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A group calling itself the 'Children of Liberty' made a public statement concerning the Alliance and what they call its “rampant hypocrisy” on 07 August 3301. The group claims that a "huge gulf" exists between the Alliance's professed goals and values and the reality present in many of its member systems.<ref name=":5" />
A group calling itself the 'Children of Liberty' made a public statement concerning the Alliance and what they call its “rampant hypocrisy” on 07 August 3301. The group claims that a "huge gulf" exists between the Alliance's professed goals and values and the reality present in many of its member systems.<ref name=":5" />


"For an organization that purports to be devoted to the ideals of liberty and self-determination", the release stated, "the Alliance certainly tolerates a great deal of despotism and tyranny within its own borders. It's about time the Alliance addressed the rampant hypocrisy of allowing dictatorships – as well as other restrictive, undemocratic forms of government – membership into their supposed bastion of freedom and liberty."<ref name=":5" />
''"For an organization that purports to be devoted to the ideals of liberty and self-determination", the release stated, "the Alliance certainly tolerates a great deal of despotism and tyranny within its own borders. It's about time the Alliance addressed the rampant hypocrisy of allowing dictatorships – as well as other restrictive, undemocratic forms of government – membership into their supposed bastion of freedom and liberty."''<ref name=":5" />


The statement went on to list a number of Alliance-sponsored autocracies in various systems, and called on the Alliance and its supporters to sponsor serious democratic reform in said systems by backing democratically-aligned factions over autocratic ones.<ref name=":5" />
The statement went on to list a number of Alliance-sponsored autocracies in various systems, and called on the Alliance and its supporters to sponsor serious democratic reform in said systems by backing democratically-aligned factions over autocratic ones.<ref name=":5" />