What a great idea! Can you imagine, there would be so many 'pirate' hunters that it would shut this crap down overnight, not just drugs but ALL of it. Letters of Marque: A letter of marque is a license that allowed private individuals to attack and capture enemy ships during wartime. The term "privateer" refers to the people who held these licenses. The United States has not issued a letter of marque since the early 19th century The Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law (1856) abolished privateering (Note: The US did not sign this) SENATOR MIKE LEE PROPOSES INSTITUTING 'LETTERS OF MARQUE' TO COUNTER MEXICAN CARTELS The focus would be on disrupting supply lines of trafficked drugs and people. Assets like boats, gold, cash, and equipment would be seized. Obviously, the government would handle any drugs involved as well as the trafficked persons. Sen. Lee asserts that issuing letters of marque would be cheaper for the U.S. taxpayer and easier logistically since said privateers could respond to cartels with more agility and could adapt their tactics faster than government troops. He also commented that it would be a preferable alternative to going to war with our southern neighbors. Mike Lee floats allowing private parties to target drug cartels for profit | Fox News
I'll just say - bad idea. The Letters of Marque only work if the folks issuing same have secure borders and are big enough nobody will even attempt retaliation. In the days of sailing ships, OK stuff. In the days of drones that can be carrying a kilo of Fentanyl to spay from the air over a large crowd....not such a good idea. You could not pay me enough to attend a Superbowl.
LOL!!! Okay, so nobody thinks it's a good idea but who to say that the Cartel doesn't spray the Super Bowl anyway since we put them on the Terrorist list and shut the border. I mean, they said they are going to start targeting the border patrol so why wouldn't they go for soft targets?
Bad Idea all around! Basically, the cartels are taunting the U.S. into doing something that could then escalate tensions, make the U.S. look bad to the rest of the world, not a good look! Sending mercenaries is the worst thing we could do, you step one pinky toe across that border, Mexico absolutely will react with violence, treating it as an act of war, no, not a good idea at all. What we should do is force Mexico to participate in "Joint Actions" against the Cartels, hold Mexico responsible/accountable, and then Mexico cannot claim anything against the U.S! So, if we are really as smart as we all hope we are, send our special operations people south into Mexico, treat them like Afganies/Iraquies that you don't really trust for Blue on Blue/Green type actions, and again hold Mexico feet to the fire to police it's own! Remember, the Cartels have corrupted pretty much everything in Mexico, there is literally No One we can trust, from the El'Preaedente on down to the local constable, and everyone in between, even the local dog catchers are likely corrupted, same with their citizens, so, treat them exactly how we did in the middle east! No matter how you slice it, this is going to be a serious fight, so we need to be committed to it long term, and we need to accept that we are going to loose American troops in this fight, but we do this right, it's a righteous fight worth fighting till the end! We also need Canada to play ball in this, same reasons, same results, the real fight is dealing with that fuck head Trudeau for now, he ain't going to back down unless someone grabs him by his little dink and gives it a hard twist, sooner or later, he will absolutely be forced to play ball, the trick is getting him to see it our way as soon as possible!
Going forward, now that the border wall is nearly complete, we need to shore it up further, Berlin Wall 2.0 level of security, a 300 yard no-man's-land, complete with guard towers with shoot to kill orders, lots of sensors to detect tunneling, and top shelf anti drone weapons! Doing this, we need to FORCE Mexico to build, man, and defend it, and they absolutely need to pay for it, doesn't matter how much they may bitch and moan, make them do it, and pay for it, and hold their feet to the fire on it! We also need to FORCE them to set up inspection stations in their side of the border, stopping ALL vehicles for inspection, all persons for potential crossings, and turn back those who don't belong, and enforce the anti drug and other illegal trafficking! Once those vehicles reach the Port entry, they get inspected again, to make sure Mexico is doing its fuckin job! No need for National guard once this is all set up, we have plenty of Border agents to secure things once the border is secured and Mexico is playing it's part and fully supporting it!
All you need a is Jstar flyover every few weeks. Die air force has been working on this tunnel detection shit since nam.
Right turn Clyde Right hook drug loaded vessels all along the coastal Texas and Louisiana you know like Lafitte did?
Better to block the Bab-el-Mandeb straits at Yemen. Start choking out oil and trade to China and the pre-requisite ingredients for fentanyl and other problems will end with it. Chinese troops might even secure the Mexican side of the border as bankruptcy hits the Cartels from lack of customers AND lack of supply on drugs and children for American elites to do things to and make disappear. Why don't these millions of children worldwide ever turn up later, BTW? Aliens? Yeah, good news has me drinking tonight.
Just me and my RC... RC-135 Rivet Joint Surveillance Jet Just Flew Unprecedented Mission Off Mexico Wanna know when it will hit the fan? Watch for this little birdie E-8C Joint Stars > Air Force > Fact Sheet Display
