The arrest of the alleged drug dealer was an organised operation involving several Police units - the fact it went tits up despite being an organised arrest and then the Independent Police Complaints Commission getting on the scene so soon after made everyone very suspicious. How the hell it ended up like it is now I have…
A lot of what we call pirates today where actually privateers. Private vessels commissioned into service by governments to disrupt trade routes and steal whatever they could. Typically the British and French wrecking havoc on the Spanish, although everyone got into the game. Some privateers letters of marque where revoked…