Interesting. Mr. Prince is was raised in a highly evangelical Protestant household but converted to Roman Catholicism. In the USA, it's usually the other way around.
Some of those Clambake babes look as if they could be really righteous having their clam's opened. All melted & buttery, ready to open at a touch to my mouth.
(Wait... am I writing a spoof of Clams, or of seafood? I'm so confused.)
Hey, have these bozos gotten a letter of marque and reprisal yet? If not, then they're pirates. Hang 'em.
Loveandlight: he didn't convert, think of him as a deeep cover dominionist tryign to get catholics to be more christian.
Jesus. Anybody want to pass the hat for a Silkworm to put up its stern?
The UK might be a less than example these days..................... but at least private armies were outlawed in the 15th Century after the War of the Roses. The US might want to tidy up and follow suit.
Blackwater pretty much means your sewer has backed up.
In the USA, it's usually the other way around.
His Wiki bio says he converted from the Reformed Church. I note he was a Navy officer. Don't ask me why, but that conversion's been known to be a career move in the Navy. Perhaps people that submit readily to hierarchy, as many of us more congregational types are not, are preferred.
This should make the gun running a hell of lot easier. And I wouldn't be surprised if Navy officers were being quietly advised to leave certain ships alone, and to become selectively blind.
prostratedragon: the refomed churcgh can harbor dominionist, his conversion is a front. he is a stealth evangelical tryign to convert catholics.
The "Sea Org" comparison is apt. Essentially it's fantasy playacting. People I know who indulged in the Sea Org Fantasies in the '70s had quite a lot of fun for awhile until..... most fantasies pall in the light of the real. Real messes, real people hurt and killed, real loss and heartache. All of the fantasy playacting about being Admiral of the Inter-Galactic Space Navy
(Espinol United Stars! Moons suns and Planets! This corner of the galaxy is OURS) is on par with being Mr 007 Super Sexy Mercenary. Same sorts of - er- personalities if you know what I mean. Bat shit crazy. What the hell is going on for this country to go so completely off the rails? Hell it really is as if Scientology were running the planet... I mean, they're not, right? Right??
Depending on what the mission objective is... merc navy makes a certain amount of sense. The ocean is a huge place and even the largest navies can't patrol the whole thing, or even really small areas of it; see the Gulf of Aden. If you want to fight pirates, send pirates to fight them.
BTW: England and France only gave up their right to issue letters of Marque under the Treaty of Paris which ended the Crimean war, not in the 15th cent.
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