User blog comment:Sgt. S.S./Why I support the Empire/@comment-4715168-20120323010009/@comment-217.43.233.47-20120327023737

Actually its not, everyone did it before the war and no one in skyrim cared but when the storm cloaks started up, the thalmor made a point of showing up in skyrim and really cracking down on it (cause lets face most of thalmor see them selfs too great to be in a place like skyrim), it was actually an npc who pointed this out forgot who.