Pirates > Privateers

Been thinking about this topic at length lately: how “back in the old days” you would have pirate vessels which would become privateers (via a letter of marque, a document “authorizing” aggressive acts against foreign powers by some state), but it essentially just meant you were a licensed pirate, and conceivably you gained some financial benefit by only attacking one power’s ships, instead of just going willy-nilly after who’s the weakest or choicest target.


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  1. Free Range Organic Human
    Posted June 19, 2008 at 9:04 am | Permalink

    S0unds like these guys were small timers, if they needed a letter. Acc0rding t0 Bucky Fuller’s alternative hist0rical narrative, “the Great Pirates” have run things f0r a l0ng time. They started 0ut as pirates and then decided they needed navies t0 keep fr0m getting r0bbed by small timers. S0 they decided t0 create nati0n states in 0rder t0 build navies.

    Its the reverse 0f the 0fficial narrative. But anyway, the idea was “divide and c0nquer” s0 they created nati0n states and Universities t0 keep pe0ple devided. The Pirates al0ne c0uld c0nnect the d0ts. Nati0n states and Universities prevent gl0bal thinkers fr0m p0tentially c0mpeting with the Great Pirates.

    S0 Basically vari0u nati0n states that supp0sedly d0minated the W0rld like Great Britian, n0w the US (fading) were just the current base 0f 0perati0ns 0f the Great pirates. The British pe0ple never ruled the W0rld. Just like J0e six pack America d0esn’t either. 0ur flag is the flag 0f the East India c0mpany. Thats a clue. What fading Amarican elite secret s0ciety is ass0ciated with the J0lly R0ger? An0ther clue.

    Bucky said the Pirates died 0ut after WWI with the advent 0f physics and advanced chemistry. Because basically they c0uld n0 l0nger c0nnect the d0ts. They just had t0 take vari0us nerds w0rd f0r things. S0 f0r a while n0w n0 0ne has been at the helm. I d0n’t kn0wif that is t0tally true th0ugh, but in a sense I think he may be right.

  2. Julia
    Posted June 19, 2008 at 12:39 pm | Permalink

    I think the letter made them official agents of the Queen and gave them sorts of official protection from free lance pirates.

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