Comm ID: Captain Richard I. Bong
To: Southern Alliance Senior Staff, Zoner Council, Liberty Security Force Agent Julian Mellanby
If the Zoners are flying Liberty Cruisers, then they are clearly in violation of federal laws prohibiting the theft of military vehicles, and federal laws prohibitng the theft of military capital ships.
I demand an explanation for this. HOW did this individual acquire a vessel restricted to high ranking Liberty Navy personnel? WHO gave him authorization to captain such a vessel? WHAT is the vessels registration? IF the Zoner indeed, as I suspect, stole it, then I demand the Zoner Council immediately discipline him, as we will not tolerate the theft of our property or the flagrant disregard for Liberty law shown by many Zoners over the past months.
If the Zoners do not get their act together and rein in their own, I will move to open a closed conference on the legal status of the Zoners as an organisation in Liberty, and order my men to give extra scanning attention to any entering Zoner ships in Liberty. We have already had an incident of a Zoner ship aiding and abetting a group classified as one of the most dangerous terrorist groups in Sirius across all 4 Houses, our allies in the Bretonian Armed Forces report numerous hostile incidents between Zoner ships and Bretonian Armed Forces vessels, insulting of our personnel, entrance into the most restricted area in all of Liberty, firing upon our personnel and the harbouring of a wanted fugitive.