I was reading an article on the NY Times website about the Somalian pirates that have overrun and taken hostage the freighter that was headed to Kenya, loaded with Russian tanks.  They are demanding a $20 million dollar ransom.  They claim that they are doing this piracy thing to protect their waters from illegal fishing, and that they want the $20 million dollars to “protect themselves from hunger.”

I think that is a load of hooey.  You don’t fish with Russian tanks, and I can’t believe for a minute that they would use the $20 million dollars to protect anyone from hunger.  I think these people are simply being greedy, and that’s all there is to it.