Somali Pirates or US Privateers?

[RobinFinderson]

My inner-conspiracy-freak has been whispering in my ear -- the Somali pirates are part of a US-backed shake-down of OPEC countries. The theory goes like this:

1. Piracy, world-wide, has been on the wane since 2004, bottoming out in 2007.
2. All of a sudden we have a massive piracy spike near the Horn of Africa.
3. The United States has been policing those waters for ages. The US is the primary anti-piracy force in the region.
4. Somali pirates are not stupid. They know what an oil-tanker looks like, and they know that oil-tankers are untouchable, because they are protected by the biggest guns in the water (the US navy).
5. When the pirates hijacked the tanker, US war ships were in the area, but remained conspicuously uninvolved.
6. The pirates took over the supertanker around Nov 17.
7. President Bush requested 300 Billion dollars from OPEC Gulf states on Nov 20.

Now didn't that seem a little strange to anyone else? The US suddenly asking Gulf states to cough up 300 Billion to 'help curb the global financial meltdown?' I smell a protection racket.

[tooblue]

My inner-conspiracy-freak has been whispering in my ear -- the Somali pirates are part of a US-backed shake-down of OPEC countries. The theory goes like this:

1. Piracy, world-wide, has been on the wane since 2004, bottoming out in 2007.
2. All of a sudden we have a massive piracy spike near the Horn of Africa.
3. The United States has been policing those waters for ages. The US is the primary anti-piracy force in the region.
4. Somali pirates are not stupid. They know what an oil-tanker looks like, and they know that oil-tankers are untouchable, because they are protected by the biggest guns in the water (the US navy).
5. When the pirates hijacked the tanker, US war ships were in the area, but remained conspicuously uninvolved.
6. The pirates took over the supertanker around Nov 17.
7. President Bush requested 300 Billion dollars from OPEC Gulf states on Nov 20.

Now didn't that seem a little strange to anyone else? The US suddenly asking Gulf states to cough up 300 Billion to 'help curb the global financial meltdown?' I smell a protection racket.

What is the world going to do when they no longer have Bush around to blame for everything?

[RobinFinderson]

What is the world going to do when they no longer have Bush around to blame for everything?

I don't think that realpolitik is unique to Republicans.

[tooblue]

I don't think that realpolitik is unique to Republicans.

It will be interesting to see ... after all there has been a Democratic controlled congress for the past two years? Honestly, you've had the storm'n Mormon from the Nevada desert and Nancy, let's take the private jet, Pelosi in charge for a considerable amount of time now and yet it's Bush's fault.

[RobinFinderson]

This isn't a Bush-bashing thread!

[tooblue]

This isn't a Bush-bashing thread!

You did state "Bush requested" ... I'm not suggesting it is a Bush bashing thread, but I do find all of this very interesting.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

My inner-conspiracy-freak has been whispering in my ear -- the Somali pirates are part of a US-backed shake-down of OPEC countries. The theory goes like this:

1. Piracy, world-wide, has been on the wane since 2004, bottoming out in 2007.
2. All of a sudden we have a massive piracy spike near the Horn of Africa.
3. The United States has been policing those waters for ages. The US is the primary anti-piracy force in the region.
4. Somali pirates are not stupid. They know what an oil-tanker looks like, and they know that oil-tankers are untouchable, because they are protected by the biggest guns in the water (the US navy).
5. When the pirates hijacked the tanker, US war ships were in the area, but remained conspicuously uninvolved.
6. The pirates took over the supertanker around Nov 17.
7. President Bush requested 300 Billion dollars from OPEC Gulf states on Nov 20.

Now didn't that seem a little strange to anyone else? The US suddenly asking Gulf states to cough up 300 Billion to 'help curb the global financial meltdown?' I smell a protection racket.

I would imagine the Rothchild's are somehow behind this.

[il Padrino Ute]

I would imagine the Rothchild's are somehow behind this.

Or the Colonel, despite the fact that he's dead.

[RobinFinderson]

I would imagine the Rothchild's are somehow behind this.

You mock my gift!

On October 26, 2006, I called the election for Barack Obama.

Some of us can see patterns where others can not. I see reality better!

[BlueHair]

Or the Colonel, despite the fact that he's dead.

The Pentavirate - The Queen, the Vatican, the Getty's, the Rothchild's, and Colonel Sanders before he went tits up! What a great movie. My wife quotes it all the time.