The Morgan Doctrine

Sunday, April 6, 2025

Guerrilla Warfare Novel Free for the Next 5 Days

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Utah's Senator Lee Leads Cyber Privateer Charge in the U.S.Senate

Utah Senator Mike Lee is advising President Trump to unleash American entrepreneurs using Letters of Marque and Reprisal. Translated: TURN THE PRIVATEERS LOOSE. CLICK HERE to read the NY SUN Article.

Monday, February 3, 2025

The U.S. Constitution Built in a System to Win ANY Cyberwar with Russia, China, or Whomever. Introducing My Audiobook: DADDY'S LITTLE FELONS.

February 2, 2025, I figured I'd celebrate my Mom's 100th Birthday (she made it to 97) by announcing the release of my audiobook novel Daddy's Little Felons, It's available on Google Play at Click Here.

Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 11 spells out how a vastly under equipped army can use licensed and bonded privateers to win any war, including a cyberwar. Yes, the body count will be high, but the rewards will lure the best and brightest to go for that gold ring.

In the Revolutionary War, the Continental Navy had a mere 64 ships, compared to 1,697 privateer ships. The navy had 1,242 guns while the privateers had 14,872 guns. The Continental Navy captured only 196 ships while the privateers captured 2,283 ships. The risk, however, cannot go unreported. While it's unclear how many navy ships were captured by the enemy, 1,323 privateer ships (that's 78%) were captured by the enemy.

I'm thinking that with a president named Donald J. Trump, a secretary of defense named Pete Hegseth, a secretary of state named Marco Rubio, and a high-tech crazy named Elon Musk, we might just have a team to take this bull by the horns.

Hey, Mom. Happy 100th.

Rick

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

The Audiobook for my novel THE LAST WILL & TESTAMENT OF HARLEY AND HIS DOG is now available on Google Play

It the next 20-30 days, it'll be available on Spotify. But if you're really into Audio books, this is a good drive/flight diverson. CLICK HERE to get it now.

Monday, December 2, 2024

A Perfect Christmas Gift for Someone Who Has Everything:

How about a thought-provoking book from Amazon?

A novella about aliens singing in a church choir;
Harley's computer virus whacking alien invaders before they fire the first shot;
My tribute to a Jack Reacher character in Daddy's Little Felons;
The Destroying Angel discovers that women got a bum deal in the Garden of Eden; or
Award-winning short stories by me and members of my writers group.

Click here for my Amazon page.

Background: Welcome black hats, white hats and cyber swashbucklers

The Revolutionary War was fought, financed, and pretty well WON by bonded privateers, legalized pirates who were given Letters of Marque and Reprisal by the Continental Congress and authorized to attack, capture and monetize British ships. The purpose of this site is to explore the possibility of a modern-day doctrine much like the Monroe Doctrine, by means of which the U.S. government could legally and, more importantly, effectively stop international hackers. Current cybercrime law is not only ineffective, but downright stupid. My Linux servers are attacked hundreds of times a day (mostly from China and former USSR domains), yet if I retaliate against those servers with some creative technology at my disposal (I know some VERY smart guys), then I am in violation of federal law and subject to some onerous penalties. We need more than a new law. We need a new international doctrine. I call it The Morgan Doctrine, named after Morgan Rapier, a fictional character I've created (hey, this is my way of establishing ownership of the concept, should it ever see the light of day).

Why a new international doctrine? Simply, nothing else will work. Introduced on December 2, 1823, the Monroe Doctrine told the world to keep their hands off the Americas. Combine this with current legal thinking on "hot pursuit" of fugitives. In 1917 the US Army went into Mexico after Pancho Villa. More recently, in 1960 Israeli Mossad agents abducted Adolf Eichmann from Argentina. Granted, much of the world regards the Eichmann adventure as a violation of international law. I don't share that opinion and therefore use it as the third leg of my Monroe-Pancho-Aldof platform for The Morgan Doctrine.

If someone comes into your home and attacks or attempts to rob you, you may shoot them dead. You may do so as long as they expire on your property. But what about cyber criminals? They attack you in your home from their homes. Retaliate in kind, and you go to jail. The Morgan Doctrine states simply that if you attack my computers (or my banking assets held in US-based computers), then under a certain set of well-defined conditions, a licensed and bonded "cyber privateer" may attack you in your home country and split the proceeds with the U.S. government. For the sake of argument, let's call it a 50-50 split (heh heh).

Right now, American law enforcement is completely unequipped to deal with the sheer number international cyber hackers. Sure, I could report each of the thousand daily attacks to the FBI, as could the millions of other attackees in the USA. But the volume of such reports would make any meaningful resolution laughable. Not to mention that the FBI has no jurisdiction outside the USA. Yet to make such "enforcement" profitable to recognized (ie, "bonded" "deputized") privateers, as Heath Ledger's Joker said in his last role, "Now you're talking!" You raid our bank accounts, we raid yours. You make money from off-shore child pornography, we're going to loot your bank accounts and, with some REALLY creative black hat operations, you will be taken off the grid worldwide to the extent that you'll not even complete a cell phone conversation for the remainder of your miserable depraved life. Okay, that last part probably won't fly, but you get my drift.

The purpose of this site is to explore the mechanics, legalities and practicality of The Morgan Doctrine.

And I will be the sole arbiter of whether or not your comments get posted. As Mel Brooks wrote, "It's good to be king."