Pirates

I have had several discussions about piracy around the Somalian seas with people in the UK. Most of them, unsurprisingly, detest piracy and think that they should be dealt with as soon as possible to ensure freedom in the high seas. This of course is easy to say while living in the UK, getting paid a nice hefty pay-check. The additional benefit of course is that if you want fish, you just go the the supermarket, where it will always be available.

The question is where does the fish come from? Multinationals are useful in bringing the world together. In making sure that you get whatever you want, whenever you want, wherever you want - as long as you can pay for it. Unfortunately this is all jolly if you live in a thriving economy which is better than most countries. These countries are in a better state because they can mooch off resources from other countries. What if you come from a poor country and your only way of survival was fishing and one fine day a massive trawler comes across and takes more fish in a day that you take in a year. What would you do? Send a petition over youtube to your MP,demonstrate or worse strike? And what if all this fails because your MP gets paid off by the rich companies and he does not have to listen to you?

Would you take arms and try and make just what you think is wrong? Read this interview.

This post in no way condones violence, but it definitely does not agree with the fact that people who take up violence as a last resort are primitive beings who do not know the ways of the civilised world. The western world really needs to understand this. Sharing and caring is not only necessary but also useful.