police vs Pirates

[Juan_Arquero]

Smugglers are not stopped for just having a smuggler ID, they have to have contraband.

Tell that to your partners in war crimes -- the SA who should be known as the Nazi brown shirts. An SA officer opened fire on one of my characters (Juan_Williams) who had NO contraband based on the following two lame excuses:

1. I had a Smuggler ID (but he ignored the fact that I had no contraband, unless you count bounty hunter pilots);
   
2. I was red to him, since I had a Junkers tag (but a Liberty Navy player faction, like SA, shouldn't be hostile to Junkers, since Liberty Navy NPCs aren't).
   

Somebody else mentioned that any player who kills bounty hunters should be treated as hostile by the police and navy. That's not true for the following reasons:

1. LPI & Liberty Navy NPCs kill bounty hunters all the time, whenever they catch the bounty hunters with contraband;
   
2. The Bounty Hunters Guild became one of my enemies, because I got tired of being attacked by greedy NPC bounty hunters who were demanding criminal pilots that I had captured -- I don't believe in rewarding thieves, even if they're members of the BHG.
   
3. Juan_Williams' tags were LPI, then Liberty Navy before gaining the Junkers tag -- LPI is still friendly and Liberty Navy is maxed-out friendly (in other words, Juan_Williams is not the average Junker).