Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Somalia pirates just making a statement "Back off".

Just like the rest of the world, you are probably thinking that the Somalia pirates are good for nothings, who are taking the easy way out, stealing peoples ‘gold’ like that. We have been punked. In all of this we have forgotten to ask why these people would do something so ancient like piracy, maybe like me you thought they do this just for the kick, or to fulfil childhood dreams of being ‘Captain eye patch’.
To be a pirate in Somalia is seen as an honour, something like the men used to feel in Britain when they went to war. They protect their waters from ‘predators’, who illegally fish there for profits, damage the Somalis economy and don’t pay. Somalia is one of the few countries that would not be considered a state, that do not have a government running things, this means that there are no laws hence there is no way of protecting the waters along their coast. European and Asian countries are seeing this as an opportunity to make huge profits (millions) by stealing the countries food supply through the pervasive illegal rummage of fish, lobster, and many other types of seafood.
Somalis pirates don’t do what they do to fulfil childhood dreams of being pirates; wearing eye patches and having hooks as hands. The world has not been made aware of the fact that there is a valid reason for the Somalis pirates doing what they do; the country is already living below the breadline, one in four girls actually attend school. Unless somebody in the country does something about the fact that countries are taking from their coast and not giving them compensation, the pirates will make sure that illegal poaching of their resources is kept to the minimum. The key to this is about survival trying to maintain that the country does not go worse of that it already is.

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