Comments on: Calling up a pirate

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:21:37 +0000

Ryan, you can't call everyone who does something violent that you don't support a terrorist - the term becomes meaningless. These people are pirates in the real sense of the word (not the cartoon sense you describe). Pirates commit armed robbery and other violent crimes on the sea for profit. A terrorist is someone who uses violence to create fear in hopes of achieving some ideological goal. That may seem like it's just a semantic difference, but its implications for how to deal with them are huge.

And I agree with the people who said this post gives no real information on how CNN contacted that pirate.

By: Donah

Donah — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:40:32 +0000

Again I am amazed abt the comments to a perfectly legal trade off between CNN and the pirates.... Has anyone ever not paid for a product he/she wants to acquire ???
This is not bribery... it´s bribery in your screwed up mind. So some of the amateur pirates get knocked off.... no big deal... all of Africa is "pirate land" or haven´t you noticed.... Where have you been folks... On the island I´m residing on we get robbed (pirated) by the minute.... We have the "best" poleece force in the world... the Canario Guardia Civil. The do what the Local Municipal Poleece don´t do .... sleep off their prepaid retirement time with attending momma nearby.... Wouldn´t you if you had a filthy job to do ?? So let the Afro pirates do their piracy for profits and let CNN pay for gathering the new you get for "nothing" from the satellite but pay the transporter... I once grabbed a Local Poleeceman´s peashooter and he started to smile at me.... So I noticed it had no magazine and no bullit in it´s chamber.. I terurned the "armour".... I did the same to a Guardia Civil officer and he started howling for mercy, prayed to Mother Mariah and called his mother on the cell. I felt sorry for the freak and returned the fully loaded 9 mm Luger type... after I told him to be nice and don´t ever again bother me because I am Donah, the Navajo, he knows why I live in the big house. Because my wife is (was) Dña Inez... la Holandesa, ´prendo ?? 2 Young kids... boy 10, girl 13... never came home from school. My housekeep put their faces on my door to make sure it is MY door and she takes care of me and the Dña.... The kids are in training to make good members of the community, a "good" living.. with all the other Cubanas, Colombianas, Uruguyanas... and some black "anas" from nearby GoldCoast. Don´t mind the lousy parents... they got money anyway.... Everybody knows.. and their faces stay on my door. Thanx to Mariah...
Donah....!!

By: Robert Satmari

Robert Satmari — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:10:50 +0000

I would like to chat to the pirates also. Can you please send put their telephone numbers up on the internet, so that everyone worldwide can can call and chat to them. It would be so cool if everyone worldwide could simply call them up and annoy them...

Personally, I would like to discuss with them the impact they have on the cost of goods and sea transport, marine insurance, free cross border trade, Somalian tourism and economic development, crime and organized crime, religion, world citizenship, emerging business opportunities in Somalia, politics and marine preservation and fishing and environmental sustainability. Finally, I would like their view on how they feel in the knowledge that they are responsible for intergovernmental cooperation and uniting nations in similar goals to protect shipping and thwart piracy.

By: Annie U.

Annie U. — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:15:04 +0000

This is really really neat! Exactly who job-wise would be in charge of contacting sources and getting information?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:48:18 +0000

Instead of pirate, please start using the more accurate, modern term: terrorist. When they start every sentence with "Aaarrgghh", then you can call them pirates.

By: Jote Totaker

Jote Totaker — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:45:16 +0000

Very interesting reading! Thank you very much for sharing, but I must say I'm curious about the trade secret:-)

By: Jennie-Joy, Southern Sudan

Jennie-Joy, Southern Sudan — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:00:15 +0000

Oooooh! Aaaaah! Bravo! If I weren't already doing a job here in Southern Sudan, I'd be out contacting people for interviews... great work!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:20:19 +0000

Looks like a recession proof job.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:12:06 +0000

Perfect. Pirates attacking other pirates. I hope they kill eachother off! It's all for those white SUVs. How stupid. Don't they know that SUVs are stupid?

By: CapnCrook

CapnCrook — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:05:32 +0000

Wow! Sounds like a decent business, but sorry to hear that they have all that overhead. Still, $3.5 million for a few days work is good money. I'm thinking of heading over there, maybe pirating some ships. The best way to stop the pirates is bring over some Detroit union representatives. By the time they have to pay prevailing wage, holidays, coffee breaks, maternity leave, and disability benefits; it just won't be worth it and the industry will collapse!