There's this theory I have about the return of odious species such as the largely Muslim and other immigrants car-burning youth gangs in France and marauding pirates off the coast of africa.
Like a Spanish flu returning decades later to haunt us, the return of both the youth gangs and the pirates coincide in the same time frame.
More cold blooded than the ones romanticized on the Hollywood screen, modern-day pirates now lay in wait for cruise ships.
The Seabourne Spirit may have sailed into recent headlines, but there have been some 27 known pirate attacks off Somalia since March. The number of pirate attacks could be even higher given that the owners of many shipping firms, fearing raised insurance premiums, do not even report incidents or ransoms they paid.
Too bad more elected leaders are not as decisive as the Seabourne Spirit's courageous captain, who first had his passengers taken into areas deep inside the ship before making a run for open seas and leaving the pirates behind.
My theory is that bungled bureaucracy and politically correct times have indirectly paved the way for the return of the pirates to the high seas and for the return of what I believe are politically motivated youth gangs to threaten anarchy for France. Latter day youth gangs and pirates know they can count on the fumbling of bureaucracies. They know that government leaders of the day are afraid to call a spade a proverbial spade in politically correct times.
In other words, long before authority ever catches up to them, in the case of the pirates, the booty will already have been counted up and shared. For youth gangs, curfews will be called long before the army ever is.
There's no bigger bureaucracy than the one trying to expand its mammoth New York turf. For sure the United Nations, which has a Keystone Cops image when it comes to resolving global issues, is long on rhetoric and short on action.
a perfect example of this theory can be seen in Somalia. andrew Mwangura, program co-ordinator of the Kenyan Seafarers' association says about the pirate attack on the Seabourne Spirit: "If you operate in these waters (off Somalia), you must operate as if you were operating in a war zone.
Somalia is an excellent breeding ground for pirates. Rival warlords have ruled Somalia since dictator Mohammed Siad Barre was overthrown in 1991.
Despite several attempts to end instability in Somalia, there has been no governing authority in place, and warlords have overtaken a nation of up to 10 million souls.
For the masses, it has been 13 long years of bloody battles staged by continuously warring factions.
a UN special envoy told Somalia warlords to become "peacelords" in a country where warlords have taken the art of anarchy to frightening new heights.
"Let us all become ‘peacelords' for Somalia," said Francois Fall, the UN special envoy to Somalia in a statement released on the last UN International Day of Peace.
The lexicon of UN dithering diplomats is lost on warlords and youth gangs with agendas of their own.
You can't morph warlords into peacelords with hopeful words. You can't bring car and building-burning youth gangs under control without the military, and no matter how the UN would have it, you can't negotiate with terrorists.
You can't allow a Rwanda to go down on your peace watch and then accept the Nobel Peace Prize without underlining the word "hypocrisy".
There is no way you can keep pirates and disaffected youth from reading the never-ending stream of media releases from the glass tower in Manhattan on the Internet.
Meanwhile, just as there's no honour among thieves, there's no relief for those hoping for ephemeral peace from the mealy-mouthed and pious United Nations.
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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