocating a sort of Black Water on the high seas? Just a month or so ago a Thai fishing vessel was mistakenly identified as a pirate ship and sank by an Indian crew. I could just see this happening more and more. The whole idea just seems preposterous. Better to address the piracy problems at its root source in Somalia, while working with professional navies to curb the pirates in the mean time.

Plus, they might go under and we'd then have to bail them out too!

I'm not sure how well buccaneer ships would work, but I think what would work to defeat these pirates is to give coastal Somalians geater incentives to pursue a productive and honest living on the mainland. The U.S. strategic foreign aid budget could help catalyze this process, and an increase in funding in this highly successive department is necessary. The Borgen Project has good info on the estimated cost of ending global poverty:

$30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.

$550 billion: U.S. Defense budget.

"sixteen or seventeen year old Black kids"
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Maritime organizers.

Evidently, Jay Newton-Small and Time magazine haven't gotten word of the new, politically correct word for what Newton-Small maliciously calls "pirates". Race baiter Al Sharpton has now declared said "pirates" are to be called the "voluntary coast guard" of Somalia. Get with the program, Time magazine.

the booty incentives
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There's a teabag joke in here. I'm just too tired to find it.

From http://www.illegal-fishing.info:

"An estimated 700 foreign-owned vessels were engaged in unlicensed fishing in Somali waters in 2005, according to the Somali fishery country profile compiled by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). However, the agency said it was 'impossible to monitor their fishery production in general, let alone the state of the fishery resources they are exploiting. There is also strong suspicion of illegal dumping of industrial and nuclear wastes along the Somali coast.' "
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So this piracy isn't exactly coming out of nowhere. I'm just saying.

If tripped-out is what you really meant, fine. I'd have thought the crew might be tripped-out, but not the vessel.
Maybe that'll become the Refrain of the Repentant Pirate, per Donovan circa 1966: "Could've tripped out easy but I've changed my ways.
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In any event, the response is much appreciated.

The idea of swashbuckling privateer heroes ridding the seas of these parasites is a grand one, but a romantic dream symbolic of past foreign excursion blunders. Anyone ever year of human shields? The International Maritime Bureau reports at least 260 hostages reported I wonder if Commodore Paul would make the call to "Take 'em out, me hardees!" with hostages sitting in the bow?.
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We need to move on to more intelligent options in the short term and work on righting the ship of Somalia for its people in the long.
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Where's demwoman when you need her? Arggggh.

Oops, re-proofing always good when one's been interrupted.
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s/b The International Maritime Bureau reports at least 260 hostages being held in the country by pirates.

Sorry – neglected to close Donovan quote from "Sunshine Superman."

While certainly this solution would be a cheaper, free market way to deal with pirates
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I don't believe that for a second. Give some proof for it.

Since it was Ron Paul that suggested it, I guess we don't have to worry about it ever happening.

Commenter 2B named later: On another blog I frequent, the author posted recommendations for Somalia. The blog was immediately invaded by Somalian commenters, furious at his hubris.
After talking with them for a little bit, several mentioned what you did - that the pirate fleets come as a response to illegal fishing in their waters (which I hadn't known before).

Ron Paul is intelligent, serious and lucid. For a right-winger.

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At least buckets shouldn't be too expensive if they need bailing out?

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So, while Queen Elizabeth I rewarded Sir Francis Drake..
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If we can get Ron Paul to dress up in Queen Elizabeth drag, I'll happy to let Ron Paul write Letters of Marque to his heart's content...
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...Mr. Paul? Ralph Nader called to remind you that your 15 minutes are up.

Ron Paul dressed up in Queen Elizabeth drag? Doesn't Rudy Guliani have some kind of GOP copyright protection in that area?

"At least buckets shouldn't be too expensive if they need bailing out?"
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Depends on just which sea they're sinking in...