Too much confidence?

We didn't report on this yesterday lest our supporters mistake a completely serious post for an April Fool's Day joke, but we probably should have posted it anyway.

As it turns out a group of pirates in the Indian Ocean were looking for someone to hijack and saw the USS Nicholas, a US warship. Sensing an easy victory they deployed their skiff and commenced firing on the warship. Somehow in the fray the warship was able to disable and sink the skiff after taking the pirates prisoner. At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not surprised by the pirates' show of confidence in this incident, but we believe it highlights an important misconception in the groups of people wishing to overthrow the current oppressive governments and looking to replace them with something, well, like the New Future. As we have repeatedly stated, the GNU Public Dictatorship is nothing if not committed to change, but we don't think it is a good idea to confront "The Man" head on. Bringing knives to a gunfight might be fun, but it probably won't end well. We prefer to work our change through subtle methods, pulling the strings of the economy and governments. It has worked well for us so far, anyway!