David Johnson wrote:

> Maybe, but let me ask you to consider this from a different
> perspective. Imagine you're a middle class taxpayer -- or an upper
> class investor (or even a "Terran Tramptown" denizen) -- on Terra or
> on some other comfortably prosperous "rational planet" in the
> Federation like Baldur or Odin. You know out there in the periphery
> there are planets like Uller where other investors, who couldn't seem
> to make their way in a real market, are using a government-granted
> monopoly to squeeze profits out of some backwards world full of
> natives.
>
> Now something in that jury-rigged confidence scheme has gone wrong and
> those confidence men find themselves in a
> life(-and-profit)-threatening pickle.
>
> Do you care?

Would those taxpayers even know?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Notice

> "The Quintons had to leave France about the same time; they were what
> was known as collaborationists." - Paula Quinton (H. Beam Piper),
> _Uller Uprising_

Many Germans stranded in Japan after early September 1945 couldn't go
home either.