Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 21:24:46 -0700 (MST) From: snail Subject: [azpeace] re: letters of marque - helped win the american revolution To: azpeace@yahoogroups.com Reply-To: azpeace@yahoogroups.comno i wasnt suggesting we do this.
my point was some voices have said that instead of using military forces we should use "letters of marque" which is something thats in the constitution.
a "letter of marque" allows the government to hire a private party to do the job.
but from the article i included it seems that "letters of marque" as used in the revolutionary war were nothing but the government allowing private citizens to rob and steal in the name of the government.
which would NOT be any better then the current bombing and killing we are doing now.
>This is where I get off the train. When violent uprising begins then
>count me out. I'm for non-violent, resolution to problems. What you
>are enabling with suggestions like this is anarchy. Join their goup
>and make your violent suggestions there.
-- "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty " Thomas Jefferson
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