Somali pirates... pwned.

[Stewart]

kill all the pirates, they're only there for personal gain, they attack private sailboats, only to capture or kidnap for ransom. they don't care about the cargo or fishing/dumpers, just the insurance company money. shoot back at these pirates, it's long over due. happy hunting and wipe them out.

[FiReSTaRT]

kill all the pirates, they're only there for personal gain, they attack private sailboats, only to capture or kidnap for ransom. they don't care about the cargo or fishing/dumpers, just the insurance company money. shoot back at these pirates, it's long over due. happy hunting and wipe them out.

Ok, and who's left to keep the poachers and mafia in check? The country doesn't have an army. The majority of the UN Security Council profits from both the poaching and the dumping, so UN won't do it. Somalia doesn't have any oil so don't expect for a "coalition of the willing" to step in and "fight for freedom and democracy."

I'll give you this much - The armada that's down there should protect the ships from the pirates, but they should stop guarding the poachers/dumpers and start bagging and tagging them instead. Win-win situation for everybody but:

1) The pirates that are only in it for the money (think about it.. if the armada puts a stop to poaching/dumping, the pirates won't be able to say "we're just poor fishermen protecting our coast - those that were will go back to fishing and the rest will either get sunk, jailed or move back to the mainland)
2) The poachers
3) Cosa Nostra
4) Politicians greased by #2 and #3
5) Mercenaries ("security consultants")
6) The insurance industry

[Stewart]

your looking at this too hard, history repetes it's self, why do these fishermen have guns? and they don't buy food instead of bullets.

[backmarkerducati]

Funny how the "pirates" rarely ever attack these illegal fishing boats and Mafia dumping ship, why... because they have been paid not to before hand.

In short, because the pirates are in the pocket's of the... fill in the blanks.

I have never understood why what happens in this video is not the norm, it should be.

[crankcall]

easy arithmetic, fish out of your wooden barge and make $1,500 a year, highjack one euro owned freighter, collect $2 million ransom. Its a business model in a part of the world with no gov't and no military outside of foreign intervention.

They have intercepted and ransomed several dozen private sailboats in the past three years and killed a few transiting sailors to the point that the last VOR, a global yacht race with stopovers on every continent moved the race out of the region because of the threat of kidnappings.
This has nothing to do with fish poaching. Its pretty naive to think otherwise.

[FiReSTaRT]

Funny how the "pirates" rarely ever attack these illegal fishing boats and Mafia dumping ship, why... because they have been paid not to before hand

They expanded their fleet with quite a few of those poaching vessels, even used the crews to operate them. That's when the mafia also saw what was up and started dumping their toxic waste in the Mediterranean. Only then did a few arrests happen

[Stewart]

why are you so pro pirate? i bet you would do it right here a home on lake ontario, if you could get away with it.

[FiReSTaRT]

why are you so pro pirate? i bet you would do it right here a home on lake ontario, if you could get away with it.

I'm not generally pro-pirate and believe in earning what's mine, but in this case they're the only thing preventing a much greater evil that nobody else has an interest in preventing. With them out there, a few people die, a few billionaires lose a few bucks. Without them out there, thousands starve, more thousands get poisoned. Unlike the rest of the posters in this thread, I don't value African lives any less than European lives. There are two sides to this story but everybody's being fed the same crap by the mass media and only focusing on one. If the participating nations dedicated only one tenth of their current armada to fighting poachers and polluters, there wouldn't have been any pirates over there in the first place.

[FiReSTaRT]

your looking at this too hard, history repetes it's self, why do these fishermen have guns? and they don't buy food instead of bullets.

And how will they make money to buy food if their waters are all fished out and polluted? And has any one of you people who posted in this thread expressed even a small shred of indignation about what the poachers and the mafia are doing?

[FullMotoJacket]

warning shots = wasted bullets.

[klr_guy]

warning shots = wasted bullets.

They certainly didn't waste many. "fire a warning shot" = shred the ****ers