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		iand on Sept 18, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pirate Party Germany gets into the parliament for ... One country's privateer was another country's pirate. Drake was given letters of marque by the english monarch to raid the spanish around south america.

shithead on Sept 18, 2011 [–]

The British empire has the distinction of being the first founded on systematic piracy.

iand on Sept 22, 2011 | [–]

Oh I don't think we were the first :) But we perfected it.

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