Flutterby™! : Talk like a Pirate

Somali pirates tell their side, they just want money so that they can keep protecting the ocean they patrol:

He said that so far, in the eyes of the world, the pirates had been misunderstood. “We don’t consider ourselves sea bandits,” he said. “We consider sea bandits those who illegally fish in our seas and dump waste in our seas and carry weapons in our seas. We are simply patrolling our seas. Think of us like a coast guard.”

Which, of course, reminds me of the allegations that the Mafia flourished in New York because it was protecting the Italians from the Irish cops, when asked to make a decision between competing corrupt police forces, the Italian neighborhoods chose their own. The lines distinguishing a government and its police force, a group of armed vigilantes, and a gang of thugs are suble.