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Pirate Law Proposed to Let Americans Bounty Hunt Cartel Members; Trump's Reciprocal Tariffs
Pirate Law Proposed to Let Americans Bounty Hunt Cartel Members; Trump Announces Reciprocal Tariffs
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
Feb 14 2025
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It’s possible that Americans could someday get a license to hunt drug cartel members. A U.S. senator has suggested that “letters of marque and reprisal” going back to the early 1800s could again be activated. The program under one of the U.S. Founding Fathers, President James Madison, allowed people to receive government licenses to become privateers to fight pirates, and it allowed them to attack and capture certain enemy vessels. If…
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