Crime Pays for Somali Pirates – by Stephen Brown




















  • Like it is

    I cannot believe how some people have confused being civilized and humane with being fools.

    I know exactly what I'd do if I were in charge. Believe me, no one with a brain in their head would ever even consider thinking about pirating again. The way the civilized world deals with these criminals reminds me of negligent parents who let their offspring do whatever they want with no consequences.

    If you want to bring these third world countries into the reality of the world you teach them not to victimize other people. It's not as if they are distributing the money and building schools and farms, is it? No, they are buying better boats and weapons so they can come after us with better boats and weapons.

    I won't hold my breath waiting for anyone in power in this world to have any common sense about this. No, we'll just keep paying more and more for the things we buy because included in the price will be what has been paid to the pirates.

  • 2maxpower

    appeasement never works . the Dutch government is a disgrace.

  • Jamal

    What a loads of rubbish. Get your facts straight. Pirates have nothing to do with Islamists. Look at the Islamist controlled areas, there are no piracy activities. In fact, they hate each other.

  • 2maxpower

    I disagree with you Jamal.

    normally I do not respond to people who I cannot have a civil discussion but for the opportunity of pointing out to others where you are mistaken.

    firstly you need to understand that these pirates are muslims. (not christians, not buddists, not athiests not jews).

    the Koran and Muhammad's teaching and example permit plundering the infidel. …basically that is piracy. (theft and criminal activity to most people but not muslims following the Koran).

    the Dutch aren't patrolling the Mediterranean and those that are are not as sympathetic to pirates so you don't see a lot of piracy. (never-the-less I expect we will start to see it).

    all pirates aren't mulims or islamist, but the Somali ones are. they have the blessing and protection of their communities (this is another reason you do not see this in other muslim/islamist countries where the governments will not tolerate the attention that piracy would garner).

    if you think that the piracy is something new to islamists you don't need to go far back to see that this is par for the course. the barbary pirates etc.

  • Adheeb

    Steven Brown's statement, “More unsettling, however, is that these weak, ineffective policies on the part of Western countries indicate a moral bankruptcy that could decide the issue of this war.” is an excelent observation. The pathetically weak response of the West toward these people actually contributes to the problem. Not only do we need to pursue these pirates but we need to go after their families and supporter waiting on the beach. We bonbed the hell out of the German civilian population during WWII. These people and their families are no better than they.

  • Adheeb

    Jamal, me thinks you have missed the boat.

  • USMCSniper

    Piracy is illegal… so killing pirates is acceptable… sort of how cops kill robbers…

    If a ship has somalis on it, yes… blow it out of the water. Yes, innocents will die by bombing the ports but perhaps trade will benefit. Also many sailors' lives will be saved.

    Warn any hostile ship not to approach. A friendly ship will let you know… and then shoot the pirates!

  • Isis

    May be Peter Pan can help ?

  • jacob

    SNIPER :

    The stupidity of this Dutch frigate captain is unheard of…

    Would it be that he asked his sjperiors in HOLLAND what to do with these people and was actually ordered to release them and even give them food and fuel for the return trip to their base ??

    Granted :
    In today's stupid thinking and accursed 'PIOLITICAL CORRECTNESS”, to hang them from the highest mast would raise holy hell from all the bleeding-heart idiots loose in this world but, what would have happened if they would have sank the boat with everybody on board, letting them swim for land ??

    Perhaps the fear of somebody on board ratting, as hapened with the pictures on that Iraqi jail would have done whoever gave the order and therefore, this is why we are in the shape we are….

  • BS77

    Whatever happened to gunboat diplomacy? Two heavy destroyers could end this pirate nonsense in about a week….Go in close to shore and destroy every pirate vessel. Destroy every pirate vessel that ventures forth. Destroy their bases and burn their warehouses. End of story. Liberals act like blubbering helpless fools….Oh what can we do oh what can we do?? Send in the Navy and watch the problem disappear. Same with Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan…use the military…use precision guided bombs and missiles…take out the nuclear weapons facilities, wipe out the Al Queda bases and HQs, strike strike strike….put them on the run. But no, the best we can do is hold a circus trial in NY City…idiocy.

