[11th_VA]

I'm not making this up:

Defence expert: I have sympathy with pirates

"The 44-year-old, who works in Bromley and south-east London, said: "Desperate people take chances. I do sympathise with people who are that desperate, I mean you've got to show some humanity towards them as well. I think that's pretty important."

http://www.bromleytimes.co.uk/content/bromley/times/news/story.aspx?brand=BMLYTOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsbmlyt&itemid=WeED08%20Apr%202009%2015%3A19%3A39%3A170

[a fool in paradise]

Yes, I saw some talking head on CNN saying how these are poor out of work fishermen.

“They can’t help it.”

Hundreds of years of piracy.

Yep.

Foolish antiAmerican idiots.

[Kansas58]

Just heard on radio, in a Rush break, the Father of one of the Mariners (from Mass) teaches a class on anti pirate tactics, lol!