The road to skullduggery is strewn with ill fortune . The reason I'm talking about this subject is to celebrate our potential for change. Scoundrels and pirates were at the forefront of every historic battle, including the American Revolutionary War, when loyalty to royalty hiccoughed and against the odds justice prevailed. Scoundrels and pirates were the high-rollers who spit in the eye of George III and staked their lives on the outcome. People don't do this if they are intimidated by a twelve-point, servile Boy Scout oath.
Pirates have a much simpler code of conduct.
They're allergic to liars. When Pretty Boy Clinton got caught in a lie, he sobbed painfully dumb remorse at a prayer breakfast and got away with it. But if a pirate is ever caught in a fib, his pirate pals are honor bound to throw the lying bastard to the sharks, and sharks don't give a shit about due process of prayer breakfast. That's why scoundrels like Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson never hanged together. It was much safer to hang separately, waging war against George III, and they outsourced some pretty nasty pirates to do the actual work of combat.