Pirate Piracy

What do Blackbeard, Johnny Walker, Peter Sunde, & Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse all have in common?

They all are classed as pirates. Blackbeard being the only true pirate and Johnny Walker coming a close 2^nd as a tormentor of the air waves and high seas with his pirate broadcast from the Radio Caroline days.

Peter Sunde is one of the members of Pirate Bay who has just been jailed for music ‘piracy’, but theft of music paints a clearer picture.

It seems everyone is jumping on the same boat with their eagerness to pirate the term pirate.

These Somali Pirates are being classed as such by the media when they really should be classed as kidnappers, hijackers, thieves, extortionists etc. They don’t even have a skull and cross bone flag never mind a wooden leg, eye patch and parrot. It seems that if you hijack on water you can raise your status and declare yourself a pirate, thus softening the appearance of any crime.

Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse ( the recently captured Somali Pirate) is cleary loving his new found fame as that of a 21^st century pirate and is seen here smiling as he goes to court – obviously proud to be considered up there with blackbeard.

Bring back the swashbuckling pirates that Erroll Flynn fought.

I'm off to report a highwayman holding up a taxi or was it a stagecoach?