Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
I’m amazed these days, how lawfare has shaken us so much we can witness a criminal act and…well…it’s all just “alleged.”
Yeah, “alleged” sounds stupid, but it’s standard journalist practice/rules to label anyone arrested as such. Part of that innocent until proven guilty thing we have (of course watching the news, this obviously gets kicked to the curb way too frequently).
Yep. “Alleged.” Innocent until proven guilty. Even in cases where you witnessed the crime and KNOW they’re guilty. Gotta wait on the courts to rule.
Thus my old newspaper didn’t call folks “illegal aliens,” because uninvited people crossing our borders were often later ruled LEGAL immigrants. They ditched “aliens” because it made them sound like sci-fi monsters. Honest.
How rude!
Some have used dynamite for fishing. Why not an RPG? We should mind our own business.
I liked the cruise site, their rates are low and the rental is cheap
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Be careful of what you’re fishing for, you’re liable to catch it. With some assistance from the Navy SEALS, they caught it.
@Wilko, during this same event, this was a US Flagged Vessel. Therefore, we were minding our own business.
I know. I know. My first choice was to scuttle the vessel with all aboard.
You seem a little Grumpy.
Maybe the assault rifles were for shooting fish in a barrel?
I’m always *Grumpy*! If I had my way, I would suggest a trip to the Bahamas area. *Note*, I said absolutely nothing about landing! Now the debate begins, What altitude? Do we want them to become environmentalists? I was thinking about something more like, “Life Sustaining Members of the Shark Preservation Society”.
But wait!,How do you expect those poor innocent fishermen to protect themselves from pirates (you do know there are pirates in those waters, don’t you?) if you confiscate all their weapons?