What Happens When You Pay The Ransom

Spain calls for pirate blockade


She also called for the international community to track ransom payments made to Somali pirates by shipping firms through intermediaries.

Somali pirates are currently holding 36 Spanish fishermen hostage on a trawler.

The pirates say they will not release any of the fishermen until Spanish authorities release two of their colleagues from custody in Spain.


So what we have here is an entire ecology of pirates, and victims , and security personal trained to deliver ransoms , and the whole nine yards. And they're demanding the pirates you did catch get returned or they'll do nasties to the hostages they have at the moment. Which are many . Because they've been at this for a long , long time.

Now how did we ever arrive at this point , you wonder ?

It's simple.

They paid the ransom.

And the pirates found the money good. So they did it again , and again , and again. And more and more joined the pack, until it became a huge wealthy industry not only on the pirate side, but on the victim side as well, as all sorts of security experts had to be hired on because of it.

Very profitable all around.

Unless your the customer trying to buy the goods being shipped on those boats and wondering why the price is so high all of a sudden ?

Unless those goods are actually needed to save lives (weapons , medicine , food , you get the idea).

Unless your economy depends on trade and you have people starving on the street because you can't afford to feed them because all trade is blocked by pirates.

Thank you for demonstrating to us all why you should not pay the ransom. Now the only question is what will the toll in blood be to shut this place down. You've let it run for quite a while so I'm certain the body count will be rather high.

Just as I'm certain there isn't any choice in the matter.