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Betty, any further information on the questions I raised?

Understandably, the areas where you get information are always from the slant of the victim. The above is almost excusing the pirates behaviour. The information tends to be as equally as biased as the press that paints the 'big bad pirate' message.

There is no middle ground and it would seem that some of the sources fail to acknowledge that some of these people are just money hungry *******s.

As I understand, the pirates tend to treat their victims fairly well but that's probably more out of self preservation i.e. if they start killing hostages then no one is ever going to pay up.

If these people are sticking up for their country and their people then I can understand.
As I understand it, it all started with notions of fairness and highlighting their plight.

As has been suggested once the big money came in the motives have probably swung considerably to the money grabbing bas***** to the detriment of the original cause.