Reaaaaaaaaaallly, ECSNorway? Really? Why don't you tell us your thoughts about the kidnapping/rapist/murdering guards at Guantanamo Bay and other American
prisons, and those above them right up to the last President and Vice-President of the United States that authorised all that? Somehow I'll bet you have
words other than "vile" to describe them, despite it being on public record both that all of these things happened and that it was at worst condoned
and far more likely explicitly authorised all the way up to the top.
The Somali pirates do what they do because their country was destroyed by Westerners, and their livelihood taken away by Westerners and Asians. Starvation is
so rampant in Somalia that the country is a byword for it, there isn't even a functional government, 73% of the population lives on less than $2 a day, and
there has been a civil war going on with absolutely horrific levels of brutality for nearly 20 years, for which Western involvement for the last 10 years was
limited to US air strikes, which themselves were only used in an attempt to kill Al Qaeda operatives. In return, these destitute, starving former fisherman,
who can no longer fish thanks to the developed world taking advantage of the lack of a Somali government to illegally fish Somali waters and destroy their fish
stocks, have resorted to capturing and ransoming merchant traffic (often from the exact same countries who fucked their country in the first place). In these
piracy operations, the Somalis have routinely treated prisoners well, going so far as to hire caterers for them. Meanwhile, in a recent "triumph",
the US had snipers assassinate three out of four of the pirates they were negotiating with, leading to several pirate groups to announce they will no longer
treat prisoners so well and may even just kill them.
Are the pirates great guys? Not really. Although the bulk of them are former fishermen, many are soldiers from the aforementioned horrific civil war, which is
where they get many of their weapons and training for same. However, do I have a fuckload more sympathy for the circumstances and lot of destitute starving
Africans than I do for a bunch of spoiled rich white Europeans? Yes. Do I really care that a torture-supporting chickenhawk thinks badly of me for it? No.
I approve of limiting copyright to a certain time past the originator's death. That is not the main purpose of the Pirate Party, though it is part of their
platform. I am capable of agreeing with certain portions of the platform of political parties I dislike.
As a fun fact, for the cost of the war in Iraq (not even including Afghanistan) so far, the United States could have given every man, woman and child in
Somalia over 90,000 dollars.
prisons, and those above them right up to the last President and Vice-President of the United States that authorised all that? Somehow I'll bet you have
words other than "vile" to describe them, despite it being on public record both that all of these things happened and that it was at worst condoned
and far more likely explicitly authorised all the way up to the top.
The Somali pirates do what they do because their country was destroyed by Westerners, and their livelihood taken away by Westerners and Asians. Starvation is
so rampant in Somalia that the country is a byword for it, there isn't even a functional government, 73% of the population lives on less than $2 a day, and
there has been a civil war going on with absolutely horrific levels of brutality for nearly 20 years, for which Western involvement for the last 10 years was
limited to US air strikes, which themselves were only used in an attempt to kill Al Qaeda operatives. In return, these destitute, starving former fisherman,
who can no longer fish thanks to the developed world taking advantage of the lack of a Somali government to illegally fish Somali waters and destroy their fish
stocks, have resorted to capturing and ransoming merchant traffic (often from the exact same countries who fucked their country in the first place). In these
piracy operations, the Somalis have routinely treated prisoners well, going so far as to hire caterers for them. Meanwhile, in a recent "triumph",
the US had snipers assassinate three out of four of the pirates they were negotiating with, leading to several pirate groups to announce they will no longer
treat prisoners so well and may even just kill them.
Are the pirates great guys? Not really. Although the bulk of them are former fishermen, many are soldiers from the aforementioned horrific civil war, which is
where they get many of their weapons and training for same. However, do I have a fuckload more sympathy for the circumstances and lot of destitute starving
Africans than I do for a bunch of spoiled rich white Europeans? Yes. Do I really care that a torture-supporting chickenhawk thinks badly of me for it? No.
I approve of limiting copyright to a certain time past the originator's death. That is not the main purpose of the Pirate Party, though it is part of their
platform. I am capable of agreeing with certain portions of the platform of political parties I dislike.
As a fun fact, for the cost of the war in Iraq (not even including Afghanistan) so far, the United States could have given every man, woman and child in
Somalia over 90,000 dollars.