Pirates are criminals, rather than pure identities.
All governments are authorized to have the universal jurisdiction over the crime of piracy under jus cogen of the international law.The Philippine coast guard officers committed the said crime on the high seas, which leaves us wondering if the Philippine government are still issuing its officers the Letter of Marque as privateers, the 16th century phenomena, to do anything they like to foreign ships?? revised at 2100
海盜，不是一種不變的身分，而是一種犯罪行為。
菲律賓公務員在執勤時行使海盜行為，難道是重現一種不見幾世紀的「私略船」？