Western firms profit from Somalia’s piracy problem (after training them to be pirates?)

By Tuesday September 8, 2009

Found by Mark.



12 Comments
  1. deowll says:
    9/8/2009 at 6:07 pm

    As long as piracy is profitable you will have pirates.

    It the world’s navies are two sorry to stop it then the merchant shippers have to go back to supplying their own armed forces as a cost to doing business and the buyer will pay for it.

  2. The Warden says:
    9/8/2009 at 6:09 pm

    Obviously his firm’s training helped but he nor his firm didn’t cause the economic issues of Somalia to make Somali’s pirates. It’s the never ending example of how good things can turn bad when used for the wrong reasons. History is rife with examples.

  3. waltersobchack says:
    9/8/2009 at 6:54 pm

    Kind of how we train and arm people in other countries, only to later invade the same country and kill the same people years later.

    Kind of like Iraq.

  4. drknow says:
    9/9/2009 at 12:12 am

    New link to the video:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OmpYSB5WQY

  5. harold says:
    9/9/2009 at 1:52 am

    We trained and armed the dreaded Taliban who we are now fighting. Oh, the irony of it all!

  6. The DON says:
    9/9/2009 at 2:31 am

    Video taken down, replacement can be found at

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OmpYSB5WQY

    [Thanks. Updated. — ed.]

  7. Rabble Rouser says:
    9/9/2009 at 9:00 am

    We need more pirates if we are to stop global warming.

    http://www.venganza.org/about/open-letter/

  8. highaman says:
    9/9/2009 at 10:54 am

    #8 : That explains it all! No wonder we had one of the coldest summer of the century (in Eastern Canada), piracy is on the rise!

    All hail FSM arr!

  9. Publius says:
    9/9/2009 at 6:05 pm

    Update —

    Western BLOGS profit from Western firms which profit from Somalia’s piracy problem (after training them to be pirates?)


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