Christian Clarity Review

October 8, 2008

Somali pirates to be paid? The US gets cost of fuel plus twenty percent from the shipping company.

Of all the movies in which the bad guys out-clever the cops and get away with the loot ( that they assure those in the bank is “the banks money, not your money. Your money is insured by the Federal government! ” so as to supposedly make their robbery morally upright for robbing the robbers while reminding the little people who is in ‘control’…) ? Being on board a ship at sea, surrounded by American warships ..how do you suppose the pirates would get away with it? Underwater hijinks? Techno-wizadry? One guy getting picked to hold his breath for a really long time? Really large mirrors? The old standby of just saying “What’s that over there?!” to make the guard look away?

You’re obviously an honest person institutionalized in honesty and the effects of it and thinking in the box. Gotta think outside the box. Fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good AND evil, remember.

Scenario: nowhere to go, can’t take the ship somewhere else; the whole point is to get the money. You are vastly outnumbered and outgunned. Your buddies on another ship they hijacked are losing their hair and dying off as you dither because they don’t have the “security codes” to even see what they hijacked and is killing them. What do you do?

If your are black, not Christian, wear tennis shoes and t-shirts to war, have taken tanks ( tanks! ) hostage and no one really wants to admit whose tanks they are or would have been, can kill off your government so as to grant you questionable diplomatic status as an unruly backwater in which other actual nations can conduct business under a blanket of chaos ..you get the money AND a place to spend it with no criminal repercussions. You are a hero to other aspiring liars and thieves ..and NGO’s who want to sell their own brand of Fix for “poverty, lack of ability to deal with unwanted pregnancies and illiteracy” that supposedly made the good people into pirates.

The diamond heist? High speed ..plans, schematics, “genius level” cleverness, tricking out the alarms, making the guard go to sleep and then report that all is well? Old news.

Replacing the real thing with a fake thing with all the ingenuity that implies while snookering the alarm system like a diamond heist? Kindergarten stuff.

Industrial or even national espionage for pay? What for? Guys in speedboats just made at least two nations spend the diesel and pay of the the crews of several warships for doing what could have been accomplished by simply doing nothing but letting “the company” pay a ransom after the pirates made an offer the Nations couldn’t refuse.

Easy money. Protection money.

How much?

This ain’t running in and grabbing the cash out of the charity bowl on the counter: “around $8 million”. Ask for it in pure gold talents. Gold retains its value. So they say.

It’s all a joke right? They caught them and now they are going to let them go AND pay them ..8 million. No one is kidding.

excerpted from: Somali pirates near a ransom deal, but questions linger over arms cargo

After sticky negotiations, which several people involved likened to bazaar-style haggling, a deal seemed to be close in which the pirates would be paid millions of dollars and the ship would be freed.

“The pirates and the ship owners have agreed on around $8 million,” said Ahmed Omar, a businessman in Xarardheere, a notorious pirate den on the coast of Somalia. “The ship may be freed today or tomorrow.”

Maritime officials in Kenya were more cautious, saying crucial details had to be worked out. For starters, the pirates were asking for guarantees that they would not be arrested or blown out of the water by the armada of American warships currently circling them.

“This isn’t like buying a used car and driving off,” said a maritime official in Kenya. “The lousy money is only part of this.”

SO:

Now the price of shipping goes up, the insurance goes up and the consumer pays more everywhere as the most powerful navy in the world helps make the point its government made in the “bail out” of dishonest banks: there is no point in being honest AND no point in catching criminals in the act of criminality. Honest people AND their security apparatus are suckers and indeed, cowards and cannot enforce what they themselves claim is morality in what they themselves say is their own free will. You got what you paid for when you kept saying honesty prohibits Just and Righteous violence against aggression.

The name of the movie will have to be something like “She said she wanted to be raped!” “In your face!’ or at least “In broad daylight”.

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Blow the whole ship out of the water with pirates on board. Don’t ship weapons to people who shouldn’t get them.

At the least the shipping company pays the fuel bill for the navy presence and pays it with interest and immediately with a 20% profit for the American people. More free navy presence encourages more taking advantage of that navy presence. The US taxpayer doesn’t need to get hit with the bill to protect gun running Russians or Iranian ships carrying what seems to be radioactive “something”. ( or per the story possibly chemical weapons for Islamic militants.. WMD no matter how you slice it..)

Shipping companies can at least pay what they would have paid to pirates to security professionals on board. And if guys in t-shorts and tennis shoes can manhandle the security apparatus of multiple nations, who isn’t a security professional?

Or was that the lesson to finally be learned by the public who is being taxed simply to have the idea of having a Navy?


Psalm 125:3-5 For the sceptre of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity. Do good, O Jehovah, unto the good, and to them that are upright in their hearts. But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, Jehovah will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel!

In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen

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