Reports from Somalia state that the pirates who hijacked a Ukrainian cargo ship in September of this year have received their ransom and left the vessel. The ship and its crew of 20 was released after the pirates were paid a reported sum of $3.2M out of the $20M they had reportedly demanded. One of the pirate leaders talked with the AFP via phone and explained that "No huge amount has been paid, but something to cover our expenses," and that he was very happy with the result.
Meanwhile, the Kenyan government claims that the 33 upgraded T-72 battle tanks and various small arms, including assault rifles and RPGs, were theirs, however the manifest shows that they were headed for South Sudan. Kenya, who helped broker a peace for the Sudanese Civil War in 2005, would be embarrassed if it was learned that they were supplying arms to the Southern Sudanese rebels.
And the circle of life continues!
Sure, it's wonderful that the crew of the cargo ship was released, minus the Russian captain who conveniently died of a heart attack shortly after the pirates seized his ship, but isn't this all just bringing up more issues? And even better, it brings up the fact that nobody fucking gives a shit.
We can all agree that genocide is a bad thing. We've seen the fucking PSAs (because god forbid the average American reads once and a while). We can all agree that pirates are bad. But when you get in a situation where pirates seize weapons that are to be used for genocide: the obvious solution is to give the pirates what they fucking want so those tanks can be used to crush their enemies, see them driven before them, and hear the lamentation of their women... because that's what good little tanks are supposed to do.
Seriously, I don't know what the fuck could be done here, but I know when things are rotten. Fact is, we're actually fine with the killing continuing, because it means that some fat-cat douchebag makes money selling lonely old Cold War weaponry that was tragically never used to fuck up the European country-side until it resembled the moon. But hey, it's all good because... nope... can't really find a bright side to that one.
I don't even need to make any fucking jokes about this. The situation is humorous enough in a dark and tragic way. Insert your own fucking genocide joke here. Hell, I'll even get your started:
What do you get when you've got 2M Sudanese dead in a mass grave? _________________________________________________________________________________
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Oh man, I bet it's fucking hilarious.
You know what? Fuck caring about shit. I'm gonna go play Call of Duty on Xbox Live and frag some NOOBs... and then probably get into an argument with a fifth-grader from Scotland about his mother. You've got to love globalization.
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