From:	Marc A Renouf <jormung@*****.UMICH.EDU>
Subject:	Re: F--kingRe: respect
Date:	Tue, 8 Nov 1994 21:43:16 -0500

On Tue, 8 Nov 1994, Wesley W. Walker wrote:

> I'm pretty sure I read in the ShadowRun Sec Ed that there were no more
> law agencies anyway. Just LoneStar, a *really* big Rent-a-cop corp.
> Laws in the SR world are more of a convention than actual standing social
> statutes, with no more actual power to them. Isn't this true? SOOO...
> Runners aren't *technicly* breaking any laws... Heheheh. :)

Actually, this is NOT true. Laws still exist, and there are
still courts, statutes, precedures, and legal precedents. The UCAS
Congress is still cranking out legislation. It's just that the
street-level enforcement of said legislation is contracted out to a
corporation. (Note that in Shadowtech, all of the criminal offenses and
their associated punishments are listed as Local (Seattle) law and
Federal (UCAS) crimes.) So yes, there are still laws, they still have
punishments, and shadowrunners are still breaking them with reckless
abandon and a fair amount of creativity.

Marc