Modern Day Pirates
...and people wondered why i was so proud to be a Pirate when I first joined the SCA. Most people do not see/belive the other side. It's amazing how history repeats itself, though....
You Are Being Lied to About Pirates
Pirates have never been quite who we think they are. In the "golden age of piracy" - from 1650 to 1730 - the idea of the pirate as ( Read more... )
You Are Being Lied to About Pirates
Pirates have never been quite who we think they are. In the "golden age of piracy" - from 1650 to 1730 - the idea of the pirate as ( Read more... )
How one feels completely depends on which side of the fence that you are sitting on, too. Our side, where we are not going through the atrocities and loss, this is unacceptable loss. However, to the surviving Somali citizens, I'm sure the loss of a few innocent human lives is worth it when balanced against the hundreds of dead Somalian citizens from hunger, radiation poisonting, etc. They want the rape of their waters and death of their people to stop, and this is one of the means that they are going about stoping it. Is it 'right'? that brings us back to that fence again =).
It's easy to stand judgement on items when one is not personally affected by them. It would be much more difficult for me to be objective if it were my child that was born malformed because of nuclear dumping. I am pretty sure I would not take such a passive view.
There is always going to be a 'bad guy'. One persons hero is anothers villian, and vice versa. I believe, and always have, that most pirates became so because of necessity. Most of history supports this claim if one is willing to look beyond the propaganda...and of course, a case can be made for the other side, too =). Their victims are never going to agree, though, so that 3 year old will forever hate pirates while I continue to hold them in great esteem.
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