Pirates...

This whole Pirate thing off the coast of Africa has really been irritating me. I just cannot seem to shake the notion that it is, at least to me, unfathomable for there to be pirates in 2009. I mean...we have satellite imaging, are capable of launching missiles from hundreds of miles away directly to your location, and oh yeah, we have amazing sniper riffles! You can run, but rest assured we WILL find you and blow you up!!! It's 2009 punks...not the 17th century where you could kidnap people, hold them for ransom, release them and run away. YOU CANNOT RUN! This is NOT Pirates of the Caribbean! I just really don't understand people's logic. I guess people think they are smarter or slicker than world governments...FALSE.

I am so glad this stand-off is over. And lol at all of the mentally slow reporters at that news conference I watched on CNN today. I don't know why it was so hard for some of them to realize that the three pirates lives were ended by sniper rifles. And no, the pirates probably weren't in a situation where there was an imminent threat to the hostage's life. Most likely orders were, if you see a pirate, gun him down! I don't understand why this was such a hard concept for reporters to grasp, evidenced by the fact that they kept asking how and why the pirates were shot down...on repeat.

Perhaps, and I'm just venturing a guess here, just maybe my experience as a Black female/person in the US has desensitized me to occurrences of civilian executions by police. Furthermore, the ones I am accustomed to hearing are those where the slain men are carrying a wallet/inhaler/[insert any non-weapon], not freakin' pirates of Africa who are as guilty as sin! I cannot for the life of me figure out how these reporters seem so confused as to how three pirates wound up dead, but look unfazed when minorities around the country are shot down dead for no real reason...

Random aside: I would much rather be a ninja than a pirate!