Quote Originally Posted by blue View Post

Letters of Marque are at least Constitutional.

Allocating Naval vessels to combat piracy would likely be
far more expensive then issuing LOMs to private contractors.
Letting the Navies of the World combat high seas piracy rather than farm out the
anit-piracy operations would no doubt result in better control and coordination
of the efforts ... and less bad press when incidents like the Blackwater / Iraq
civilian shootings happen during a Letter of Marque operation.

PS: NICE to see ya, Fred!