Re: Letters of marque

G'day,

Just stealing Derek's email for a sec...

>I just wonder what this supposedly has to do with the pirate raids.
Those
>ships registered in Panama, Cyprus or Bermuda hardly ever see their
home
>waters.

Sorry trying to do two things at once and so probably wasn't as clear as
I 
could've been. I was trying to show that the claim that home nations 
wouldn't stand for their trade being intercepted isn't necessarily going
to 
hold true as the ships involved are often registered in third party 
countries and so the connection back to their real home nation falls 
down... or at least on the surface anyway. That probably wasn't any 
clearer, but as tired as I am I think if I try to rewrite the
explanation 
one more time even I'm not going to know what I meant ;)

Also while I remember, it might be pertinent to the general discussion
is 
that sometimes it is the navy of a nation state that acts like pirates, 
thinking to the incidents involving the Chinese navy and boats which
were 
off China, but in international waters.

Cheers

Beth

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