Belgium wants to station soldiers on Belgian merchant vessels

[Temujin]

Read this in the paper today, the gouverment is concidering placing trained military personel on Belgian merchant vessels to protect them from somali pirates. But the Socialist parties are against the idea.

I hope they do it, and I hope they kill some pirates that'll show them! All nations should do this really

 

[tommylaw]

Yeah, kill the pirate scum! Paint lots of advertisements on a frigate and trick the pirates into thinking its a trading vessel.

 

[13 Spider Bloody Chain]

Hmm...why is the Socialist party against the stationing of soldiers on ships?

 

[Elenmmare]

Heh, because you need a party for everything. My brother's all proud because the HMCS Winnipeg has stopped 11 pirate raids. I tell him it's most likely because of where it patrols, while subconsciously puffing out my chest.

 

[Dain Ironfoot]

Twas in the year two-thousand and eight, yo-ho me boys aharr!
We did hoist the jolly roger and set sail from Somaliarr,
Land-lubbers everywhere were so amazed at what we did!
We nicked a super-tanker and asked for twenty-five million quid!

So! Load up your kalashnikovs, yo-ho me boys aharr!
We're the pirates of the sea to the north-east of Africarr.

There's no mainbrace to splice, just diesel engines now instead,
There aint no plank to walk so we'll just shoot you in the head!
The papers call us pirates, though we're muggers in a boat!
Armed robbery is jolly while it's done when you're afloat!

So! Sharpen your machetes lads, yoho me boys aharr!
We're the pirates of the sea to the north-east of Africarr.
On land they'd recognise us for the psychos that we are!
We're the pirates of the sea to the north-east of Africarr.
We're the pirates of the sea to the north-east of Africarr!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoG_ZBIxB8Q

 

[uncreative]

I'm all for the "protect your booty with your lives" attitude. Lets show those monkeys who they're dealing with. We invented piracy!

 

[Elenmmare]

@Dain, ouchie, the "North-east of Africarr" ruins the melody!

 

[Gculk]

I'm all for it.  It gives soldiers experience in relatively non-combat role (on the american ship, the mostly unarmed civilians chased them off without casualties), while also improving safety greatly.

 

[Almalexia]

Hm... I dunno guys, with the economy going downhill, maybe we should invest in privateering again too. I mean, seriously, just look at the profits those *****es are making! That **** is lucrative!

 

[Redcoat-Mic]

I hope they do it, and I hope they kill some pirates that'll show them! All nations should do this really

Yeah, that'll show them!!!!!!!!!!


Show them what exactly? The pirates are poverty stricken locals who are doing it to survive, killing them will do nothing to deter others.

 

[El Perro Finlandese]

Who wants to go hijacking tankers in the Baltic Sea with me? 

 

[Elenmmare]

Who wants to go hijacking tankers in the Baltic Sea with me? 

Go looking for big metal tubs full of sweaty, poor men?

What the **** are we waiting for.

 

[tommylaw]

I hope they do it, and I hope they kill some pirates that'll show them! All nations should do this really

Yeah, that'll show them!!!!!!!!!!
Show them what exactly? The pirates are poverty stricken locals who are doing it to survive, killing them will do nothing to deter others.

If we hang their mutilated bodies from every Somali village they might learn.

 

[Almalexia]

Who wants to go hijacking tankers in the Baltic Sea with me? 

*raises hand*

 

[Almalexia]

I hope they do it, and I hope they kill some pirates that'll show them! All nations should do this really

Yeah, that'll show them!!!!!!!!!!
Show them what exactly? The pirates are poverty stricken locals who are doing it to survive, killing them will do nothing to deter others.

If we hang their mutilated bodies from every Somali village they might learn.

No, see, the problem is is that the people idolize the pirates. I mean, seriously, they are raking in ****loads of money, when quite a few people barely see a dollar at the end of the week. They are kinda like the sea-faring Robin Hoods of Somalia.

 

[tommylaw]

Except they dont give to the poor?

Then we make them so hideously unidiolizable(?) by hanging their mutilated corpses on every village.
And send them a stern warning, when you're out at sea, US soldiers will be raping your village.

 

[Mage246]

What could they possibly learn from us bombing them anyway? "Don't be poor and starving"?

 

[Almalexia]

Except they dont give to the poor?

Well, their always looking for new recruits. Heck, pirating is pretty much Somalia's main industry, and people are coming in in droves to get a share in it. So the young men sign up, they capture a ship, they get a ransom, and they send back more money to their family and village than they have likely seen in their lives. It's a pretty good gig, really.

 

[tommylaw]

What could they possibly learn from us bombing them anyway? "Don't be poor and starving"?

I didn't say bomb them.

If they're so poor, do what everyone else does and sell their children.

So the young men sign up, they capture a ship, they get a ransom, and they send back more money to their family and village than they have likely seen in their lives.

So we hang their mutilated bodies in their home village.

 

[Almalexia]

And then they seek revenge for their piratical benefactors. See where I'm going?