Somali pirates awesome

[Purkake]

Now that's what you call organized crime.

 

It is a lucrative business that has drawn financiers from the Somali diaspora and other nations -- and now the gangs in Haradheere have set up an exchange to manage their investments.

 

One wealthy former pirate named Mohammed took Reuters around the small facility and said it had proved to be an important way for the pirates to win support from the local community for their operations, despite the dangers involved.

 

"Four months ago, during the monsoon rains, we decided to set up this stock exchange. We started with 15 'maritime companies' and now we are hosting 72. Ten of them have so far been successful at hijacking," Mohammed said.

Piracy investor Sahra Ibrahim, a 22-year-old divorcee, was lined up with others waiting for her cut of a ransom pay-out after one of the gangs freed a Spanish tuna fishing vessel.

 

"I am waiting for my share after I contributed a rocket-propelled grenade for the operation," she said, adding that she got the weapon from her ex-husband in alimony.

 

"I am really happy and lucky. I have made $75,000 in only 38 days since I joined the 'company'."

 

Capitalism!

Edited December 2, 2009 by Purkake

[Kaftan Barlast]

A co-operative is socialism, not capitalism yo.

[Walsingham]

 

I liked your emphasis on the RPG.

 

 

"RPG! Tank! Return on compound interest!"

[Gorgon]

This is the breakthrough the development experts at the world bank have been waiting for.

[jaguars4ever]

 

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[Purkake]

A co-operative is socialism, not capitalism yo.

No mang, it's all about the free market.

 

You're part of the system, mang.

[lord of flies]

It is good to see the oppressed peoples of the world developing through capitalism towards the socialist dream. This sort of cooperative economics will lay the foundations for a genuine socialist economy. I only hope the people of Somalia can see past the Russian and Chinese examples and move towards a better world.

[HoonDing]

Piracy investor Sahra Ibrahim, a 22-year-old divorcee, was lined up with others waiting for her cut of a ransom pay-out after one of the gangs freed a Spanish tuna fishing vessel.

Divorcee? I thought they stoned women instead in those parts.

[lord of flies]

Piracy investor Sahra Ibrahim, a 22-year-old divorcee, was lined up with others waiting for her cut of a ransom pay-out after one of the gangs freed a Spanish tuna fishing vessel.

Divorcee? I thought they stoned women instead in those parts.

Yes, and they run around naked, yelling "Oogabooga" too.

[Rosbjerg]

Piracy investor Sahra Ibrahim, a 22-year-old divorcee, was lined up with others waiting for her cut of a ransom pay-out after one of the gangs freed a Spanish tuna fishing vessel.

Divorcee? I thought they stoned women instead in those parts.

 

Well she *did* have a bazooka.. I wouldn't throw stones at a women with rockets.

[Purkake]

Piracy investor Sahra Ibrahim, a 22-year-old divorcee, was lined up with others waiting for her cut of a ransom pay-out after one of the gangs freed a Spanish tuna fishing vessel.

Divorcee? I thought they stoned women instead in those parts.

Obviously it's an advanced society with free market economy and social equality.

 

Screw China, Africa is the next superpower.

[Meshugger]

Hahahahaha

[jaguars4ever]

Piracy investor Sahra Ibrahim, a 22-year-old divorcee, was lined up with others waiting for her cut of a ransom pay-out after one of the gangs freed a Spanish tuna fishing vessel.

Divorcee? I thought they stoned women instead in those parts.

Yes, and they run around naked, yelling "Oogabooga" too.

Of course she woudn't. Don't be an idiot.

 

Only African men shout "Oogabooga!"

[Meshugger]

Piracy investor Sahra Ibrahim, a 22-year-old divorcee, was lined up with others waiting for her cut of a ransom pay-out after one of the gangs freed a Spanish tuna fishing vessel.

Divorcee? I thought they stoned women instead in those parts.

 

Obviously the pirates or not the Sharia-law-abiding citizens. The wahabbi-nuts are another group of people that are busy pestering the landcrabs.

 

Kind of funny when you think of it, pirates being socially more progressive and all.

[jaguars4ever]

Of course pirates are more socially progressive. Have you never heard of the Pirate Code?

[Purkake]

Of course pirates are more socially progressive. Have you never heard of the Pirate Code?

Par-ley?

 

It would be a fine joke if the piracy helped them stabilize the country and the currency. Maybe IMF should pitch in with some bullets and rockets?

[Guest The Architect]

Of course pirates are more socially progressive. Have you never heard of the Pirate Code?

 

The code is more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules.

[Pidesco]

These pirates are awesome in general and they're just fighting against the Man.

[Lare Kikkeli]

Yeah considering the situation in Somalia and the stuff western nations and corporations have done I can't really blame the Somalis for trying. Looks like they're really trying to improve the living conditions, too.

[Walsingham]

I'm not sure I blame them for trying but if you think this is a Robin Hood scenario then you're mental. You think they're moving millions by themselves? They have to have some serious backing to move their money, and I suspect syndicates in the mideast are giving them tipoffs on sailing times as well as profiteering on market instabilities.

 

Nor do I approve of folks who are assaulting mariners and occasionally killing them.

[lord of flies]

I'm not sure I blame them for trying but if you think this is a Robin Hood scenario then you're mental. You think they're moving millions by themselves? They have to have some serious backing to move their money, and I suspect syndicates in the mideast are giving them tipoffs on sailing times as well as profiteering on market instabilities.

 

Nor do I approve of folks who are assaulting mariners and occasionally killing them.

I have almost complete certainty that the pirates have killed less mariners over their entire existence than the United States has killed civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past month. The pirates are the plucky underdog defending their people.

[Pidesco]

I'm not sure I blame them for trying but if you think this is a Robin Hood scenario then you're mental. You think they're moving millions by themselves? They have to have some serious backing to move their money, and I suspect syndicates in the mideast are giving them tipoffs on sailing times as well as profiteering on market instabilities.

 

Nor do I approve of folks who are assaulting mariners and occasionally killing them.

 

 

These Somali pirates were actually fishermen scraping by in the buttcrack of the world, who found their livelihood compromised by industrial fishing boats using Somalia's undefended coastal waters as a free fishing ride. I'd say this isn't a case of a Robin Hood scenario, but rather a case of free enterprise where a bunch of people with everything against them went out and made business for themselves with whatever meagre resources they had available. It's the romantic American dream, Horn of Africa style. Amazing what can be done with a lot of faith, hardwork, and total disdain for bureaucracy.

[I want teh kotor 3]

lol @ thread except for LoF

 

 

It is good to see the oppressed peoples of the world developing through capitalism towards the socialist dream. This sort of cooperative economics will lay the foundations for a genuine socialist economy. I only hope the people of Somalia can see past the Russian and Chinese examples and move towards a better world.

 

No.

[Syraxis]

An entire town financed by piracy? That's not gonna end well.

[lord of flies]

These Somali pirates were actually fishermen scraping by in the buttcrack of the world, who found their livelihood compromised by industrial fishing boats using Somalia's undefended coastal waters as a free fishing ride. I'd say this isn't a case of a Robin Hood scenario, but rather a case of free enterprise where a bunch of people with everything against them went out and made business for themselves with whatever meagre resources they had available. It's the romantic American dream, Horn of Africa style. Amazing what can be done with a lot of faith, hardwork, and total disdain for bureaucracy.

Also, the western industrialists dumped a ****load of polluted crap into their waters. They're really engaging in completely justified retaliation on the corporations which have ruined their country's shores.