“The shares are open to all and everybody can take part, whether personally at sea or on land by providing cash, weapons or useful materials … we’ve made piracy a community activity.”
You know that tired old saying, “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em?”
Somalia’s Western-backed government of President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed is pinned down battling hard-line Islamist rebels, and controls little more than a few streets of the capital.
The administration has no influence in Haradheere — where a senior local official said piracy paid for almost everything.
“Piracy-related business has become the main profitable economic activity in our area and as locals we depend on their output,” said Mohamed Adam, the town’s deputy security officer.
“The district gets a percentage of every ransom from ships that have been released, and that goes on public infrastructure, including our hospital and our public schools.”
Shit man, maybe California needs to step up and pay attention? I mean, we’re fucking broke, so broke we almost went stateless. Think I’m joking?
One more interesting tidbit to throw in about school spending and criminals:
Maybe instead of taxing our students because we’re going broke paying for our criminals…. maybe we should put them to use like the Somali’s have?
Mind you, that’s probably a terrible idea, but… I mean, if we’re actually trying to figure out how to de-state-ify our state….
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