Privateer (disambiguation)
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Privateer is an unethical corporation or wealthy individual hired covertly, i.e. under the public radar, by an enabling accomplice (elected or appointed) inside a government to fulfill a protection or empowerment function of that government without any public accountability for the purpose of undermining that government's moral mission to its people.[1] S/he is a thief of the common wealth and enemy of the public good.
Privateer may refer to:
- Privateer (motorsport), a competitor in motorsports who does not have manufacturer support
- PB4Y Privateer, a naval version of the B-24 Liberator bomber
- Wing Commander: Privateer and its expansion pack Privateer: Righteous Fire, a 1993 video game
- "Privateers" (The West Wing), a 2003 episode of The West Wing TV series
- New Orleans Privateers, sports teams at the University of New Orleans
- Privateer Press, publisher of tabletop role-playing games
- USS Privateer (SP-179), later YP-179, a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1930
- Privateering (album), a 2012 album by Mark Knopfler
- Privateering, a track on the album, also released as a single.
- Privateer (album), a 2007 album by Tim Renwick
- Privateer, South Carolina
- Pirateer, a board game
References
- ↑ George Lakoff, The Political Mind, Chapter 7, "Framing Reality: Privateering"
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