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Self-Defense

The Solution to Piracy: Self-Defense and Marque & Reprisal

By tmartin on April 20, 2009

In his latest column Ron Paul offers a beautifully simple, inexpensive and constitutional solution to the growing piracy problem: First, allow ship owners and operators to defend themselves. Second, issue letters of marque and reprisal to private individuals and organizations to hunt down and capture pirates. — tmartin

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Posted in Foreign Policy, Ron Paul's Writings | Tagged Marque and Reprisal, Piracy, Self-Defense, Somalia | 42 Responses

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