How to legalize privateers

>>54416205
You give them a Letter of Marque, which is literally what distinguishes a privateer from a common pirate?

You need to get shipping containers; a lot of them. Go to some shitty locale near an ocean, and start stacking them in the ocean. Build yourself an island of shipping containers. Announce yourself to be an independant nation. Legalize it in your own rules.

Now you have the start for privateers; go hire them.

Wait this isn't /diy/, forget everything I said about shipping containers.

>>54416205
All you need is an act of congress.

Ron Paul actually tried to get letters of marque issued to authorize privateers against Al Qaeda and Somali pirates.

we are currently investigating allegations that our naval forces are committing acts of international piracy though at this time we have no reason to believe such accusations

we had no reason to believe that forces acting outside the law were in the naval forces abroad and those responsible for this act of priacy have been punished accordingly to the fullest extent of the law

>>54416276

Would Letters of Marque even work for Al Qaeda? They aren't an ocean-going group, so you would have to make land raids against them, which would anger the Afghan and Pakistani governments, with whom the US is currently allied.

>>54416315
We were still at war with Afghanistan and Iraq when he suggested it. He retired before the wars ended.

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>>54416205
Letter of Marque

>>54416205
Drug cartels and paramilitaries worked fine in SA.

>>54416276
>>54416244
>>54416601
These. I ran a shortlived Power Rangers game where the team was sponsored by a megacorp that had acquired a letter of marque to fight monsters that they of course created

>>54416205
Private Military Corporations which already exists. If I'm not mistaken, they even have fast boats and armed crewmen to escort cruise liners in narrow sea passages or near pirate infested waters.

Speaking of which, other than Somalia, you have the Straits of Melaka and the Phillippines Sea as hotbeds for modern day piracy.

>>54416205
Police officers

>>54416205
What is the difference between a privateer and a PMC

>>54418086
One gets to swashbuckle and the other doesn't.

>>54418086
Privateers were authorised to seek out and attack all shipping and/or territories belonging to the enemies set out in their Letters, said enemies being nation states that the issuing state was at war with.
They were basically privately owned vessels with status as naval auxiliaries for the duration of the war that the Letters were issued for.
Any effect they had on piracy was a combination of them wiping out or scaring off unlicensed competition, and doing the same to enemy privateers.

PMC's are contracted on specific terms, not given carte-blanche to conduct warfare against hostile nations.

>>54416205
They already existed in real life?
Clear terrorists, private military contractors, "charities" and (((non-governmental organisations))) who magically have incredible amount of firearms and training to use them.

Countries such as the United States just got better at hiding their clear association with them despite they openly cause unrest in countries that America politically dislike, that's all about it.

>>54419403
>PMC's are contracted on specific terms, not given carte-blanche to conduct warfare against hostile nations.

But that's wrong.
There are a lot of different type of contracts based on needs.

>>54419854
Political entities is also one such as the PKK which is the Kurdish political party which America openly sponsored to devastate Turkey, which supposed to one of their NATO ally.

>>54416244
Wait a second - I thought a privateer was a privately owned and operated warship, and a letter-of-marque was a merchant ship with licence to keep any ship it captured while travelling its route?

>>54416205
>in the modern day

then you want a modern PMC-Navy

>>54419906
>believing Erdogan

>>54420492
Letter of Marque can mean different things but you can't be a Priveateerwihtout a Letter of Marque.

>>54419906
Erdogan can suck a dick, he restarted a conflict he had stopped because he didn't win enough in the national election.

>>54419880
There's an important legal distinction between being the crew of a naval auxiliary and a contracted mercenary.