The Evil Solution

garbage is right most of these guys have more brains than and skills than the average american. That said, the average american could never do what these people are FORCED to do. I do not condone it nor do i agree with it, but that being said they revert to violence because there is no chance for improvement in their lives because their society is in disaray. We need to concentrate more on helping and educating people than trying to blow them up and put them away in a cell forever.

garbageUniversal...

What the hell did you just write? Uneducated because he is a fisherman? Are you kidding me? There are damn smart people out there even at very low levels of society. The problem is they're not given a chance to succeed. They are often dimissed as troublemakers, unrefined, etc...This is the same thing that the pirate leader is arguing about. What is 'uneducated' anyways? Could you do what he is doing to survive? I doubt it...It takes a lot of skills to be a pirate: leadership, fishing, swimming, artillery, etc...It's pathetic that you dismiss him as uneducated because he is a fisherman. It doesn't take a genius to know what is going on in one's country.

I see one solution to this: what they need to do is make a deal with the top pirate leaders to patrol the sea for them. I can definitely understand the pirates though because here you have vessells carrying millions of dollars worth of goods, but they're starving to death. I would do the same thing too. It's called survival.

hmmm an american news site reporting Somalians consider Americans to be friendly (probably FOX is unbiased too).

I think the reporter fabricated parts of the interview (or even the whole thing). The person being interviewed was a fisherman (I am guessing uneducated) before he became a pirate and suddenly he rises to the top of the pirate community thing and he understands the political scenario of the country well enough to make impressive sounding comments??

Violence is never the solution to lasting peace and what the pirates are doing is wrong but then "right" always rests with the majority. If a person is starving to death and he steals a piece of bread who is going to say that is wrong? Technically it is wrong but if the world was that strict then there would be no humanity left only law abiding robots. Even teasing your friend might be wrong in some way.

But this does not mean be lenient with the pirates. Of course they should be stopped but what we should realize (as many people have already commented) is that these people have been wronged and the cause for piracy should be removed. If you wear shorts in the winter then you should expect to get a cold. You cannot hope to get rid of your cold if you continue to wear shorts and take some medicine for the cold.

So address the root cause else the problem is unlikely to go away.

hmmm an american news site reporting Somalians consider Americans to be friendly (probably FOX is unbiased too).

I think the reporter fabricated parts of the interview (or even the whole thing). The person being interviewed was a fisherman (I am guessing uneducated) before he became a pirate and suddenly he rises to the top of the pirate community thing and he understands the political scenario of the country well enough to make impressive sounding comments??

Violence is never the solution to lasting peace and what the pirates are doing is wrong but then "right" always rests with the majority. If a person is starving to death and he steals a piece of bread who is going to say that is wrong? Technically it is wrong but if the world was that strict then there would be no humanity left only law abiding robots. Even teasing your friend might be wrong in some way.

But this does not mean be lenient with the pirates. Of course they should be stopped but what we should realize (as many people have already commented) is that these people have been wronged and the cause for piracy should be removed. If you wear shorts in the winter then you should expect to get a cold. You cannot hope to get rid of your cold if you continue to wear shorts and take some medicine for the cold.

So address the root cause else the problem is unlikely to go away.

When I first heard that the Somali fisherman had turned to piracy because their fishing had been destroyed by foreign fisherman poaching in their waters, I thought, "Well that's fair". Those major powers who do not control their own nationals and others who turned a blind eye to their acts are the first ones to be blamed....and as such should be named! Let's be open and clear about the root cause and hold those nations responsible.

well atleast i am somali and i know the fact....the pirate has spoken and he said piracy wil never end unless there is strong gov in somalia...somalia had never pirate's but now every young guy is dreaming to become one....and even most of the girls wanna marry pirate;s....well i would advise the french to stay away somali waters coz i am somali and i know what he is talking about....remember somali's are masters of revenge and one way or other they wil get french nationals and let us see what would happen to them.
during siad barre ragime there was no piracy and after 16 years of civil war there was no pirecy after abdulahi yusuf there is piracy and all the piracy only happen in puntland!!!!what a joke.
abdulahi yusuf should resign and there should be powerfull somali gov so that they can protect this toxic dump in our sea.
and restore peace in somalia.
al shabab and the police(thugs)of hassan qeybdid wil not be part of the peace deal. they are evil and un human.
the copy are better and shikh sharif team.
but somali youth could make the diffrent they should unite and hunt down thoese old men who don't know any thing about politics.

seems to me that they have an intention; which is to restore or empower a government that gives their peploe opportunity & jobs...this part does not sound unreasonable to me. In fact, it sounds like a right...injustice begets injustice. How do we as a nation here & abroad provide viable solutions. I dare say that if the shoe was on the other foot..what would you do??? i would be hard pressed to say that i would not consider alternatives to be heard..they are doing their best to be heard...how can we solve this??? Rich must share with the poor..we all know in our hearts that this could happen to any country....we are all one. What hurts one country hurts us all. There just has to be a better way to address this....

That's what Asian Countries are doing to the world. If rich countries continue to do what the are doing this world is going to turn to a mess like that...

devil is those fishinf somali sea

the evil action is those fishing the sea of somalia, dropping worst material, supporting criminal gangs of warlords in somalia,, those are - usa , eu , and tegria regime,, somalia is for somalian,, they will fight till being defeated ,, invaders and those supports

Doing Evil as a means to reach your goal regardless of possible disembowelment of the ecosystems, culture, saftey of the nation requires equal reaction of evil. I personally believe that once a group of organized persons accept and perform these activities as norms then they are terrorist. I highly doubt that if this man has the opportunity to become a middle class Somallian citizen with an ok income from employment that he would swap. I would employ the same type of terrorist management tactics that the Israeli anti terrorist units employ. Punnish the entire family and gene poole of each identified terrorist by removing the wife, Brother, Son, Daughter, niece, nephew, mother, father etc... confiscate all family property and funds un til either the terrorist is killed or the family surrenders the terrorist for prosecution and sentencing.

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Hijacking is symptom of the problem being perpetrated by the fishing vessels that are depriving the poor Somalis of their sovereign rights. But the major problem is the thinking that the Somali problem is not their concern. The international community must wake up and face the problem squarely and not leave to Ethiopians who are fighting to avoid attention to their local problems.

Witty Banter:
Awesome post!

But,
I wouldn't assume $$oldier is one of ours just because he says he is. He talks more like an Arian extremist than a soldier. Taking time to (try) sound intelligent but using words incorrectly when trying to convey his thoughts... Kinda trademark.

-captain

a money scam =it makes the world go round
pirates indeed