Blog #120

Now that a ship flying a U.S. flag has been involved in the piracy on the high seas, the press is finally mentioning it. As long as I can remember, pirates have been attacking ships especially along the South American and African coasts. Usually, these acts of piracy get little mention.
Now the world is being alerted...

Interestingly, the facts are starting to come out...
(1) All of these Somali pirates are muslims.
(2) All of the money that they have gotten from previous ransoms goes to Al Quada.
(3) When they are caught and turned over to "authorities", they are released, unpunished.

In Section 8 of our Constitution, it states that Congress has the power to "grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal...".
Why hasn't our Congress done this in all of these years ? Again, we see how incompetent our gov't. really is. It finally takes the press to bring the piracy issue into the public light before any action takes place.
Remember, this has been going on during your entire lifetime and nothing has been done about it.