I’m from Western Washington, and that mountain in that picture is Mount Rainier. Just to let you know.

Kidnapping is kidnapping, and it is inherent in piracy. While the pirates may be economically desperate criminals, they are still criminals putting lives at risk and terrorizing working class ship crews who are just trying to make a living.

While I am sympathetic to their economic hardships, I do not condone the crimes they are committing anymore than those of the scammers in Nigeria who use mail and internet fraud to dupe people out of their hard-earned money.

Good to know we have our trillion dollar military over there, protecting us.

” It is theft to take oil out of the ground”

That might be the stupidest thing I have read in this forum in a very long time, and that’s saying a lot.

Blackspeare says it all. Isn’t it funny, that when an oil tanker gets jacked it suddenly becomes serious.God bless those pesky pirates who are stealing, no confiscating from the robber barons and helping out their own poor.

In closing, I hope they run rings around the western forces sent to stop them. Especially the Indian Navy that didn’t sink a Somali mother ship, but a Thai trawler. Isn’t life great!

Why doesn’t the UN police the US and lock up the billionaire thieves and criminal politicians here?  I highly support these pirates, people living in impoverished countries that are getting more and more unstable because of the oil pollution, the IMF and world bank. It is theft to take oil out of the ground; it is theft to take away a natural water source, bottle and sell it; it is theft to horde wealth in the hands of the few. 

Oil is theft, and I’m glad these ships have been stolen.

Remember these aren’t the Barbary pirates who plundered ships for the goods, sunk the ships, and sold the captives into slavery when no ransom was or couldn’t be paid.  These are modern day pirates who are solely out for ransom from the ship owners.  All captives are treated quite well perhaps probably better than they get from their employers and while in captivity are still on the clock.  And all the Somali pirates are true to their word, once the ransom is paid the ship and all personnel are returned undamaged and unharmed respectively.  How many people were harmed by the pirates from Enron??!!

It is about time that the U.N. or someone, a joint coalition perhaps of regional states start doing something regarding this. It just seems to be getting worse and more and more frequent.

This pirate issue is something that shouldn’t just be shoved the the wayside. It needs to be stopped.

Why there’s pirates all around us!  They’re on Wall Street, they’re in the banks, they’re in the insurance giants, and in Detroit.  However, the only pirate business that is doing well and is on a growth curve is the one in Somalia——maybe they should go public!!