Correct. I've always been at odds with the Brass on a lot of things, but the whole world changed from that war.

[Thinks it over.] It's not that I don't disobey orders. And he doesn't have any regarding me. [He's sure of that much. However much Portgas might want to get along, if Whitebeard ordered Ace to take Smoker's head, he's certain the brat would try. Then again, Smoker doesn't know the Whitebeard crew or Ace as well as he thinks. He does know they're insanely loyal however.] It's just principle. He's had his own crimes to his name, reasons to be caught and executed.... [But being born shouldn't be one of them.] It's just... moot here. The person he was protecting I'm not doing anything about right now, and his grandfather was a marine, one of my bosses actually.