Hypocrisy

[Orin]

One side:

as a BAF member I never stop in one place for any extended period of time, I get smugglers through Leeds/Edinburgh, Corsairs in Cambridge or sometimes London, sometimes do a good will omega 3 patrol if theres a wingman or two (afraid not all the time..), dublin usualy if we/I are chasing someone or halting smugglers, Newcastle is just too bloody big, but I guess we have to stop CR there sometimes.... the thought of camping a single planet is just plain crazy.

On the other hand:

only problem being smugglers arent in lightly armed trucks, they're in huge tankers with a shield gunboat'ish, and guns that are also gunboat ish, with more cargo space for armour upgrades (my trader has universal 2.5 even). nowhere near enough police to do the antismuggling work, can a LF easily down an advanced train? a container transport? if you sit on a lane and spam dock it'll eventualy let you use it before it can be distrupted, Smugglers know they can just use the lane to go wherever they want. though I guess the LPI can get all its members setup in "SWAT" ships (bombers), drugs are halted by heavily armed police normaly, dontchathink?

I don't know what you're getting at here. The LPI do have a SWAT division that fly Havoc Bombers and Guardian Heavy Fighters.

Besides, smuggler transports and freighters aren't that heavily armed. Transport guns are good, but they can't fight off fighters very well. The LPI can handle it fine. I've handled it fine in a Liberator LF while I was in the LPI.

The Army don't attack criminals and smugglers en masse in super-powered military equipment. Period.