[US at Risk]

While the crickets were chirping, I looked up Letters of Marque in the Free archives and came up with this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1153347/posts

Very interesting, and I can see the potential for modern-day application. Issue the letter, obtain necessary permissions from necessary parties through diplomacy, then blammo. Harboring would be right out in the sunlight for all to see. RP hit this one out of the park, IMO.

Didn't mean to jump into the middle of your argument! I responded to the cartoon when I saw it, unaware of the later discussion.

[George W. Bush]

While the crickets were chirping,...

Not to worry. You're free to laugh at them. I've found some of them funny before back before the RP threads became nothing but a spamfest with the trolls reposting their earlier posts from other threads repeatedly and now resorting to such vast amounts of image spam that their intent is obviously to disrupt any discussion whatsoever.

Very interesting, and I can see the potential for modern-day application. Issue the letter, obtain necessary permissions from necessary parties through diplomacy, then blammo. Harboring would be right out in the sunlight for all to see. RP hit this one out of the park, IMO.

Precisely. With Blackwater recruiting so many talented special forces vets for big pay, why not use our most fundamental laws to authorize them to hunt down Osama and his henchmen? We already offered a $25 million reward for his capture to the public and recently increased it to $50 million. Why not offer the authorization of a letter of marque and reprisal to such an operation carried out by American mercenary forces since we already are using them so extensively in our war effort?