To many movies. You are trying to make a pirate’s life glamorous. Ask a modern day pirate how glamorous a pirate’s life is! Taking after a container ship in a leaking used fishing tub off the coast of Somalia. The container ship makes a sharp turn and smashes your tub under it’s keel. Or worst the Navy shows up and “bang” your dead. Also no one rescues a pirate in the open sea. And if your lucky and capture a ship, you don’t get any money, a warlord in Mogadishu gets the money.
In the United States, sovereign immunity typically applies to the federal government and state government. But they can’t be Guillotined, they must be impeached.
Rex non potest peccare is a Latin legal maxim meaning “the king can do no wrong” Sovereign immunity was derived from British common law. It’s good to be the KING
Not if you master the dance of “The little sidestep”, now they see me now they don’t-I’ve come and gone and, ooh I love to sweep around the wide step, cut a little swathe and lead the people on. It has worked for politicians for centuries!
Not again… Marsha, Marsha, Marsha ….. Never Jan?