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Originally Posted by Adam
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Originally Posted by LadyShea
Private corps have private security all over the world at all kinds of facilities, don't see why this should be any different.
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I think the key difference is that private security usually serves to protect the private property of the employer, not patrol public territory. Now that I've crapped all over Chuck's "imagine this happening in the mainland US" line of thinking, I'll go ahead and hijack it. Imagine that, instead of hiring security guards for their own buildings, some business in the US decided to hire armed pseudo-police to patrol the roads around their places of business. |
No, they wouldn't just patrol randomly, they would be
escorting their own ships. To avoid problems with the receiving countries firearms laws they simply would not port with their ships, and stay in the Intl waters during that time, then escort them back or go pick up another ship.
To torture the analogy some more, it would be like bodyguards accompanying an executive or celebrity as they travel.