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Scam Farms Marque and Reprisal Authorization Act of 2025 - authorize the President to issue letters of marque and reprisal with respect to acts of aggression against the United States (www.congress.gov)

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[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

(a) The President of the United States is authorized and requested to commission, under officially issued letters of marque and reprisal, so many of privately armed and equipped persons and entities as, in the judgment of the President, the service may require, with suitable instructions to the leaders thereof, to employ all means reasonably necessary to seize outside the geographic boundaries of the United States and its territories the person and property of any individual or foreign government, as applicable, who the President determines is a member of a criminal enterprise or any conspirator associated with an enterprise involved in cybercrime who is responsible for an act of aggression against the United States.

Let's break that down by removing some of the unnecessary exposition between those commas:

The President of the United States is authorized and requested to commission so many of privately armed and equipped persons and entities as the service may require to employ all means reasonably necessary to seize outside the geographic boundaries of the United States and its territories the person and property of any individual or foreign government who the President determines is a member of a criminal enterprise or any conspirator associated with an enterprise involved in cybercrime who is responsible for an act of aggression against the United States.

They want to give the president the authority to commission privately-armed groups (mercenary companies) to attack and seize people and property outside the United States' territorial jurisdiction, on nothing but the president's say-so.

(b) Security bonds.—No letter of marque and reprisal shall be issued by the President without requiring the posting of a security bond in such amount as the President shall determine is sufficient to ensure that the letter be executed according to the terms and conditions thereof.

He'll do it if he gets paid. So corporations can have our country rob, rendition, or assassinate foreign nationals and it's part of their bottom line.