Quote Originally Posted by ljperreira View Post
Do you like rapists, gang members, scam artists, thieves, and murderers? Are you fond of hard core maximum security prison inmates? No? Well, the only difference is that "Pirates" sail on ships. On my first deployment to Asia as a U.S. Marine I was a part of TRAP team (tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel) and we trained to retake ships hijacked by pirates over near Indonesia (along with Marine Force Recon and Navy Seals), so the problem has never really gone away. Ask a modern merchant mariner who's been hijacked by modern pirates how cool and fun loving those guys really are. I don't think he'll be telling you an amusing story of a guy named Jack Sparrow or Long John Silver.......sorry if I'm being too much of a realist.
Yes. Todays pirates are completely nuts. I mean, they dont even use large cool wooden ships with cannons and flags and drink whiskey and have wooden legs and funny hooks on their hands and trousers made out of jam (thank you Izzard). Futhermore, they dont live in huge boats all the time spending their loot on whores and booze and navigating the seven seas. Todays pirates lives in caves on dry land most of the time and every once in a while takes a ride in a speedboat.

Todays pirates are not pirates, they are criminals with speedboats and lots of guns. They need to at least steal a frigate or an air craft carrier to use as a vessel and raise the jolly jumper before they can call themselves pirates. Those speedboats are an insult to real pirates.