Who are Somalia's pirates?CSM
Today's pirates are mainly fighters for Somalia's many warlord factions, who have fought each other for control of the country since the collapse of the Siad Barre government in 1991.
WHOM DO THEY WORK FOR?
The pirates mainly work for themselves.
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This is known as "subsistence piracy", and is very popular in the maritime areas of the developing world, especially toward the lower parts of it.
Subsistence pirates are in it for themselves, they mainly "work for themselves", so rather than gold or other negotiable commodities they attacks ships in the main that carry the things they need, like rice and flour and citrus fruits. Also millions of gallons of oil.
The idea that people who sell things to other people, who go and get things the other people want badly enough to buy them at some risk though at a bargain price, say like from a pirate, the idea that those people, the pirates the ones doing the going and getting and the selling, could be said in a very commensensical way to "work for" the other people, the ones doing the buying who intend to end up with the bounty, the booty, the goods, the plunder, the swag, the pillage, when the deal is done - the idea that the pirates work for them, for whomever they deliver their ill-gotten gains to, or intend to so deliver, this idea is laughable. Because it's just "the market". There's really nothing there but "the market".
See the great men laughing at this idea - or sending their trusted servants out into the street to do their laughing at it for them.
That the Somali pirates might be being used, the way the more psychotic soldiers of say the Colombian military or the Colombian paramilitaries or the Guatemalan military back in the 80's or El Salvador etc or in Pando in Bolivia right now, the way the official savagery is contained by its masters long enough to be directed as down the barrel of a gun aimed like a projectile as like bullets to cut down the worse-than-slaves of the Orwellianly named free market worse-than because they have to feed and shelter themselves and they're free to compete with their relatives for a place in the line of chains available to feed their children or not, who come up from that toward equality and begin to demand it and have to be mown down like weeds exterminated like vermin in order for the good to survive and that's determined the good is determined by how much wealth has been bestowed on the good themselves, wealth is a way of measuring virtue when bestowed by the just hand of the Father and what better tool what better weapon to mow them down than these self-motivated but obedient psychopaths, who thrill at the power the horrendous injustice of what they're doing brings, the power of terrifying unarmed innocents with death and worse - that in their smaller less numerically violent Arrr-mateys stylee way these Somali pirates are being used by the same men who have manipulated and midwifed all the other weird shit that's been happening for a while now into the world.
Not so much as that the Somali pirates are as crazy and cruel as the Colombian right-wing's thugs but that they get paid from the same purse and out of the same pocket, indirect or unconnected as it might be made to look.
