Blame Jack Sparrow for Somali Pirates
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OK, is it me - or does the media get a hard-on every time they print the word "Pirate"?
And we all share in a collective "Aarrrr..." with a grin and a wink. Cuz we're in on it, right?
Pirates are cool. Pirates are outlaws. Pirates are bad, but hot.
But wait a Buccaneering minute here - now we have these Somali pirates. Ugly as fuck peasants with assault weapons. Where's the romance? Where's the mascara? Where's the box office?
It's just not the same swashbuckling romp as we want, cuz where's the sex? Where's Johnny Fucking Depp?
No. The Somali Pirates are merely your run-of-the mill dollar store terrorists. Thugs with boats. So, let's call a spade a spade (insert liberal kneejerk here) and name them what they are - oppressed and impoverished criminals willing to die to get their hands on some of that good pie everyone else seems to have plenty of...
Are they worth global media coverage? Are they lead story material?
Someone get them a reality show... STAT!
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And where the f*** was our navy when the captain jumped overboard and made an escape, they could have blown away his captors right then, instead, they watched. And watched him be re-captured. rated.
s a terrible situation, that is reflective of the inequities of out current global state. Sorry, but I don't the best answer is to sit around waiting for an socially created God to save him.