Liberty Rules

[Juan_Arquero]

If you would simply attempt to fail LPI missions to fix your tag, we won't fine you a thing.

If, when and how I choose to change my tags, that will be none of your business. As for fines for having LPI tags, those are completely ridiculous.

We are not on a witchhunt here, we are attempting to get people motivated to actually roleplay their tags and to act like a RL military would.

If it looks like a witch-hunt, sounds like a witch-hunt and smells like a witch-hunt, it's a Witch-hunt.

You can build voodoo dolls of me and stick pins in them if you want.

I don't do the voodoo you do.

Liberty means freedom.

I think you need to look up Freedom.

What exactly in the penal code limits freedom?

Stop goose-stepping for a minute and I'll explain it to you.

Freedom to use Police IFFs?

You obviously don't understand what you're saying. New characters start with a reputation that makes gaining an LPI IFF incredibly easy -- just by killing a few Xenos or Liberty Rogues in self-defense. Almost all new characters gain an LPI IFF, unless the player takes steps to prevent that. An LPI IFF just means that the LPI is the faction that likes your character the most. Having an LPI IFF doesn't make you a member of the LPI -- that's the purpose of the LPI ID. The modern day American equivalent of an LPI IFF is a sticker that any American citizen (or even illegal immigrant) can buy from their police association or sheriff's department that states the purchaser is a supporter of said organization and lists the year of purchase. I see those stickers everyday on privately-owned cars and other vehicles. The American equivalent of an LPI ID would be a badge for a local police department, sheriff's department, state police or federal agent (FBI, DEA, et al.).

Freedom to commit identity theft?

Having an LPI IFF isn't identity theft. If you apply that to having an LPI ID without being a member of the LPI player group/faction, then you might have a point.

Freedom to steal, freedom to murder, freedom to smuggle contraband?

I see your feverish mind has started the Witch-hunt again.:crazy:

Can you explain what freedoms are actually violated by this code, and suggest alternatives that do not violate said freedoms?

I've already done that above with one example.

As for the United States.. there, you get YEARS IN JAIL for these sorts of crimes, and fines that take months, if not YEARS to recoup. In all honesty, Liberty looks like an anarchist paradise in comparison.

The last time I checked, joining the local police association (equivalent to gaining an LPI IFF) didn't require "YEARS IN JAIL." You need to chill out. Maybe you should sample some of the synthetic marijuana that must be stockpiled in the LPI evidence room.