My history classes told me the Lusitania was carrying nice Americans across the ocean when the bad Germans sank it. It turns out the ship was also carrying weapons that the European ruling classes intended to use in their war against liberalism and the poor. But I’m sure we’re getting the full truth about piracy today.

Stefan Molyneux shares some background and perspectives on piracy in a recent video.

Now that the progressives are trying to rule the world, we can expect military force to be used to uphold the bleeding hearts’ enlightened management of people – and expect a bullet to the head for anyone who gets in the way.

In a Democracy Now interview, Mohamed Abshir Waldo, a Somali consultant and analyst, describes how piracy developed in response to the theft of seafood from areas that local fisherman had occupied and used for years, and the dumping of toxic waste where it caused people to get sick.

The gangsters who patrol the Somali shores have as much right to call themselves a coast guard as the gangsters who abduct migrating people and narcotics entrepreneurs along American shores do.

Of course, a stateless America would have more resources at its disposal to prevent exploitation from international capitalists, whether they be thieving trawlers or bankers appalled that we have no intention to pay the debts that the government ran up to finance our enslavement.

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