Armed Sailors?

03 June 07

More Marxist-agenda-driven, media sewage:

The History Channel recently aired a program on the subject of modern piracy at sea. When asked, selected "industry experts" all united in adamantly recommending against arming of ships' crews. Here is their peculiar "logic." It sounds curiously like the same, tired arguments routinely advanced against concealed-carry permits for citizens and armed convenience-store employees. Added is the plain-English translation:

(1) "It's against 'international law.'" Translation: Paranoid UN is frightened of armed peons.

(2) "It will lead to an 'escalation of violence.'" Translation: We leftist/elitists prefer one-sided violence, whether it be by criminal predators against unarmed victims or by our personal bodyguards against unarmed peons. After all, you at the bottom-of-the-food-chain exist only to serve us.

(3) "It is dangerous to fire a gun aboard a ship." Translation: Murdered peons we can deal with (they're insured and readily replaceable). A ship lost to piracy we can deal with (it's also insured, replaceable). But,the unthinkable: violent criminals who are hurt, or even inconvenienced, whiletrying to murder our employees will cause our insurance carrier to deny our claim.

(4) "Sailors don't know the first thing about guns." Translation: Peons are too stupid to be allowed to defend themselves.

(5) "Arming crews is futile, because pirates always outnumber them." Translation: You peons need to think of yourselves as just so much expendable cannon-fodder. We do!

(6) "There are complex liability issues." Translation: Innocent victims are blamed when violent predators get hurt. We would thus much rather bury our employees than be sued for the "wrongful death" of a violent criminal. Employees are readily replaceable. Their lives mean nothing to us.

The single member of an actual ship's crew interviewed held a contrary view. He was enthusiastically in favor of being armed while at sea. Imagine that! I'm pretty sure, in the same situation, I'd want to be armed too, as would any sane person.

"Insurance" has robbed everything of its intrinsic value, even human lives. It has converted us all into just another commodity, like beans, with neither value, nor dignity, nor honor.

These same elitists, who so piously, self-righteously condemn "war" in any form, simultaneously find nothing wrong with merciless massacres, where only one side does any fighting. For one, when given the choice between massacre and war, I'll choose war, every time. We "peons" need to start reclaiming our own magnificence!

/John