Oh, I don’t know about that.
It seems to have served as good target practice.
Habituallinecrosser suspects that we saved a ton of money engaging the narco boat with one of the Navy’s shiny new lasers.
OH PITY THE POOR USPHS OFFICERS. Perhaps arming them isn’t a good idea. Or maybe it would be in certain locations and job descriptions.
September 6, 2025 at 7:23 am
PCChaos
The scourge of piracy, the Golden Age, ended by 1795 because the pirates were either killed at sea or brought ashore before the purview of an admiralty court, tried and hanged in 24 hours at the low watermark of the shore. Due process? Maybe. Maybe not. A TOI means kintetic response now, not board, search and seize. Fk’em. They pollute our streets with a product that kills North Americans, they forfeit due process. It is a slippery slope. Bring sleds.
Back to where were were with the rum runners during Prohibition. The killer app there was cryptanalysis. The rum runner codes were used to communicate by radio; and one of America’s best cryptanalysts broke them.
Yep, ain’t that the truth. We’ve been shot at a few times, and did NOT return fire, which happened maybe 15 years ago. The boys on that boat were not from Texas. Not my boat. But shooting TOI who fail to heed the lawful orders of duly appointed law enforcement officers, well, doom on them.
September 6, 2025 at 5:26 pm
Mort
Eon, very interesting about Elizebeth
Friedman; Thanx for the link.
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 am
SailormanCGA72
When I was in the Coast Guard, it was very disheartening to see the drug traffickers out on bond and headed back south for another load before we could even get our paperwork submitted up the chain of command.
There’s no plea bargain, pretrial diversion, commutation, pardon or parole from the graveyard- – – – -particularly when said graveyard is at the bottom of the ocean!
As is all too common up here, people voted for legal dope and a nice haircut because the national broadcasters told them to. Remember, judges up here are appointed by the party in power with no need for hearings, vettings, experience or votes. The same with Senators, no elections required just an understanding that they will always vote for the PM that appointed them. MP’s are no better, the PM signs their nomination papers and if the ydisplease him, he signs someone else’s instead. sockboys step-daddy said it best, and I paraphrase, ‘Members of Parliament are nothing but trained seals and a hundred yards from Parliament, they’re nobody.’
Commie police chief from York MacSween, “Run and hide, give them what they want, wait for officers to arrive.”
Because that makes it so much safer for the cops and easier to write up the reports after you are dead and the BG is long gone…
Makes sense to them I guess, but y’all need to borrow our sheriff from the next county north of me; Grady Judd says “I advise my people to be armed and if some thug is busting in your door, bust some 12 gauge back through the and blow that POS to smithereens,,,” and “If you kick my door in, in the middle of the night, I will kill you graveyard dead”.
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President Trump is playing hardball, while the progressives are stuck losing at Pong.
A special version of Milton Bradley’s “Broadsides™” battleship game, in which he knows where the enemy ships are already.
“You sunk my narco ship!”
Waste of a good boat
Oh, I don’t know about that.
It seems to have served as good target practice.
Habituallinecrosser suspects that we saved a ton of money engaging the narco boat with one of the Navy’s shiny new lasers.
Beware World of the US ‘War Dept’
Now rename our ID cards …”Armed Forces” instead of “Uniformed Services”
OH PITY THE POOR USPHS OFFICERS. Perhaps arming them isn’t a good idea. Or maybe it would be in certain locations and job descriptions.
The scourge of piracy, the Golden Age, ended by 1795 because the pirates were either killed at sea or brought ashore before the purview of an admiralty court, tried and hanged in 24 hours at the low watermark of the shore. Due process? Maybe. Maybe not. A TOI means kintetic response now, not board, search and seize. Fk’em. They pollute our streets with a product that kills North Americans, they forfeit due process. It is a slippery slope. Bring sleds.
Back to where were were with the rum runners during Prohibition. The killer app there was cryptanalysis. The rum runner codes were used to communicate by radio; and one of America’s best cryptanalysts broke them.
https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2022/april/mother-cryptology
And the USCG was as likely to sink a “Black” (as the boats were coded) as stop and board it.
The rum runners were armed and predisposed to shoot it out. As much with competing rum runners or would-be hijackers on shore as anybody else.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
clear ether
eon
Yep, ain’t that the truth. We’ve been shot at a few times, and did NOT return fire, which happened maybe 15 years ago. The boys on that boat were not from Texas. Not my boat. But shooting TOI who fail to heed the lawful orders of duly appointed law enforcement officers, well, doom on them.
Eon, very interesting about Elizebeth
Friedman; Thanx for the link.
When I was in the Coast Guard, it was very disheartening to see the drug traffickers out on bond and headed back south for another load before we could even get our paperwork submitted up the chain of command.
There’s no plea bargain, pretrial diversion, commutation, pardon or parole from the graveyard- – – – -particularly when said graveyard is at the bottom of the ocean!
Give ’em to Vanderdecken. Davey Jones has higher standards.
Zar Belk!
Sorry OT, but having read some about the homeowner Canuckistan who injured an intruder only to be charged himself???
And when the outrage came, that commie gov recommended to homeowners when their home is invaded, to just comply and don’t resist…
What the effin’ Eff has happened to y’all up there???
As is all too common up here, people voted for legal dope and a nice haircut because the national broadcasters told them to. Remember, judges up here are appointed by the party in power with no need for hearings, vettings, experience or votes. The same with Senators, no elections required just an understanding that they will always vote for the PM that appointed them. MP’s are no better, the PM signs their nomination papers and if the ydisplease him, he signs someone else’s instead. sockboys step-daddy said it best, and I paraphrase, ‘Members of Parliament are nothing but trained seals and a hundred yards from Parliament, they’re nobody.’
Commie police chief from York MacSween, “Run and hide, give them what they want, wait for officers to arrive.”
Because that makes it so much safer for the cops and easier to write up the reports after you are dead and the BG is long gone…
Makes sense to them I guess, but y’all need to borrow our sheriff from the next county north of me; Grady Judd says “I advise my people to be armed and if some thug is busting in your door, bust some 12 gauge back through the and blow that POS to smithereens,,,” and “If you kick my door in, in the middle of the night, I will kill you graveyard dead”.