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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (282817)12/3/2008 9:59:20 AM
From: Alan Smithee  Read Replies (1) of 794270
 
Arming merchantmen, privatizing seaborne defenses, adding naval patrols or the other measures that have been recently suggested to provide more security at sea do not answer the unconventional challenge. These measures can discourage piracy, but none of them impose unacceptable costs on the pirates. Until the pirates are forced to confront such consequences, they will continue their low-cost/high yield practices.

In other words, if you hijack a ship, your village, and everything in it, gets leveled.
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