RE: Pirates and Privateers

ITTT, when it deals with them at all, deals with each as a government
that
is within an aliance or mutual defence pact. But ITTT is a trade based
corporation.

More like dealing with individual nations of the Eastern Block before
the
fall of the Soviet Union. Treat each as a government, but remember that
there is a bigger power behind them.

On a military level, I would guess that most governments have taken the
JFK
possition with respect to the AE (i.e. an attack fron one memeber of the
AE
will be considered an attack by ALL members of the AE).

On a trade level, each governement is likely treated seperatly.

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Brian Bell
bkb@beol.net   
http://members.nbci.com/rlyehable/gzg/ittt.html   (link to ITTT) 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de [SMTP:KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 4:27 AM
> To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject:	Re: Pirates and Privateers
> 
> Laserlight argued:
> > > I think we need a lawyer-tight definition of  'Pirate'  and an
> > > explanation of the difference between a pirate and the other 
> > > gentlemen (and ladies) mentioned above before we are willing to 
> > > accept the above statement.
> > >
> >   That might be a little tricky.  Traditionally, the difference 
> > between a privateer and a pirate is that the privateer has a letter 
> > of marque, ie is operating with government permission.  In the 
> > Alarishi Empire, however, anyone who can send in a completed 
> > application and pay the fee can become a government--if you can 
> > afford to own a ship, you can probably afford to be a governemnt.
> 
> Would such a AE local government be officially recognised as a 
> sovereign power by any of the powers outside the AE ? 
> 
> Or would they treat them as, say, a state within a federation
(e.g.like 
> the states in the US ), thus dealing primarily with the Alarishi 
> emperor and holding him responsible for keeping any untoward citizens
in
> check 
> ?
> 
> Or would the AE governments be treated as judicial non-entities ? Then
 
> any of their warships would be seen as a pirate.
> 
> Historical sidenote:
> 
> The inverse situation (several independent powers forming a joint 
> fleet) has similar problems, in that the joint fleet is not
necessarily 
> recognised by outside powers.
> 
> Two cases in point:
> In 1848, the German states formed a federation, which also had a Navy.

> Until the British Government recognised the joint German flag, the
ships 
> officially were registered in the various states.
> 
> When NATO created a joint fleet of AWACS early-warnig planes, they
were 
> registered in Luxemburg. 
> 
> Greetings
> Karl Heinz