Utah Senator Mike Lee and Tennessee Representative Tim Burchett introduced legislation in December to make privateering great again with the Patriots of the Caribbean bill. (It's amusing to me that they both represent landlocked states.)
Here's maritime historian and privateer Sal Mercogliano's analysis of it:
2 comments:
My sense is that we should definitely authorize privateers; the whole thing works better when ordinary citizens are empowered and government bureaucracies are less central. Militias, privateers, volunteer fire departments, less centralization, more private choice to engage.
Give me a privateering air force, too.
Eric Hines
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