Just admit it. There’s much to like about Vladimir Putin.
Following high level complaints about “imperfections” in international law, Russia announced Tuesday that captured Somali pirates “have all died.”
Update! And now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Alberta to spend $1.9M to help Somali youth resist drug trade.
h/t old Lori
And suddenly Russian shipping is never attacked again.
So who has a problem with this?
Dealing with pirates is one thing, and I applaud the Russian approach to dealing with the bastards, but saying there’s “much to like” about Putin?
I think not.
Well, if they attacked an American ship, and after being apprehended, probably within five years they would have US citizenship
So I guess “Act Like A Pirate Day” has been cancelled in Russia this year.
Sounds like a plan to me.
Citizenship and a Coast Guard posting.
Syncro
I guess their ship would have had a better chance of reaching the coast if it had not been in about ten thousand very small pieces.
Piracy? It is one of those death sentence things isn’t it?
Big Risk
Big Reward
Big Penalty
Ain’t Red Ed just a peach?
I wonder if any of this money will be directed towards educating the Somali drug dealers in the Canadian drug dealing hierarchy?
Maybe I can help them with the Coles Notes version.
#1. Politicians with large boats.
#2. Bi or even tri-lingual Montreal businessmen.
#3. Harley Enthusiasts.
#4. First Nations Entrepreneurs.
#5. Southeast Asian Refugees.
#6. Certain Prison guards.
#7. The homeless.
#8. Junior High Stoners.
#9. You guys.
Syncro
Red EDDY would just give them his sternest stare.
Wildrose is gonna put a thorn in your plans.
i t really has been awhile since i had a good laugh here on SDA but i think back to …you tube butt crack chainsaw guy …lol…loook it up if you want a laugh ..anyway ….
KOODOOS to ….REGULAR POSTER BOY …..UNCONSIOUS OBJECTOR……PETER ODONNELL …LOMAO@ YOU GUY’S
DJB..i agree ….but i certainly like his or some of his foriegn policy principles ..that being …if you F%$k with me i will F^%k you up ….royally ..and yes canada and all western nations need to act like him in this order…period these are savages and they are pack animals they know no civility they only no shiney flashy money goody ….foody goody ….so we need to treat them like so ..period . no trial no mercy no nothing just blood sh%t and broken bones ..and a sunken life raft .
ttyl
Paul in calgary .
Could it have been Sudden Onset Scurvy – SOS – that killed them all on their return voyage to the coast?
I’m guessing it was Acquired Incoming Deadly Shrapnel.
Syncro
Vlad throwing some folks around at St Petersburg dojo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7yjCaCQPO8
Before I answer the poll, are the Somali pirates firing indescriminately at every person in sight?
Because it may change my answer.
Those Russians . . . practical to a fault.
I am waiting for the outrage from the usual suspects.
No, they don’t initially come here to work in the oil patch. There intention was the drug trade from the start.
Regular PB,
And if it wasa Canadian boat there Amir Attaran would be on TV and the committee would be asking for the documents. End result would be 8 figures in compensation paid to the families of the pirates along with citizenship and permanent speaking engagements at every “progressive” conference for the next 10 years…..oh and a special report on the CBC.
Plausible deniability.
Poor maintained 3rd Pirate boat sinks “Miles away”.
The brick of plastique in the gas tank with timer? Mere coincidence.
The Russians have always been brutal with that sort of ass. Imperial, Bolshevik, Communist, New Russian, there’s a certain commonality.
I recall some middle eastern guys in lebanon holding a russian hostage 20-30 years ago. HEad of that group was found suffocated in a fresh skinned pig skin with “1st Warning” tacked on his forhead – or so the story goes.
It was amazing how few russians were ever kidnapped afterwards.
Maybe BoBo will ask Putin to fix the southern border invasion for him. BO has a hard time seeing the drug war waging, the reconquista turmoil and illegal violence in border states.
I’m having a deep belly laugh watching the self destructive left embrace La Raza racism, sedition and violence rather than deal with it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyE9OWc27X4
Muslims vitted by Pooty?
Ouch.
Would not it not be beautiful if the Russians could get their hands on the innvestment bankers and their appologists.
So,where do I apply for the “resistance to the drug trade” funding?
My business hasn’t been doing too well lately,and I just MIGHT be tempted,but for say,oh $3000 a month in resistance money,I won’t even consider the drug trade.
The Russians have always had a more realistic approach to terrorists and pirates,realizing,perhaps,that the cost of rehabilitating one of these lost souls is enough to educate about 300 of their own people.
Is Putin like the Russian Chuck Norris?
