Thanks for putting this in perspective!

Had a good laugh.

This is so true.

The effect is clearly visible in the laste decade, where we all know global warming has stopped. This is, of course, the result of the increase in pirates over the last decade: both the real kind off the shores of the Horn of Africa and the phantasy ones personified by the always very cool Johnny Depp.

If you think I'm trolling, I guggest you check this wiki link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue-in-cheek

Could have been reading Watership Down while listening to Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel.

No,

because of the same reason why there are no mobs of angry Chinese protesting and demanding their release: economics.

"Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral."
-Bertolt Brecht

Well, it's a difficult choise no? - either you have a Chinese buyer for your car production plant that is being closed by an American company, saving 5000 jobs (mind you, that is 0.2 % of your total regional working population) - or you support a some chinese guy only 5% of your general polulation has even heared about.

Well, try a post like this in China and see where it gets you..

Didn't anyone see the "sponsored by Microsoft" link on that site?