We got our start as smugglers. The Latin American ports were not supposed to be trading with us ... and we weren't supposed to import sugar from the French West Indies ... and the thing that got the New Englander shipping elite upset was when the Brits started adjudicating smuggling cases in Halifax to stop jury nullification.
"America's foreign policy is a product of its geography: weak neighbor to the north, weak neighbor to the south; fish to the east, fish to the west."
Attributed to Otto von Bismarck
We got our start as smugglers. The Latin American ports were not supposed to be trading with us ... and we weren't supposed to import sugar from the French West Indies ... and the thing that got the New Englander shipping elite upset was when the Brits started adjudicating smuggling cases in Halifax to stop jury nullification.