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balantz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-09-09 02:23 AM Original message |
Putting Today's 'Pirate' Attack in Context - Scahill |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-09-09 02:40 AM Response to Original message |
1. Sorry, no sympathy here for those criminals. |
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Democracyinkind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-09-09 03:10 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. I totally have no sympathy for the criminals who made the somali coast a wasteland. |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-09-09 03:23 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Oh I see, this is just to satisfy curiosity. |
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Democracyinkind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-09-09 03:34 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. It is rationalizing. As in: what rational grounds are there for a peasant population to fall into |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-09-09 04:16 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Bullshit. |
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frylock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-09-09 12:18 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. judge, jury, executioner |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 07:57 AM Response to Reply #10 |
14. Moe, Larry, Curly. |
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frylock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 10:18 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. manny, moe, and jack |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:29 AM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom! |
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frylock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 12:19 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. one banana, two banana, three banana, four.. |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 01:20 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. I concede. |
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lazer47 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-09-09 04:49 AM Response to Original message |
6. Waving my Bullshit flag,, It is about money,, nothing more,nothing less |
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Democracyinkind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-09-09 05:27 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. You must know. Can't wait to read YOUR article on it. |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-09-09 07:13 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. So, would you agree that "blowing them out of the water on sight" would be an over-reaction? |
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Democracyinkind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-09-09 09:31 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. And we most surely don't do it to the criminals who poisoned the somali coast. |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 07:56 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. You are overreacting. |
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mbperrin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 10:44 AM Response to Reply #8 |
17. I would certainly support blowing financial criminals to hell in a very |
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ima_sinnic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-09-09 06:18 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. so robbing the Somalians of their resources did NOT occur, and IS NOT occurring? do tell! |
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balantz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-09-09 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
12. Good background on U.S. involvement in Somalia from Counterpunch. |
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mbperrin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 10:41 AM Response to Original message |
16. Hmmm...wonder why the folks in Appalachia never turned to piracy? |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 12:17 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. Now there's an idea! |
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wisteria (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 12:06 PM Response to Original message |
19. There are many underlying ecconomic issues in Somalia, but hyjacking ships at gun point is criminal |
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skepticscott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
23. These pirates have the attention |
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balantz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 11:55 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Maybe it's not the abused peasants who are getting this attention.. |
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