  • LindaRivera

    Every ship and boat must be armed with all of the military equipment that the Muslim jihadi pirates have: machine guns, rocket launchers and rockets, etc., under the control of trusted ex military. Why are boats and ships immorally ALLOWED to be defenseless prey? Why are the Muslim jihadi pirates ALLOWED to make fabulous sums of money for global jihad? Western leaders have NEVER shown that they want to win the world war waged against hated non-Muslim infidels. As this is the case, what do our leaders believe their role is? To surrender our countries to global Islamic conquest?

  • SpiritOf1683

    Worse still, he's got rocks for brains, just like the typical Mohammedan troll.

  • trapper

    Not killing pirates is akin to not executing captured non-uniformed combatants. We are guilty of the latter although the rules of warfare call for summary execution. The Dutch treatment of the pirates is not that inconsistent with our practices.

  • LindaRivera


    Crime pays for Somalis in the U.S. – Somali GANGS ATTACK Americans
    This is how Americans are thanked for taking in Somalis. For protection, non-Muslims should walk outside in groups. Is this just? Is this democracy that Americans are forced to live in fear from Somali Muslim immigrants? When people have to live in fear – freedom is DESTROYED. Where are the rights of Americans?

    Police investigate Somali attacks
    Submitted by Sun Journal on Thu, 12/17/2009 – 00:32
    By Mark LaFlamme, Staff Writer






    “It's not gang activity in the traditional sense,” Deputy Chief James Minkowsky said. “We're not seeing the colors or the monikers, but it's still a gang mentality.”









  • Hasz

    You know nothing about what you are talking about and connecting pirates with Al-Q is ill-founded image. Please do your research with open brain. Did we forget about the Tuna wars in the 60s 70's in Ecuador? This is the same pattern repeating itself in differently level.
    Somali piracy (I call them Somali coast guards) has nothing to do with Muslim extremism, and its origin (s) based on self-defense. Western and Asian fishing fleets scrambled Somali fishing industry since the collapse of the Somali central government in 1990, and Somali fishers could not compete these illegal toxic dumpers and fishers. They had to go to the extreme to defend their income and above all, their ocean. To say al-Q have caused this or benefit piracy directly is baseless assertion on the eyes of Somali people (islamically, piracy is forbidden). Talk to Somali before you seat behind a screen and write what you want.

  • Hasz

    the problem is not the Somalis but rather your ships. Keep your ships on your seas and somali pirates will leave you alone. No need to go to somali ocean and then complain to pay the taxe(s). Pay as they ask since you are using their ocean. Somali's have nothing to cry for and if you use all you can they will do the same. Pay the taxe(s) dude!

  • bushlikesdick12

    It's a shame we have tens of thousands of troops standing around in Iraq pissing off Muslims when we could be putting them to better use in Somalia by bringing these pirates to justice.

    Not only is the American's jobs been pimped out by the conservatives they have also deprived our commerce protection due to their hoarding our military resources to meet their own needs and not of our country's interests.

  • TuMadre

    The only thing wrong with the Dead Somali Pirates Club is that the membership is just too low. I got rid of a drug-dealing, woman-beating, aggravated-burglarizing moron, in El Paso, about 15 years ago. Guess what? He no longer robs people at gunpoint, beats women, or sells drugs to high school kids. He's no longer a pain in anyone's ass. He joined the Dead Recidivist Moron Who The Legal System Had Been Unwilling To Deal With Club.

  • GJTryon

    So where's fearless warrior Obama? Wasn't he talking tough last year about cleaning things up? I still look back on the US Navy snipers killing those three despicable Somalis last April as one of the positive highlights of '09, if not the decade. A little action amid all the politics and blather is a like a freshening wind scattering a dense fog.