To: “Commander in Chief” (Obama)
To: “United States Navy”
To: Her “Royal Majesty”, “British
Royal Navy”
To:
“Pirates of the Caribbean” Dr. Dinesh Chandra Khare….Arrrggg!
To: Crooked Mean Little Old Thailand
Pirate Doctor D.C. Khare
“United States of
America”, “Canada”, “Australia” ,Her “Majesty” the “Queen of England” and the
“British Royal Navy, my “Son” “Aaron Michael Halvorsen” (Hamilton II) your
“Mom” “Michelle”…xoxoxox “Commander in Chief” President (Obama),“The Vatican
City”, “My Grandmother” The “Holy Nun”
and Thee’ “Jesus Christ”(Thanks),“Switzerland” and “Finance Ministry”, “Ancient Greece”
And “Pirates of the
Caribbean” Dr. Dinesh Chandra Khare….Arrrggg!
I welcome you all to
Cmdr. Bluefin (USN) 2015 “Great Pirate Race”,
All you “Landlubber”,
this Buccaneer “Pirates of the Caribbean” Dr. Dinesh Chandra Khare….Arrrggg!
He’s be answerin’ to no “man” or “blasted
government”, a true scallywag scurvy dog…!
His Squadron of “sweet trade”
looting ships on the bloody world about has another (secrete) strong hold in
the “Island of the Caribbean”,
This one be “bloody obvious”, Ahoy and Shiver
me timbers! Fully loaded down with tons of “Booty”…
Piracy, any robbery or other violent action, for private
ends and without authorization by public authority, committed on the seas or in
the air outside the normal jurisdiction of any state.
Because piracy has been regarded as an offense against the law
of nations, the public vessels of any state have been permitted to seize a
pirate ship, to bring it into port, to try the crew (regardless of their
nationality or domicile), and, if they are found guilty, to punish them and to
confiscate the ship.
According to international law, piracy takes place
outside the normal jurisdiction of a state, without state authority, and is
private, not political, though acts of unlawful warfare, acts of insurgents and
revolutionaries, mutiny, and slave trading have been
defined as piracy by national laws of various countries or by special treaties.
Piracy has occurred throughout history.
In the ancient Mediterranean, piracy was often closely related
to maritime commerce, and the Phoenicians appear to have engaged in both, as
did the Greeks, the Romans, and the Carthaginians.
In the Middle Ages, Vikings from the north and
Moors from the south also engaged in piracy. At the conclusion of European wars
during the Renaissance and after, naval vessels were routinely laid up and
their crews disbanded; the unemployed crew from these ships were often drawn
into the service of pirates.
A common source of piracy was the privateer, a privately owned and armed
ship commissioned by a government to make reprisals, gain reparation for
specified offenses in time of peace, or prey upon the enemy in time of war; its
officers and crew were granted a share of the plunder taken from captured
vessels.
After a war the temptation was great to continue this profitable
business without authorization. During the wars between England and Spain in
the late 16th century, treasure-laden Spanish galleonssailing from Mexico into the
Caribbean were a natural target for privateers, and the distinction between
privateering and piracy became difficult to draw.
The so-called “golden age” of piracy occurred in the
Caribbean and in the waters off the American colonies in the century after
1650. This was the era of legendary figures such as Sir Henry Morgan,Blackbeard, and William Kidd (“Captain Kidd”). Pirate crews came
from every maritime country of Europe, and a good number of sailors were
African. Among the most successful pirates of South America was Jean-François Duclerc, a Frenchman who preyed on ships
in the area around Guanabara Bay (southeastern Brazil between Niterói and Rio
de Janeiro).
The exploits of these and other pirates later inspired a sizable
genre of popular romantic and children’s literature, perhaps best exemplified byRobert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (1881). In the late 20th century,
pirates became the subject of serious historical inquiry. Some scholars
portrayed pirate culture as a genuinely subversive radical movement that defied
the common distinctions of class and race and kept alive the dreams of
17th-century political radicals long after they had been defeated in England
and elsewhere.
Piracy also flourished in other regions. From the 16th to
the 18th century, after the weakening of Turkish rule had resulted in the
virtual independence of the Barbary States of North Africa, piracy became
common in the Mediterranean. Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli so tolerated or even organized piracy
that they came to be called pirate states.
In the early 19th century
these pirate states were suppressed by successive actions of American, British,
and French forces.
Although piracy declined dramatically in the 19th century,
the practice of hijacking ships and airplanes developed into a
new form of piracy in the late 20th century. The affinity between piracy and terrorism became of particular concern
after the hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise
liner by Palestinian militants in 1985 and after agents of al-Qaeda executed the September 11 attacks of 2001 in the United States.
In the last decades of the 20th century, nautical piracy
once again became prevalent in the seas of East and Southeast Asia and eastern
Africa, where acts of piracy were committed by or in cooperation with criminal
organizations involved in smuggling (of guns and drugs) and other illegal
activities.
These pirates sometimes operated under the protection of state
officials in small ports, who received a share of the illicit profits. An
upsurge of attacks in waters off the coast of Africa, particularly Somalia, in
2008–09 included the hijacking of ships belonging to several countries and led
to the forcible intervention of warships of several navies.
These events prompted the Western news media to reexamine the
special problems of international jurisdiction posed by such incidents and to
address themselves once more to historical lessons learned in the 18th
century—above all, the necessity of deploying armed force against pirates and
their home bases.
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