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corner.nationalreview.com - 4/13/2009

Want to Prevent Piracy? Privatize the Ocean

— corner.nationalreview.com — Following the freeing of American ship captain Richard Phillips from a band of Somali pirates Sunday, commentators... have turned their attention to what can be done to control and prevent future piracy. The solutions suggested so far are what you might ... (more) Want to Prevent Piracy? Privatize the Ocean

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abcnews.go.com - 4/12/2009

Somali Pirate Standoff Ended With Just Three Shots

— abcnews.go.com — The light wasn't good, the murky darkness of night just starting to lift. The sea was rolling,... making the targets move around as well as giving the shooters an unsteady platform. A miss could be disastrous. But the trio of Navy Seals who had been ... (more) Somali Pirate Standoff Ended With Just Three Shots

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newsbusters.org - 4/13/2009

Leftwing Blogosphere Picks Up Al-Jazeera Theme: Somali Pirates Are Misunderstood Ecologists

— newsbusters.org — Amid the widespread relief that the captain of the Maersk Alabama, Richard Phillips, was freed from the... Somali pirates, there is a growing feeling among the left that those pirates are "misunderstood." The idea of those pirates as really ... (more) Leftwing Blogosphere Picks Up Al-Jazeera Theme: Somali ...

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Hats off to the SEALs
Cold Fury — ... ,” and deploring his courageous acts of resistance. Which is to be expected, naturally; obvious bravery is always a nettlesome, shaming thing to passive milksops who possess not an iota of it themselves. And in the end, it’s all about the environment anyway, you know. Sheesh, what predictable, hapless dolts. No matter, though; in the end, it’s three cheers for the SEALs (one for each dead goblin), and three groans for the meathead Left. Bravo, Navy — and encore! No comments have been added to this post yet. Leave a comment Name (required) E-mail (required) Website URI ...

"I wonder which principled member of our corporate media will point out that, in the big picture, the Somali pirates are acting in self-defense?"
Ace of Spades HQ — "I wonder which principled member of our corporate media will point out that, in the big picture, the Somali pirates are acting in self-defense?" Answer: None, but only because Lord God King Obama killed them, and that is by definition a Good Thing. I had these in the sidebar but it seems to be a trend: HuffPoster defends Somali piracy as some sort of low-tech Captain Planet environmental vengeance; and a poster at Crooks and Liars ...