Bill Elder. If you do some fact checking or depending on who you want to believe,LaRaza receives funding from the Ford foundation.Conspiracy theory or conspiracy fact.
Ah the classic ‘make a horrible example to serve as a warning’ ploy. It works so well I don’t know why western society gave it up. Well for everyone but white guys that go to court that is.
The Putster apparently said “just shoo them; they don’t mean to be bad” and his naval commander heard “just shoot them and dress them in plaid”. Two horrible punishments, certainly, but I am guessing it will work.
“So come down don’t try to play the hero
Around here we got pirates with torpedos
Alongside all the warlords and beardos
The only city n@#gas blacker than tuxedos…” –I Come Prepared- K’Naan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHMafszsnaE
Speedy dont drink the Kool Aid.Division by class, race or any other means weakens, any meaningful resistance. Saul Alinsky wrote a book, Rules for Radicals, the establishment from both sides of the political spectrum must sleep with it under their pillow.
Ah, the modern-day Vlad the Impaler. Gotta love it.
Meanwhile, off Alberta’s shores …
Let’s see, Somalis come to Canada, repeat the same custom of lawlessness that is practiced in their shithole of a homeland. We nurture and reward their muslim criminal culture as part of our multiculty society, Putin shoots them.
Russian ships are left alone allowing more Somalis to be able to come to Canada, what am I missing here, is this not good for liberal Canada?
Lets see?
A MAN with kahoonas or Alberta’s shame?
HHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMM….
The fate of the Somali pirates captured by the
Russians reminds me of the old joke,
“How many KGB agents does it take to change a lightbulb? – Light bulb? What light bulb? There never was a light bulb.”
The KGB has never been known for their humanitarian work. Vlad the Impaler is just getting to the “root cause” of the latest piracy problems. More basketball courts in Mogadishu maybe? So how long can you tread water, comrade?
“A Russian official claimed that 10 pirates seized by Russian special forces aboard an oil tanker last week were quickly freed but then died on their way back to the Somali coast.” Lesson: anchors make lousy boats. Now we know.
Mmmm, according to the Tor Star, most of these misguided, untrained Somali youth are from Toronto. I think you could get a lot of Redmonton => Toronto bus tickets for $1.9 mill.
Like old ralph said ….SHOOT ….SHOVEL ….AND SHUT UP.
I think that would work nicley in this case as well.
Paul in calgary
I’m thinking that the flag shops are doing a booming business these days selling Russian flags!
The SS shot their prisoners, too.
It appears that the Commies, the Nazis and modern right wingers have a lot in common with each other.
Fred2 sums it up well.
Russians have had to deal with 3rd world brigands for millenia…even vikings….their reaction is cultural.
Actually I expected the PRC navy to do the first “whoops”….
I recall the situation off Lagos, Nigeria years back. Every time a ship arrived small boats swarmed out and were boarded. The boarders stole anything not nailed down and attacked any resistance. Then a CCCP freighter hove into harbour…..the boats went out and then returned….
no shots fired….
the Russians had machineguns mounted on the railings.
Unto everything there is a season…..
They say even a stopped clock is right twice a day. For once, I have to agree with Russian Pres. Medvedev, “We’ll have to do what our forefathers did when they met the pirates”.
Good on Russia.
I agree. Summary executions are the best way to deal with all sorts of things.
Dig the irony of ulianov @12:36. Dig it, baby!
Lavrenty Beria @1:02, he digs. And yes, Uli, I figure he’s your sock; and what point you’ve been trying to make with your convoluted ironic psuedonyms I’m actually not sure. Fiscal conservatives are the the real Stalinists? Objectivists fancy death camps?
Meh.
(In all honesty, this does make me feel a little queasy. Still, obviously, in the above poll, I went with Putin. Well, duh.)
Just because Russians mean business doesn’t mean Putin is a great guy. This is the same man who thinks Stalin is a hero.
Food for though.
“It appears that the Commies, the Nazis and modern right wingers have a lot in common with each other.”
Yes, it’s called “sense” which Progressives seem to have none.
“Sense” meaning a love of violence and totalitarianism, no doubt.
“”Sense” meaning a love of violence and totalitarianism, no doubt.”
No, “sense” meaning: you have no sense!
You can’t really, considering you’re the Progressive arguing that “modern right wingers” have a love of totalitarianism and have traits common with Communists and Nazis(you know the German-Socialist Workers Party). Ridiculous!
One thing is for certain, your desire to redefine the definition of words like “sense” suits the cookie cutter image of classic Communists and Nazis.