Plain English alert -- cliché machine temporarily turned off

A PRIVATEER is either "an armed ship that is privately owned and manned, commissioned by a government to fight or harass enemy ships" or one who mans such a ship. But colloquially I think the meaning her would be more like "pirates":

http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-New-Privateers-Civil-by-Jim-Kavanagh-Constitutional-Rights_Police-Abuse-Of-Power_Privatization_Rights-130919-232.html
The New Privateers: Civil Forfeiture, Police Piracy, and the Third-Worldization of America

And in calling them privateers, the author is being plenty audacious. We all need to! Friday at a wonderful PN meeting in Greenville I highlighted the difference between censure and censor.

Do you know what it is, dear reader? These seemingly small things add up to a huge difference in our impact!

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