By Free Republic | Created at 2025-02-02 04:57:22 | Updated at 2025-02-02 08:07:00
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Erik Prince: Letters of Marque Would Allow Private Organizations to Wipe Out Drug Cartels
Breitbart ^ | 1 Feb 2025 | ELIZABETH WEIBEL
Posted on 02/01/2025 8:52:32 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
Letters of Marque would allow private organizations to operate in the “dead space” in between government bureaucracies where the Mexican drug cartels operate, Erik Prince, an American veteran and the founder of Unplugged Technologies explained during an interview with Breitbart News Saturday.
Prince spoke with Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle about a recent post from Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), discussing what Letters of Marque and Reprisal were and how they could be used to weaken the drug cartels. Prince admitted that he had “helped put this idea in Senator Lee’s head.”
“Letters of marque and reprisal are government-issued commissions that authorize private citizens (privateers) to perform acts that would otherwise be considered piracy, like attacking enemy ships during wartime Privateers are rewarded with a cut of the loot they ‘bring home,'” Lee explained in his post.
When asked by Boyle “what the process would be for a Letter of Marque to be issued” and if it would come from the White House or Congress, Prince explained that the “last Letter of Marque” had been issued after Pearl Harbor “to a blimp operator who was authorized to hunt Japanese submarines.”
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Mexico
KEYWORDS: marque; reprisal
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1 posted on 02/01/2025 8:52:32 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
To: Mr. Mojo
A private organization large and vicious enough to defeat even a single cartel (let alone all of them) would be an undesirable thing.
2 posted on 02/01/2025 8:55:36 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: Mr. Mojo
This would also have made killing Bin Laden about a dozen times cheaper. Glad to see people advocating for what is actually in the Constitution.
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