Letters of marque and reprisal now. This one is sailing further and further back into dark ages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque
In practice, the differences between privateers and pirates were sometimes slight, even merely a matter of interpretation
So…he’s privatizing law enforcement, now? Cool.
The Corporate Wars have begun.
Time to buy shares in Taco Bell.
Somebody call Johnny Silverhand
This is one of those things I don’t actually hate. Not in general, but this particular use case.
Like, overseas criminals have stolen your grandmother’s life savings. Those criminals’ home countries have said that they are unwilling or unable to investigate or prosecute them. So what should be done?
There’s not a lot of great solutions, but empowering vetted, domestic cyber security experts to attempt to reclaim the stolen property seems like as good a solution as we’re gonna get?
You can call it “privatizing law enforcement” if you want, but I do think it’s a problem that needs solving, and I don’t know what solution would be better?
If you have better alternatives I’d love to hear them though.
Do this…but with legitimate government oversight. There are literally already branches of the Federal government that do this, or could be further empowered to do more.
All this is, is another way from Trump to funnel taxpayer money to his donors.
Corporate America, World Police!
America! Fuck yeah!
