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Aneirin -> RE: paying ransoms to pirates (11/22/2009 3:44:03 PM)
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ORIGINAL: hlen5
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ORIGINAL: Aylee
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ORIGINAL: hlen5
Popeye I never said we (the US) should give them anything. I restate - We (the US) are not responsible for the world.
I think "blowing them out of the water" saves the ship that kills them but there will be more pirates after that. Why not look to the root cause for why people with money can hire them to be thugs??
People who believe in Capitalism think the market can solve everything. Why not create a business that hires people for a decent wage and makes a profit at the same time??
While it is true that the place is such a shambles that piracy IS lucrative, however, they DO have the choice to invest their energy into infrastructure development as opposed to becoming robbers, brigands, and murderers. This of course is a long term solution.
Yet because they have choosen the short term solution of becoming robbers, brigands, and murderers, they should die.
The pirates in the boat don't own the boat. Go after the money-men behind the piracy through the courts, create an infrastructure (hopefully at a profit for the financiers of legitimate business) that creates jobs that people can actually live on. Everybody wins.
Sometimes short term is all one has to go on. If your family is hungry and desperate enough, you would steal, rob and extort, too.
I disagree with that idea, it is akin to the thought to go after big drug barons, rather than the small fry dealer on the street. Make life very hard for the barons and big money behind piracy, (if indeed there is big money behind it), by getting them on the front line first, and keep getting them. That way people, the common or garden desperate crook gets the idea that doing someone elses bidding for whatever rewards is just not worth it. I mean mr pirate could be promised rich rewards for attacking shipping, go out on his first mission and die, the more of these people that either get captured, or blasted out of the water, the less likely others will follow in their footsteps, that way whoever is behind this has difficulties because he can't buy the manpower.
If the stance is taken to go after mr big, whilst that is happening, off trundles the small fry to attack shipping, if mr big is taken down, another will step in their place, life continues with the piracy as it does with any other crime. The only solution, is to tackle the crime at the level it is committed.
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