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9th April 2009, 09:50
The US Secretary of State has urged the world to act to end the "scourge" of piracy. How can pirates be defeated?

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Dimentio
9th April 2009, 09:57
The US Secretary of State has urged the world to act to end the "scourge" of piracy. How can pirates be defeated?

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Unleash the Kraken upon them!

http://vulcanstev.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/potcjackkraken.jpg

On a serious note. Pompeius defeated piracy in the first century BC by offering pirates jobs and farms.
southernmissfan
9th April 2009, 10:15
On a serious note. Pompeius defeated piracy in the first century BC by offering pirates jobs and farms.

That's pretty much it. I mean honestly, if you live in Somalia, is there really a better option than being a pirate? I mean yes, obviously it's very risky, but hell day to day life is risky in Somalia. If you do manage to survive the day to day violence, then what? You get to starve to death? Or maybe you'll get lucky and spend the rest of your short life in horrible poverty, horrible living conditions and utter misery. Wow, life is full of choices for the average Somali!
NecroCommie
9th April 2009, 10:17
Why would we want to defeat piracy? After all, when you pay for your music you are buying capitalism!
ZeroNowhere
9th April 2009, 10:23
Why would we want to defeat piracy? After all, when you pay for your music you are buying capitalism!
Be careful (http://www.revleft.com/vb/piracy-t104053/index.html).


That's pretty much it. I mean honestly, if you live in Somalia, is there really a better option than being a pirate? I mean yes, obviously it's very risky, but hell day to day life is risky in Somalia. If you do manage to survive the day to day violence, then what? You get to starve to death? Or maybe you'll get lucky and spend the rest of your short life in horrible poverty, horrible living conditions and utter misery. Wow, life is full of choices for the average Somali!
Obvious, but nobody seems to notice, because the pirates are all evil or something. At least, that's what reactions here were like.
NecroCommie
9th April 2009, 10:46
Well, to clear things out that was a joke. I know most of you realized but some may have not.
MikeSC
9th April 2009, 12:07
It was on Newsnight a while ago, where a reporter got in with a group of pirates. They're people who used to farm, until some dictator or other sold the land they occupied to Shell or Exxon or some dickhead company, who forced them off the land so that their oil pipes wouldn't wouldn't be inconvenienced.
Dimentio
9th April 2009, 12:36
The piracy in Somalia is a consequence of a failed society which forces honest fishermen to raid international trade ships. I sympathise with these men.

What needs to be done foremost is to restore some form of government in Somalia.
Lord Testicles
9th April 2009, 12:43
Are we being lied to about pirates (http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-you-are-being-lied-to-about-pirates-1225817.html)?