Until then, 1S1K

This Somali pirate issue has been on my mind lately.

I recently watched the movie "Australia" which features many Aborigines. The contrast of how they are represented in news and fiction compared to black Africans is dramatic. To the world, Aborigines are seen as deeply spiritual, and peaceful, honorable, educated, caring and revered.

In Africa, the African peoples are seen as backward, uneducated in the extreme, warlike and downright dishonorable, With absolutely no regard for human life or for that matter animal life. To this day they are stoning men and women as witches, burning them alive, cutting up their own female children. Killing animals for profit to the point of extinction.

There is something wrong with that whole part of the world from The Strait of Gibraltar to the Pacific Ocean.

A friend remarked that every time you hear about them (Africans), they are hacking their own people into little pieces or someone else with machetes or worse. Disfiguring their women, enslaving whole peoples etc., etc., etc.

I know these are gross generalizations but really, I see it pretty much the same way. I would not be afraid to visit Australia, including the Outback (I don't mean the restaurant, good eats though.) but I sure as hell would not be caught anywhere on the African continent for any reason. Or Mexico or South America either.

Hmmmmmm?

I don't believe any amount of money or food or housing or shelter is going to change these people. Look at the Saudis or the Iranians. Money has only cemented their cruel monarchies and theocracies, Entrenching their power with the blessing of the west as long as they ship oil.

It is a faulty premise that we may be able to change Africa for the good from outside. Literally billions of dollars have been squandered on Africa over the years and it has all but come to naught. Squirreled away in so many African despotic leaders foreign bank accounts.

We; the West, have not created this situation any way shape or form though we have contributed greatly to this tragic situation merely by turning an apathetic and incredibly blind eye to that which we know to be evil or at the very least wrong. Despotic leadership and tribal warfare are an earmark of African history as far back as can be recorded. I still have not forgotten Idi Amin or now; Robert Mugabe who currently is being propped up by China and North Korea. Unfortunately, unscrupulous Westerners also fuel the flames throughout Africa by profiteering.

We have lawmakers, enforcers of civil and criminal law and we live in a country ruled by law. I can only imagine the terror most common folk live under in those countries thrown to the wolves. Lawless anarchy rules and many suffer mutilation, slavery, intimidation, robbery and mind numbing violence because there is no one there to stand and protect them.

The world must stop coddling and tiptoeing around these fanatic despots.

Africa the continent is in possession of an almost unlimited mineral wealth, and an agricultural potential not seen since. . . . well, since the USA. The problem is a prodigious one; no leaders or political stability, farce elections, good, honorable leaders are killed or kicked out if they are lucky. Educated, trained and skilled people are nowhere to be found. Africa is an impoverished land, a barren land, lacking a leader or a path.

Further complicating the problems at hand, the continent is in a life of death struggle with the AIDs virus. Education being the paramount deficit in the fight to overcome this virulent disease and in my opinion, unilateral profiteering by the worlds pharmaceutical companies.

No one thing will make a difference without the others. Get rid of the bad guys, educate the people, provide health care, teach them how to profit from mining, farming and living in buildings with air, cable and refrigerators. Teach them to be proper consumers, explain it is bad to mutilate their daughters and that machetes are really for clearing land and "voila" there ya go.

Seriously, it's better than what they have now.

Somali Pirates must be stopped. Till then, 1S1K