You'll ran as smuggler to the westfalen. Maybe you get killed, but you/your escort can also kill some RM/RFPs, you can reenter the system (rules and so on), the death Rheinland force can't. Sure, there are more than some players, but at anytime, everyone was killed and you can continue without disturbance.
The LPI is a corporation with a trade division, and a close ally of the Navy. I thought it seemed reasonable for us to support them with their operations in Hamburg - Our shared transports are mostly used for cargo interdiction missions on and near the Liberty-Rheinland border anyways, so it was a rather easy decision for us to do.