Somalia Piracy Began in Response to Illegal Fishing and Toxic Dumping

From Democracy Now April 14, 2009.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Amy
• Goodman
• Somalia
• Pirates
• Illegal
• Fishing
• Toxic
• Dumping

[upabittoolate]

heath, i love your posts & i respect you a great deal. but i gotta say, this sounds like reationary spin to me. i undersatnd that this is designed to inform but it definitely has a bit of "validating" piracy in its tone. i'm as radical as they get but beware of some wingnut who might echo what i'm saying.

peace

[heathr456]

This does not validate the piracy. It does however explain some of the reasons for it. If we don't look at the root causes behind these things I don't see how we solve the problems. Poor desperate people do desperate things in response.

[pacificspotted]

great.

first britain rapes her, then italy dumps toxic shit all over her coast.

well done the west, another triumph....

[KSFiske]

upabittoolate: this isn't the only place I've been reading about this; in fact, the UK Independent seemed to have broken the story on this just over the weekend. I would take this seriously.

[fuckednuts]

@coverchenko evil begets evil, so what ought we to do about?

[fuckednuts]

@batse1 true, but I would imagine this has something to do with baser instincts of survival and to get the attention of the world. Halting commercial traffic certainly gotten the world's undivided attention, not a good attention but it is an attention nonetheless.

[fuckednuts]

@mrgetsoff83 it is called greed. money over humanity. Then possibly the Somalia f--- up during GHWB era, payback for the BS that happened over there but then again it is only speculation. Either ways wrong is wrong right is right.

[mrgetsoff83]

they killed the fish, fish with kids

[mrgetsoff83]

thanks for dumping that, whoever is doin this is straight up with Satan....basterds! ya know theres kids over there...families flesh & bone, like us.

[finisha99]

none knows y piracy started its because other countrys dump toxic waste there and take our fish some people got illness that theres no medicne 4 so fuck the rest of the countrys that do that

[mrgetsoff83]

all u people care about is money....i hope they steal everything from u fucks who go into somali waters ok? u got it i hope they take everything for the fishermen have no living now fucker....the fish are dead or sick and i found out that u cant e ver swim! in some parts, fuck u!!

[Eye0fTheStorm]

Sue her.

The other 99% of mass media are puppets kissing the governments ass and regurgitating state propaganda as journalism

[batse1]

legitimacy to piracy no, everybody understands that! These fleets are breaking international law. You have european companies sailing under belize, honduras, so they can avoid EU-regulation. Japanese, saudi, yemeni and koreans fleets are using the chaos in Somalia to their advantage. The only side we have to take is that of the truth. We Africans don't want to take hostages. Those who do are criminals! But we can not sit idle while we are being robbed either.