The Pirate Lie...

[lifeonqueen]

An interesting opinion piece from the Independent about Somali Pirates. The comment section is full of the standard trollish bigots as seem to flock to newspaper websites the world over as the last places to tolerate their putrid drivel under the dubious banner of "free speech" (but I digress) and the essay is not sourced nearly as well as it should be (but it does largley jibe with reports from CBC radio and elsewhere). For all that, Johan Haari raises a good point, albeit almost by accident: there is a terrible hypocrisy on the part of Western nations prepared to leave nine million Somalis to starvation and violence but will send in a fleet of warships to protect oil tankers and passenger liners from the criminal enterprises that have arisen in Somalia's ruins.