Privateers

Kim du Toit has a great solution to the piracy problem around the horn of Africa. The U.N doesn't have the ability or the will to take care of this.

"Indeed, if some enterprising billionaire were to offer the funding to equip a mini-fleet of privateer vessels (instead of pissing it away on nonsense like Alleviating Third World Hunger—which sounds wonderful, but achieves nothing), I think I’d volunteer right quickly to crew one of them. My gout-induced lack of mobility is irrelevant on board a ship, and what I lack in seamanship and such, I will more than make up for with weapons prowess, and bloodthirstiness which would make these so-called pirates look like a bunch of Baptist Sunday-school teachers."

The U.N. wants to be a world government, but would only be capable governing like the Alliance government on the TV series Firefly. They want everyone under their control so we can be meddled with or ignored as they see fit.

Peace.