as much as it pains me to say as a former member of old IRON (with despite everything fond memories) the Optional Defense Network, an old name for an old image, it was optional by choice, it choose to stick to its democratic roots, and choose it's path not by poor choices at the time or poor FA. the current IRON that we all once respected is not this alliance. Sister Midnight, Krash, Shan, even Fensterbaby and obviously Rab would not have gone this route.
it's sad to see such a respected alliance fall from grace so quickly, with that said much of this "outrage" is just for show, ODN activly planned against IRON in the prelude to Karma, and so have many others. the bad thing is though, IRON gave them a chance to put on a show.