Coalition pirates?

[Sturmwind]

1. Insurance premiums will rise on shipments. This will mean a higher end price for the consumer, or lower profit for the transporter. After all, the corporations won't lower their prices, nor pay such premiums, these costs are transferred to the people.

But hundreds, thousands of others will be fed and will be grateful for you feeding them. If you pirate a trader, of course they will be victims in the situation, but they won't support you for NOT pirating them. The corporations wouldn't even notice a few shipments lost here and there, the SCRA pirating would only be a drop in the ocean unless the Coalition had the manpower to place men at every single trade lane.

2. There will always be resistance. What do we do if the transport Captain says no? Do we shoot him, and his crew? That, we have repeatedly said, will not happen. So if you are a trader... why would you stop? Halt! or I'll say Halt again! isn't going to be enough. So why bother?

The "2 mil or die" tactic obviously wouldn't work. By deploying a force that resembles that the captain doesn't have a chance for resistance will obviously lower the chances of him trying to escape. Not to mention that some traders might get charitative if you explain why you need the money. If he does and you have to shoot him (which may act as an act of terror and I'm not saying you should resort to that), think of the following:

• The ship's crew was sacrificed for a greater good. A lot of people will be better off with their sacrifice if his cargo gets distributed among people who need it.
  
• They are serveants of the corporate tycoons. Yes, some of them might not have a chance for a better living, but think of the fact that someone who already gets a vessel to space is obviously not as underpaid as anyone who performs planetary duties. Also, they always had the chance to join the RRA/LRF/SCRA, whatever movement so even if it's not everything that kept them from joining, they obviously were paid well enough.
  
• Almost every single transport fuels some war effort. The survival of one of these can guarantee the death of ten others. Either directly or indirectly, damage is caused.
  

3. Will it hurt the corporations? No, they still get their money, their goods still get through. They will not lower their profit margins to cover costs, instead they will merely rise prices. Take OPEC as a good example of what will happen. No, our best bet is to protect the workers, encourage them to rise up against their business owners and take the factories from the rich.

On a long term, it would. The more people you can get on your side by distributing the capitalists' supplies among the working class (giving back to the workers what's theirs) and making the corporate workers realise they are being abused, the closer the doom of the corporation is. Yes, it would obviously hurt some people, but think of the USSR in it's first decades. The death of a million guaranteed the well-being of generations that followed afterwards and that the Soviet Union didn't fall to the Germans in WW2 because of their industrialisation.

Radical method indeed, but otherwise the SCRA doesn't have a chance of expanding, the same applies to communist movements in the beginning of the 20th century. The Ontario liberation attempt was looked upon as terrorism by the rest of Liberty (although I personally adore what you've done there), but the image of the SCRA is as I mentioned before, corrupted by the history and the House propaganda.

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Disclaimer: Yes, I know this debate won't achieve anything. I'm not trying to alter the goals and methods of the SCRA, just playing with thoughts.