More on Pirates...

From the article "You Are Being Lied to About Pirates"
by Johann Hari

Good counter-article. Food for thought.

"We don't consider ourselves sea bandits. We consider sea bandits [to be]
those who illegally fish and dump in our seas and dump waste in our seas and
carry weapons in our seas."

"During the revolutionary war in America, George Washington and America's founding fathers paid pirates to protect America's territorial waters, because they had no navy or coastguard of their own. Most Americans supported them. Is this so different?"