TO: Liberty High Command
FROM: Junker Copernicus
SUBJECT: Dealing with Smugglers
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I bring this to your attention as I know you have made a conscious effort to crack down on unscrupulous activities within Liberty. It is bad enough when a civilian or others act in this manner, but far worse when members of the government or others representing the people of Liberty do so.
There is an independent Liberty Gunboat who has chosen to act in opposition of Liberty procedures with regard to dealing with contraband. I have attached photographic evidence of a member of the LPI, /LC/-LRC-Poseidon, beaming aboard contraband (Counterfeit Software) from a vessel he had just destroyed. He then docked and sold the contraband for his own profit. This practice can bring negative attention to the LPI and the rest of Liberty as many would view this as a form of piracy. If the pilot carrying the contraband is not destroyed and sees the Liberty vessel beam the contraband aboard for himself ... what is he to think? An agent of Liberty doing such things is one step closer to accepting bribes.
My understanding is that contraband is to be destroyed immediately when encountered. I can understand slaves, pilots and other living beings would not be destroyed but rescued to safe haven. But contraband such as these Counterfeit Software should be destroyed immediately and not cashed in for profit.
I do hope Liberty citizens can rest assured this activity does not happen again.