When I first read about this matter I exclaimed "this is what I'm talking about, it's not always black and white" pounding my fist on the desk, my partner looked at me and said you're thinking way to hard again. To the contrary this really takes very little thought. It only takes desire, the desire to observe every angle of a problem even if it means you may find some blood on your own hands.

We are all familiar with the recent stand off between the U.S. Navy and Somali Pirates where a hostage was saved from his nightmarish ordeal trapped inside a life boat. We agree that what the Pirates did was illegal, innocent lives were endangered and justice was served...but was it? "After the Somali government collapsed in the early 1990's industrial nations and corporations including the West encroached on their sovereign waters and began catching and hauling all the fish they could carry. This went on for years until fish populations of course became depleted. To add insult to injury industrialized nations used Somali waters as nuclear dumping grounds. These activities continued with impunity for years. The ramifications of toxic dumping hit full force with the 2005 tsunami, when leaking barrels were washed ashore, sickening hundred and causing birth defects in newborn infants. Meanwhile, the uncontrolled fishing harvests damaged the economic livelihoods of Somali fishermen and eroded the country's supply of a primary food source. This is when the piracy began."

When the media started going ape $#!+ over piracy should we have expected anything less from a people placed in this position by powers of nations who for all intents and purposes raped them while they were down? Where was the mighty U.S. Navy to defend these people's right to sustenance? Why were Western industrialized nations and corporations dumping toxic waste in Somali waters knowing full well it was illegal and knowing full well the likely hood of contamination? We stood by and did nothing! Something that would have actually mattered in this world and before the eyes of God if you are a believer and we turned our backs. Why? I'll tell you why, because it just didn't effect us ENOUGH! That's why. It wasn't until piracy began to disrupt oil tanker traffic that the U.S. turned it's eye on Somalia like the fiery eye in The Lord of The Rings searching for Frodo. Oh hey they're F'ing around with our oil we need to get these sons a b*tches. Outrageous! We should be ashamed of our selves. Instead of casting Somalia in a light of chaotic evil which only lives to wound civilization for it's own purposes we should openly recognize the problem and fix what we had a hand in destroying.