[geeks] [rescue] Airport Security and Rescues...

[hike]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Mike Meredith <very at zonky.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:01:50 -0400, hike wrote:
> > These were the Berber pirates.
> > The Berbers ruled the southern Mediterranean.
> > Most European paid a tribute/access fee/bribe not to be pirated.
> > The USA was young and the Navy was new.
> > They (Naval or Politicos or Administration) wanted to make a name for
> > the USA.
> > The USA Navy "swept the seas" and the Berbers relented.
> > This gave all European fee-free passage of the southern Mediterranean
> > becuase the USA Navy took care of the situation.
> > Today Algeria is the area today's BerBers reside.
>
> You might want to read some easily available history on the subject ...
> it wasn't that simple. The US Navy weren't the first to try suppressing
> the Barbary pirates and they weren't the last. The pirates were
> effectively finished after France invaded the country in 1830.
>
> The US also wasn't entirely innocent of paying danegeld either.
>
> --
> Mike Meredith (http://zonky.org/)
>   If you play the Windows CD backwards you hear a satanic message.
>  But it gets worse... If you play it forwards it installs Windows.
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You mean the government school didn't teach me all the story?

I'm shocked!
I've been robbed!
(Still am since I pay property taxes for the crappy goverment schools!)

Hike
"We don't want your education.  We don't want your mind control."