British Yachtie murdered in Thailand

One said nothing of the sort.
I do wish you would actually read my comments accurately before issuing inappropriate sarcastic comment. Are you a moderator or a critic?

Where did this sleep business come from? What I read was:

I further read:

So now, You're awake. You have you're wife to keep from harm. Should you invite the invaders to a cup of tea and some scones while you help them bind her?

Ta kap.

NYCAP123
Your continually contrary snippets, and now yet again, have suggested strongly that I am referring directly, or with any denigration or assumed knowledge of detail, to the incident that ( one has read) happened off Satun or Langkawi at the Butang group.

I have made no such comment or judgement whatsoever. Nor would I so do and I resent the implication of incivility. If you wish to 'read between the lines' that my intention is such, then please allow me here, simultaneously, to disabuse you of that assumption and profoundly apologise for the ambiguity of my in-erudite written English.

I have referred to that incident only insofar as, first, the general security issue it raises for all; second, a comments made prior to mine which I felt arrogant and misleading and, lastly, in light of one's particular knowledge of the particular subject in that particular area. (ie. Malacca Straits & S.E.A. area generally for >20yrs and >2k logged d.a.s. in towing, escort and harbour security as well as private vessel ops.)

I have stated my points based on my, you may well consider insufficient, experience but, they are offered in good faith and are what I truly believe.
After all, one IS still alive and one has never lost a single hand!

So I hope only that my words may give, at least, some pause for thought to one or two, with more considerate tenor, who are thinking about voyaging in slow boats with little freeboard in that part of the world. ( A place which I consider relatively safe, by the way.)

However, one has no particular interest in continually negative or, in particular, sarcastic contrariness rather than 'discussion ', so, not to irritate you further, I will sign off and withdraw from the forum. Thank you for your time.

You entered a thread about a particular situation. If you look into my posts in the threads about weapons on board and about piracy I think you'll find that the views you espouse are not far off from my own in general, but this is not those threads. Sorry if I seem arbitrary, but again, I'm talking about this situation in particular.

Body Found

Malcolm's body has been recovered.

Good news for Linda and her family who can now have a funeral and some form of closure. Good news for the prosecution in a land where there has never been a conviction for murder without a body.

You think that the Vietnam war did not qualify as threatening or frightening for the Vietnamese?

Succinctly put. One yearned to make the same comment, but then noticed the logo and realized there was little point.

Logo

Indeed, note the "logo" as you call it . . .

Any statement that encompasses an entire race, region. nationalty or whatever and not accounting for individual circumstances is just plain rediculous. RobVer used his experience for this statement, Rocdiver used his. Don't dishonor a man for his service for his country.

"threatened or frightened." is "accounting for individual circumstances".

Rocdiver did serve the country and I am greatful for that, that does not change the underlying logic of the situation though. To put it symbolically RobVer said X if not Y, Rocdiver came in and said, well I was in Y and not X there for you are wrong, it just doesn't tell you anything though.

Guess I've been out of algebra for too long, because what I read implied that a certain nationality had no aggressive criminal element. This after 3 armed men invaded a boat occupied by one man and one woman, slit the man's throat and threw his body overboard like so much garbage and then stayed there terrorizing the woman for 12 hours.

If you ignore the conditional statements you will misunderstand what someone has said. I'm not even in agreement with what was said before by Rob but...

Rob Said that SEA's (South East Asians) are only Aggressive if Threatened or Scared

Roc Said that he was in a War where SEA's were Aggressive

Roc's Statement only invalidates Rob's Statement if the War was a War where people are not Threatened or Scared.

Robs original statement says NOTHING about SEA's when they are feeling Threatened or Scared, so any counterexample involving exclusively Threatened or Scared SEA's says NOTHING about Rob's original statement.

It means that spell check didn't catch my typo's and misspellings.

Presumably you could have figured that out, especially considering that I used the word Statement on the order of 4 times.