Also, I find it amusing that those who are most against this also are the people who are likely receiving weapons or crew from these people.

As laid out prior, and apparently ignored. The mere idea of having hostile forces take part of the investigation is absurd.

who are proven enemies of a certain government

So find some who aren't? There must be someone, somewhere who neither hates, nor supports either the Amarr or the Minmatar? I mean, hell, use the Sisters if you need too.

Pay close attention to what Captain Blake is demanding and suggesting; that these rescue people should be returned to their "rightful owners." He is demanding their "present locations." This isn't about investigating abandonment on the part of PIE members. This is about what PIE member perceive as their "property rights." This is not a matter of negotiation and diplomacy. This is a matter of not violating our core values. Captain Blake says, "efforts should have been made to return them to their owners." This is anathema to who we are and we will do nothing that would assist anyone in doing the same. That is why this is not a matter of negotiation.

As to a manifest: Are you aware that the only record we have when we rescue former slaves is the name and information of the pilot transporting those individuals? The names of the original holders are unknown to us unless the rescued people choose to reveal it. We publicly publish those on our Wall of Shame. PIE may wish to contact those myriads of pilots if they wish to find the names of the original holders.

I do not know if any of them are members of PIE.

Again, look at Captain Blake's orignal post and note that his concern is not in investigating his own people but trying to return their slaves to them.

So you decided to allege that PIE officers had been abandoning slaves to their deaths without first checking your facts? I think that you owe every single member of PIE a public apology for your false and egregious accusation.

You said, that you rescue them wherever they may be found. However, you must understand, that taking slaves form 'wherever' IF they are still someone's property, and that someone DIDN'T give you permission to take these slaves, is considered a THEFT. Even if you take them in territories where slaves are illegal cargo, this is still a THEFT.

From my point of view, theft is one of the most severe and dirtiest forms of crime. Thieves took others property, who worked hard to acquire it, and thieves don't have balls to fight owners like pirates do. I think that all thieves deserve capital punishment wherever they are detected, and I am ready to put an end to them even if I violate law myself by doing it.

If you in fact have any slaves, that you took from PIE and they are requesting to return them, you MUST compensate. Even if you gave slaves to their 'rightful owner' (freed), you still took some property from their previous owner, that you MUST return. If you can't return slaves, then pay their EXACT average market price or pay with other goods of equal value if previous owner will accept these goods as payment.

Even if you didn't steal yourself, but merely accepted stolen property from someone else, you MUST compensate it for previous owner, by either returning stolen goods or paying with money/other goods.

I would have expected the Disciples to be more vocal on this topic.....and yet we have not heard fromthem for several days now. This is very uncharacteristic of them, as they seem to love to blather on ad nauseum at the drop of a hat. What has changed??? Why the sudden silence? What are they up to?

I would humbly suggest that the matriculation centres be put under ongoing and covert observation, as the disciples are so fond of saying they (the centres) are run by their own councils.....what is stopping them from the councils - in the spirit of self-determination - have not chosen to arm and prepare to fight any effort by Amarrian authorities to inspect them?

As far as I know, their vow of silence does not extend to private communications. They could easily take measures to resolve this.

But I've heard nothing from them. Their silence speaks volumes.

It appears that they're perfectly happy to hide behind their Shaokorite shills, which doesn't do anything to dispel the idea that they're little more than a front organisation for an underground monorail.

In high sec. I'm sure that you'd be the first to agree with me that the authorities would only come down on criminals in areas where they patrol - ie high sec. Using basic logic, one knows that if the cops are not there to see you, they will not take action.