This has been a public service message from your local Grammar Nazi in training.
Also, to be constructive to the topic at hand, yes indeed, the BAF have privateers. If you ask me, corporations like the BMM should have privateers, as well - hassle the competition. The Dutch East (or was it West?) India Trading Co had privateers back in the day, and used them to hassle the Spanish treasure fleets (hoozah for History lessons). I think it would make for interesting RP, though with next to no one running faction-specific trader IDs, there wouldn't be much point to it (as you'd have to target specific IDs, not just the generic Trader IDs).