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Pirates at it again
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Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
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Originally posted by threaded View PostSo when poor, dark skinned, people steal, summary execution is OK, yet when rich white bankers do it, we ask them if they wouldn't like some more?
Everyone knows that most bankers are a bunch of lowlife parasites...but you seem to feel that the fact that bankers fall into that category gives people the right to go around kidnapping people who have NOTHING to do with the banking sector.
So when someone rapes a girl, it is perfectly understandable and we shouldn't be angry and take action because someone else has done it in similar circumstances? That is your logic.
I suggest you get a life.Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? - EpicurusComment
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These 'pirates' call themselves the 'Volunteer Coast Guard of Somalia' and say they are there to prevent over-fishing, the dumping of toxic, even nuclear waste, and to tax and collect fines from those boats doing so.
What do western countries do if a boat is caught fishing illegally, or dumping waste: they arrest the crew and impound the boat until the fines are paid.Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostOne man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
If you go back you had the north controlled by the UK and the south by the French. The French built it up and invested. The UK did everything but invest in their colonial adventure. Guernica was trivial in comparison to what was waged on northern Somalia. Result: massive disparity between north and south, and then the two parts were given independence and joined together. A better recipe for a long running civil war couldn't be imagined.
Now there are now groups trying to bring back the rule of law, and because the western money-men don't like it, they're labelled 'pirates'.Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
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Originally posted by threaded View PostThese 'pirates' call themselves the 'Volunteer Coast Guard of Somalia' and say they are there to prevent over-fishing, the dumping of toxic, even nuclear waste, and to tax and collect fines from those boats doing so.Originally posted by threaded View PostNow there are now groups trying to bring back the rule of law, and because the western money-men don't like it, they're labelled 'pirates'.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7650415.stm
"They wed the most beautiful girls; they are building big houses; they have new cars; new guns"
Not the sort of pirates the FSM would approve of.Last edited by gingerjedi; 13 April 2009, 17:21.Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave JohnsonComment
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Originally posted by threaded View PostWell, I feel sad for the pirates and their families. They were only trying to make a living after all.
No-one ever considers evil henchmen and their familiesComment
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Originally posted by lightng View PostNo-one ever considers evil henchmen and their families
It's poor country where $2k would go a very long way, but they ask for millions - it's totally taking the piss and this is done to finance their movement, namely buy more guns from China.Comment
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I wonder how long it will be before shipping lanes through this region are reduced to an easily patrolable corridor and/or ships travel in escorted convoy...Comment
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I watched the Pirates lose 2-1 yesterday. Serves 'em right is what I say.
They are also called The Gas.Comment
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