04-15-2009, 06:36 PM
Well, let me remember what her majesty's justice did with William kidd ? His body was hung in an iron cage and exposed on the Thames. But it was in 1701...
The way he stupidely attacked the HMS Quedah merchant with a french flag and then became a pirate is delightful...
Let's never forget that the difference between a pirate and a corsair is thin, just like between resistant/terrorist (the french have really well known this one 60 years ago and later in Algeria from the other side) , hero/bad guy, etc.
Great bandits always had an aura of sympathy (till a certain measure of course). A raw treatment has to be assumed for decades later. A stupid pirate shot when attempting to assault a ship stay a moron. But a poor somalian fisherman, "reputedly forced" to become a "courageous" pirate who escape to all the western navies is a perfect hollywoodian hero for all the country...
bye
The way he stupidely attacked the HMS Quedah merchant with a french flag and then became a pirate is delightful...
Let's never forget that the difference between a pirate and a corsair is thin, just like between resistant/terrorist (the french have really well known this one 60 years ago and later in Algeria from the other side) , hero/bad guy, etc.
Great bandits always had an aura of sympathy (till a certain measure of course). A raw treatment has to be assumed for decades later. A stupid pirate shot when attempting to assault a ship stay a moron. But a poor somalian fisherman, "reputedly forced" to become a "courageous" pirate who escape to all the western navies is a perfect hollywoodian hero for all the country...
bye
Greg Reynaud (the ferret)
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Britto-roman milites, 500 AD
Britto-roman milites, 500 AD
