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From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: of yeah, "pirates" will save us...
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mike disparages the lee name...it's the fascist way...proud boys and oath keepers and blackwater, stand back and stand by... GOP Sen. Mike Lee suggests letting ‘pirates’ take on cartels on the border by Lauren Irwin - 02/26/25 10:11 PM ET Republican Sen. Mike Lee (Utah) suggested Wednesday that Congress and President Trump should allow private citizens, or “pirates,” to take on international cartels to protect national security. Lee appeared on Fox News’s “The Will Cain Show,” where he was asked about his plan to allow people to be deployed but not using the U.S. military. “Privateers is what they’re called,” he said. “Letters of marque and reprisal are authorized under Article 1, Section 8, Clause 10 of the Constitution.” Lee said it’s the same clause that gives Congress the power to declare war, but it also allows the legislative branch to issue letters of marque, “authorizing privateers, pirates essentially … to carry out acts of piracy.” Host Will Cain clarified, asking the Utah Republican if that’s something he would realistically expect Congress of Trump to sign off on. “Look, it hasn’t happened in a couple of centuries,” Lee replied. “So, I’m not gonna kid you here into thinking this is a certainty to pass. What I’m saying is that it should be considered.” Lee noted that there are “immense risks” with deploying the U.S. military to the shared border and argued that the situation may be less volatile if private citizens were the ones to counter the cartel. He also noted that George Washington was a privateer and investor in privateers. “This was fairly common at the time of the American revolution, and we have to consider it and perhaps pass one with reference to international drug cartels,” Lee concluded. The idea has been floated before. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) recently introduced a bill that would allow Trump to authorize and commission private citizens to “defend our homeland.” |
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From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: of yeah, "pirates" will save us...
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Pirates? He wants to create Pirates?? Did that brainworm jump out of RFKs ear and into Mike Lee's? Would that be another new branch...Army, Navy, Marines...Aarrrrrrrrrrrforce? I swear, there's something in the freaking water. |
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From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: of yeah, "pirates" will save us...
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Sounds to me that he wants to activate the militia, didn't the brown shirts first go after the Communists and once they were loud and proud and easily identified they were "eliminated". The Red Guard were allowed to run amok then after thee Gang of Four lost favor, the Guard were loaded up onto trains and forced out into the Gobi without food water or a way back. The Trotskyites were eliminated in the Great Purges of 1937-8. Again and again these poor souls are recruited, dance with devils and executed as being too dangerous for the new social order their efforts established. Who's going to take this sucker bet this time? |
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From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: of yeah, "pirates" will save us...
| most likely the maga dumbasses...lol... |
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From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: of yeah, "pirates" will save us...
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Apple flew a pirate flag over the Macintosh building, until the Board got tired of the costs. They replaced the local grown workers with Ivy Leaguers and the rest was history until Steve came back to save them. You'd think those who want to play Pirate would look into the history of those Caribbean pirate towns and the British Navy. |
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446398
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: of yeah, "pirates" will save us...
| hey jeff, you can probably get in on this... |
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