If they open this up for Venezuelan oil tankers, I may just quit my job and buy a boat!

Someone would have to be pretty damn stupid to go after cartels as a private citizen, but this won't pass anyway.

shiftyandquick said:

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More red meat for the MAGA base. The bill would authorize private (non-govt, non-LE) Americans to seize cartel property on land or sea and allows them "to employ all means reasonably necessary."

Raiding parties across the border into Mexico?

Presumably with no oversight, no penalty for "mistakes" or murder or anything else.

https://ksltv.com/local-news/mike-lee-privateers/859307/

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Its a valid policy and one that the usa has enacted in the past

shiftyandquick said:

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More red meat for the MAGA base. The bill would authorize private (non-govt, non-LE) Americans to seize cartel property on land or sea and allows them "to employ all means reasonably necessary."

Raiding parties across the border into Mexico?

Presumably with no oversight, no penalty for "mistakes" or murder or anything else.

https://ksltv.com/local-news/mike-lee-privateers/859307/

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If that bothers you, wait until you find out they are thinking about adding three tags to Texas hunting licenses to allow the taking of illegals. No restrictions whatsoever other than the limit of three.

You almost got your username, completely right!

nomad2007 said:

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Someone would have to be pretty damn stupid to go after cartels as a private citizen, but this won't pass anyway.

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Oh I don't know. Erik Prince and a Blackwater type of org with mercs? When I was young I remember Soldiers of Fortune had classified ads for mercenaries. They went to where they would be paid, even if that meant Angola or Idi Amin's regime (or similar). Cartels employ killers but not necessarily highly trained killers with military backgrounds. Capitol intensive to set it up but if the payoff is there to be made?

Just spitballin'.

I've read enough Clive cussler books to believe it to be possible

Cajun Navy gonna be doing some work during hurricane offseason.

Ellis Wyatt said:

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Who knew Bill Kristol started posting here?

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aggiehawg said:

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Letters of Marque and Reprisal?

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EOT!

Who?mikejones! said:

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I've read enough Clive cussler books to believe it to be possible

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So have I.

Refresh my memory if you can, the name Inver Brass was from a Ludlum novel? Or is memory faulty?

toot him Elizabeth. Toot him!!

My assumption is that hackers siphoning cartel funds from banks will be the initial focus of enforcement under this law.