Unrein
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8 pages of circle-jerking...
I read through every one's response on the other pirate thread, and unsurprisingly not one persons exhibits any real understanding of the situation and where it's all stemming from.
Now, first thing is first, I am NOT saying that the pirates were justified, or didn't deserve punishment.
Here is a brief history lesson. In the early 1990's, Italian and Swiss companies were paid by their governments to dump nuclear waste on the shores of Somalia. There were no pirates back then. Somalia brought this issue up with the UN, who very promptly ignored them. Additionally, western and Asian companies have been poaching fish off the shores of Somalia. In fact, for every $100 million dollars Somali pirates are stealing in loot, $300 million dollars in fish is being taken illegally from their shores.
Put yourself in their situation for a second. You're a fisherman. You live under a dictatorship that literally made it illegal to stand in groups of 5 or more. You're impoverished, and a civil war is breaking out. Western companies are polluting your waters, and stealing millions of dollars of fish from your country. You went to the UN for help, they ignored you. What choices do you have?
Now, this is my biggest issue with this whole ordeal. It's this dumb f~ck ethnocentric, ignorant attitude everyone here (in the US) is taking up. The media is only telling us part of the story. Instead of offering solemn and regret that those pirates, who were human beings for f*cks sake, were put under the amount of stress and desperation that they needed to hold a merchant vessel hostage, instead we are brainlessly celebrating imperialism and death, with this self-righteous c*ck waving, flag-humping tribalism.
And some douche bag (not from this site but from an article I read) had the GULL to say that the Lord intervened and saved this a**holes life, are you kidding me? Jesus doesn't give a sh*t about the culture of victimization and imperialism being wreathed upon third world countries, he doesn't care that thousands of people are starving to death while the biggest epidemic here in the US is f*cking OBESITY, no, Jesus is only concerned with some jerk-off American merchant ship captain, that's where his priorities lie. Well thank the LORD he lived, all is right in the world and now we can go back to sitting on our fat asses, watching American idol and jerking off to anime porn on the internet. Thank god someone already took the initiative to make sacrifices to secure our freedom FOR US, god forbid we make the same effort to help someone else.
Instead of working to understand the issue and help Somalia get on it's feet, we are pushing them even further away. Do you people realize that all we did is simply MARTYR them? Do you at least understand THAT?
I read through every one's response on the other pirate thread, and unsurprisingly not one persons exhibits any real understanding of the situation and where it's all stemming from.
Now, first thing is first, I am NOT saying that the pirates were justified, or didn't deserve punishment.
Here is a brief history lesson. In the early 1990's, Italian and Swiss companies were paid by their governments to dump nuclear waste on the shores of Somalia. There were no pirates back then. Somalia brought this issue up with the UN, who very promptly ignored them. Additionally, western and Asian companies have been poaching fish off the shores of Somalia. In fact, for every $100 million dollars Somali pirates are stealing in loot, $300 million dollars in fish is being taken illegally from their shores.
Put yourself in their situation for a second. You're a fisherman. You live under a dictatorship that literally made it illegal to stand in groups of 5 or more. You're impoverished, and a civil war is breaking out. Western companies are polluting your waters, and stealing millions of dollars of fish from your country. You went to the UN for help, they ignored you. What choices do you have?
Now, this is my biggest issue with this whole ordeal. It's this dumb f~ck ethnocentric, ignorant attitude everyone here (in the US) is taking up. The media is only telling us part of the story. Instead of offering solemn and regret that those pirates, who were human beings for f*cks sake, were put under the amount of stress and desperation that they needed to hold a merchant vessel hostage, instead we are brainlessly celebrating imperialism and death, with this self-righteous c*ck waving, flag-humping tribalism.
And some douche bag (not from this site but from an article I read) had the GULL to say that the Lord intervened and saved this a**holes life, are you kidding me? Jesus doesn't give a sh*t about the culture of victimization and imperialism being wreathed upon third world countries, he doesn't care that thousands of people are starving to death while the biggest epidemic here in the US is f*cking OBESITY, no, Jesus is only concerned with some jerk-off American merchant ship captain, that's where his priorities lie. Well thank the LORD he lived, all is right in the world and now we can go back to sitting on our fat asses, watching American idol and jerking off to anime porn on the internet. Thank god someone already took the initiative to make sacrifices to secure our freedom FOR US, god forbid we make the same effort to help someone else.
Instead of working to understand the issue and help Somalia get on it's feet, we are pushing them even further away. Do you people realize that all we did is simply MARTYR them? Do you at least understand THAT?
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