Johann Hari over the the ultra-liberal Huffington Post certainly doesn’t lay low when it comes to his biased opinions masquerading as objective fact. Anytime we bring out the guns you can count on the left wing to try rewrite history as it happens. Earlier this year he wrote this:
You Are Being Lied to About Pirates
Who imagined that in 2009, the world’s governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy – backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from the US to China – is sailing into Somalian waters..
He claims that ever since the fall of the Somali government, mysterious European ships have been dumping nuclear waste off the Somali coast. He also said, ” after the 2005 tsunami, hundreds of the dumped and leaking barrels washed up on shore.” Had he checked, the waste was dumped in the war-racked country during the early 1990s, not at sea. Further, this was done under contract with Somalia. These contracts were signed by representatives of the then Somali President, Ali Mahdi Mohamed.
In writing about pirates, Hari begins to wax eloquent.
Pirates were the first people to rebel against this world. They mutinied against their tyrannical captains – and created a different way of working on the seas. Once they had a ship, the pirates elected their captains, and made all their decisions collectively. They shared their bounty out in what Rediker calls “one of the most egalitarian plans for the disposition of resources to be found anywhere in the eighteenth century.” They even took in escaped African slaves and lived with them as equals. The pirates showed “quite clearly – and subversively – that ships did not have to be run in the brutal and oppressive ways of the merchant service and the Royal navy.” This is why they were popular, despite being unproductive thieves.
He states that foreign countries have moved in and destroyed their fishing. According to Hari, there’s over 2000 miles of coastline. It would take a hell of a lot of “illegal trawlers” to cover that territory, but the fact is yes, foreign countries have moved in to take fish illegally.
But his really outrageous claim is the following:
Did we expect starving Somalians to stand passively on their beaches, paddling in our nuclear waste, and watch us snatch their fish to eat in restaurants in London and Paris and Rome? We didn’t act on those crimes – but when some of the fishermen responded by disrupting the transit-corridor for 20 percent of the world’s oil supply, we begin to shriek about “evil.” If we really want to deal with piracy, we need to stop its root cause – our crimes – before we send in the gun-boats to root out Somalia’s criminals.
Hmmm… paddling in nuclear waste AND fishing. And who is us? Apparently the Brits and the Italians.
The Somali pirates have now taken a U.S. citizen hostage. When you do that, America doesn’t generally sit on its ass and start singing Kumbaya hoping for a mystic intervention. They not only disrupted the transit corridor, they’ve kidnapped mariners, committed piracy on the high seas and have stolen untold millions of dollars from the ship’s owners. These aren’t fisherman, they’re f**king criminals.
You can always count on the liberals to redirect the blame for someone else’s transgressions.
AWB
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The tragic shooting at the Holocaust Museum on Wednesday by 88 year-old white supremacist James Von Brunn, has captured media attention all over the globe. As always, you can count on both the leftwing kooks at MSNBC as well as the leftard bloggers to tie this person to the Republican party.
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