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    Greenland is the only landmass big enough to bury the remaining Epstein files that weren’t released by the deadline.

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    Will Kier grow a spine finally? No, of course not. Trump will do whatever he wants, and the UK will grovel and bend the knee and let him do it because somebody in the UK government will benefit personally, or because they’re simply too cowardly to refuse to go along with fascism.

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            A letter of marque and reprisal[a][b] was a government license in the Age of Sail that authorized a private person, known as a privateer or corsair, to attack and capture vessels of a foreign state at war with the issuer, licensing international military operations against a specified enemy as reprisal for a previous attack or injury. Captured naval prizes were judged before the government’s admiralty court for condemnation and transfer of ownership to the privateer.

            Hmm that’s a lot of state involvement for a purely private enterprise.

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              It was essentially tax on a private concern. It still holds in maritime law that piracy is only an offence that exists in a civilian context. Militaries by definition cannot commit piracy.

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          Right so a privateer is still a private individual. A private individual sanctioned by the state to commit piracy on its behalf.

          When a state’s military forces seize a foreign vessel that is not an act of piracy it is an act of war

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            Sure, but the original argument was that states could not engage in piracy, not that militaries couldn’t. The existence of privateers and their state mandates show that states can engage in it.

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                Yes they allowed them too, they gave them a list of who they could attack, and at times armed them. Thats very much the state being involved in it. Outsourcing doesn’t absolve culpability.

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                  I’m not saying they don’t retain liability or responsibility. We’re talking about the definition of piracy.