There’s no place to hide on the water when you have eyes in the sky — and that includes the Somali pirates taking over oil tankers.

The U.N. is staring down on the Somali pirates from space. UNOSAT, the international body’s satellite analysis wing, has produced a pair of reports,
giving fresh views of the ships hijacked off the coast of east Africa,
detailing their captors’ activities — and even snooping on the
pirates’ home base.

Using images taken from the Quickbird commercial imaging satellite,
the group is plotting out exactly where ships are being captured, and
where they’re being held.

How fast will predator drones be flown in to fire lasers into the eyes of the pirates and disable them with blindness moments before they are all killed and the oil is made safe again?

Do pirates deserve international mercy or not?

2 Comments

  1. ANNE – I live and teach on the upper West Coast of the United States. My interests are Philosophy, English, and Social Communication.
    ANNE says:

    Wish they’d find a way to blow them all up. This isn’t a hundred years ago. Pirates stopped doing business for a reason. They got killed off.

  2. David Boles – New York City – David Boles was born in Nebraska and holds an MFA from the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is an author, dramatist, editor, publisher, and teacher who writes across the live stage, print, radio, television, film, and the web. With more than 50 books in print, David continues to write 2MM words a year and has authored over 25K articles. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Authors Guild, and PEN America, and founded The United Stage advocacy platform on the principle that playwrights have a duty to direct their own work. Read the Prairie Voice Archive at Boles.com | Buy his books at David Boles Books Writing & Publishing at BolesBooks.com | Study with Script Professor at ScriptProfessor.com | Touch American Sign Language mastery at Hardcore ASL at HardcoreASL.com | Explore the Human Meme podcast at HumanMeme.com | Train with Boles Bells at BolesBells.com.
    David W. Boles says:

    It’s great to have you with us on the new blogs, Anne! Welcome! I can sense your anger and I concur. Why go criminal? You know the pirate effort won’t last long. The good guys have bigger and better guns.

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