So many misleading notions in one sentence.
(1) He introduced the bill October 11, after everyone in high places knew that the adminsitration was placing a bounty on bin Laden's head.
(2) Letters of marque and reprsial are completely useless and have no legal or practical utility, and have not had any legal or practical utility for 151 years.
(3) Letters of marque and reprisal are not bounties - the bounty that the President placed on bin Laden was a completely different and vastly more practical proposal than Ron Paul's.
He also made it aware as a tool for the GWB on the 11th of Oct.,
Was that supposed to be English?
Misleading notions like the 50 million offer before RP’s L/of/M offer as you wanted nsmart to believe? Notice you didn’t argue the issue. No worries.
Now do a search for RP to the H/of/R on Sept 25th. You will find your answer.
Wideawake but incoherent?
Letters of Marque existed as a matter of international law when the Constitution was written. It was effectively outlawed by the mid-1850s. The US did not sign the Declaration of Paris of 1856 which outlawed Letters of Marque but it did invoke the Declaration during both the American Civil War and the Spanish American War.
Bottom line, Letters of Marque work only if all parties agree to them. Without such agreement, privateering is simply called piracy. No one has recognized Letters of Marque in one hundred and fifty years.
On question never addressed is who would be stupid enough to act on an American Letter of Marque, knowing they would be acting outside the law, based on “American authority” recognized by no nation in the world. Blackwater, though it’s not really their thing, don’t be silly, they’re not stupid. Dog the bounty hunter or Hulk Hogan. Doubt it. Don Black tried it once, maybe he’d be available.