Just Because I Like Seeing It...

...I have to post this one more time:

Captain freed after snipers kill Somali pirates

Heh. You go, NavSeals. Long distance head shots from a moving boat to a moving boat? Suuuure. Whatever really happened, the long and the short of it is, we have three dead pirates, one live captain, and one angry Pirate community:

"From now on, if we capture foreign ships and their respective countries try to attack us, we will kill them (the hostages)," Jamac Habeb, a 30-year-old pirate, told the Associated Press from one of Somalia's piracy hubs, Eyl. "(U.S. forces have) become our No. 1 enemy."

Three words, Jamac. Bring. It. On.

I think it's high time to start issuing Letters of Marque. If so, I've got a money-making idea to beat the band:

Buy an old cruise ship/large pleasure yacht. Get yourself set up as a quasi security outfit a la Blackwater, then outfit it with a half-dozen Ma Deuces, M79 grenade launchers, and other fun toys. Add in Mariner shotguns and M1As interspaced every dozen feet or so. Then charge rich gun owners African safari prices to troll the high seas looking for pirates...

I'd wager you could get $25K/head easy for the chance to cut pirates to ribbons with a belt-fed .50 BMG machine gun...

Wonder how many times it would take a small boarding party to be turned into a reddish pink mist before they started getting the idea? With the notice that Mr. Habeb has given the international community, perhaps it will now be cheaper to escort merchant ships than to simply pay ransom? It's high time that something was done, and I mean something in the "killing the living hell out of damn pirates" family...

And lastly, as a parting thought, am I the only bloodthirsty bastard who wants to see the final five minutes of those three pirates lives played on YouTube with AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" as the soundtrack?

That is all.