Morons
February 22nd 2011 18:29
According to the Associated Press, Jean and Scott Adam, of Marina del Rey near Los Angeles, the owners of the hijacked yacht The Quest, and their guests, Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle, of Seattle, Washington, were murdered by their Somali pirate captors today off the coast of East Africa as their yacht was being trailed by the USS Sterett, a guided-missile destroyer. Vice Adm. Mark Fox, commander of U.S. naval forces for the Central Command, reported that negotiations had been continuing with the pirates when the pirates fired a rocket propelled grenade at the USS Sterett, and they began killing the hostages on the yacht. US special operations forces boarded the yacht, killed one pirate with gunfire and one by knife, captured thirteen, and tried to save the lives of the American victims, but the victims died.
This was a tragedy that did not have to happen. Jean and Scott Adam had been warned; “Scott Adam, 70, had previously discussed the dangers of piracy when navigating the Arabian and Red seas. Adam had considered shipping the boat to avoid the dangers of the trip but decided instead to join a rally of yachts heading to the same location. The couple, however, apparently decided to break off from the Blue Water Rally, which organized and supported the group of boats headed toward the Mediterranean. Blue Water Rally organizers released a statement on Saturday that said the Adams chose to take an independent route from Mumbai to Salalah, Oman, and left the rally on Feb. 15. They were hijacked three days later.” (“Somali pirates kill 4 American boaters,” David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times, 2/22/11).
Not only did Jean and Scott Adam stupidly put their own lives in danger by sailing a boat load of Christian bibles in waters patrolled by Islamic pirates (Muslim terrorists), they endangered the lives of their guests and the special operations forces that had to try to rescue them. What makes people selfishly believe they can do whatever they want, put themselves in any dangerous position they choose, make moronic decisions, and then expect others to risk their lives to bail them out?
Two West Point cadets, had decided, according to a United States Military Academy spokeswoman, to “conduct rappelling on their own” down the jagged red-brown cliffs of Storm King Mountain, which is 1,300 feet above sea level and looms over the Hudson River in Orange County, New York. During the afternoon, the cadets found themselves stuck on a narrow shelf about 500 feet off the ground, unable to ascend or descend from that location. A New York City Police helicopter had to be dispatched. It had to hover 20 feet from the cliff walls in high winds, risking the lives of the helicopter crew as well as the cadets during the rescue, all because these supposedly intelligent young men made stupid decisions.
In October 2006, Rachel and Paul Chandler’s boat was hijacked by Somali pirates off the coast of Tanzania. Instead of heading east or south from the Seychelles, in a stupid move, they headed west, towards Tanzania and the pirates. Then, for almost a year, their family and friends begged the British government to pay any ransom and mount any rescue attempt in order to free these morons. It didn’t matter what the cost would be in money or lives to set these idiots free to make the same mistake again; to their friends and family, their lives were more precious than those of their potential rescuer’s.
I’m truly sorry for the deaths of Jean and Scott Adam, but they had to know better. They had to know that Somali pirates would be quite angry at the 30 year sentence given to fellow pirate Jama Idle Ibrahim, they had to know about the hijacking of Rachel and Paul Chandler’s yacht, and they had to know about the hijacking of all the freighters in the same waters that they were headed into. I am even sorrier for the deaths of Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle, both of whom relied on the experience of Jean and Scott Adam to keep them safe. They were morons for putting their trust in morons.
This was a tragedy that did not have to happen. Jean and Scott Adam had been warned; “Scott Adam, 70, had previously discussed the dangers of piracy when navigating the Arabian and Red seas. Adam had considered shipping the boat to avoid the dangers of the trip but decided instead to join a rally of yachts heading to the same location. The couple, however, apparently decided to break off from the Blue Water Rally, which organized and supported the group of boats headed toward the Mediterranean. Blue Water Rally organizers released a statement on Saturday that said the Adams chose to take an independent route from Mumbai to Salalah, Oman, and left the rally on Feb. 15. They were hijacked three days later.” (“Somali pirates kill 4 American boaters,” David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times, 2/22/11).
Not only did Jean and Scott Adam stupidly put their own lives in danger by sailing a boat load of Christian bibles in waters patrolled by Islamic pirates (Muslim terrorists), they endangered the lives of their guests and the special operations forces that had to try to rescue them. What makes people selfishly believe they can do whatever they want, put themselves in any dangerous position they choose, make moronic decisions, and then expect others to risk their lives to bail them out?
Two West Point cadets, had decided, according to a United States Military Academy spokeswoman, to “conduct rappelling on their own” down the jagged red-brown cliffs of Storm King Mountain, which is 1,300 feet above sea level and looms over the Hudson River in Orange County, New York. During the afternoon, the cadets found themselves stuck on a narrow shelf about 500 feet off the ground, unable to ascend or descend from that location. A New York City Police helicopter had to be dispatched. It had to hover 20 feet from the cliff walls in high winds, risking the lives of the helicopter crew as well as the cadets during the rescue, all because these supposedly intelligent young men made stupid decisions.
In October 2006, Rachel and Paul Chandler’s boat was hijacked by Somali pirates off the coast of Tanzania. Instead of heading east or south from the Seychelles, in a stupid move, they headed west, towards Tanzania and the pirates. Then, for almost a year, their family and friends begged the British government to pay any ransom and mount any rescue attempt in order to free these morons. It didn’t matter what the cost would be in money or lives to set these idiots free to make the same mistake again; to their friends and family, their lives were more precious than those of their potential rescuer’s.
I’m truly sorry for the deaths of Jean and Scott Adam, but they had to know better. They had to know that Somali pirates would be quite angry at the 30 year sentence given to fellow pirate Jama Idle Ibrahim, they had to know about the hijacking of Rachel and Paul Chandler’s yacht, and they had to know about the hijacking of all the freighters in the same waters that they were headed into. I am even sorrier for the deaths of Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle, both of whom relied on the experience of Jean and Scott Adam to keep them safe. They were morons for putting their trust in morons.
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