Good News on the Piracy Front

For years now African pirates have terrorized the seas, kidnapping victims, and stealing cargo at gunpoint. The world has looked on. The US has been busy with other matters, and the UN, as we all know, or should know, is pretty much useless at actually accomplishing anything.

So, I was heartened to read this:

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'Pirate' dies as ship's guards repel attack off Somalia

A suspected pirate has been shot dead as private guards repelled an attack on a cargo ship off Somalia, in what may have been the first such incident.

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Why the BBC felt the need to put Pirate in quotes, and compelled to qualify the sentence with "suspected", I have no idea. When you attack another ship on the open seas, you're a pirate. When you're shot, you're a dead pirate.

Sometimes, lethal force is necessary. This is one of them. Lawlessness in a nation or people group must be quelled.

Pirates, beware.

And that's the way the banishing-the-buccaneers Ball bounces.