NPO were at the top of the pecking order in 2008. They were the main bad guys or antagonists, if you will. The various blocs at that time were arranged in such a way that NPO had their fingers in a lot of pies. So NPO had their circle of close allies who, while having a nice cushy position near the top, were dependent on NPO for political power: see IRON, GGA, MCXA, etc. This state of affairs was carefully cultivated by some intelligent NPO FA strategists. I would have done exactly the same thing if I had been in that position at that time and had wanted to play the game that way. One Vision operated by the same modus operandi that NPO did (for example, EZI and threatening those who dissented on the OWF) and this was what VP was opposed to. So it's not accurate to say that VP was just an anti-NPO movement. They were also at war with (if you can call a guerilla style nine month crusade which was primarily waged on the OWF at war) with these other Q and 1V alliances as well. The reason that their main adversary was the NPO was that the NPO was the most powerful alliance at the time.
That having been said, the point is moot really. VP disbanded and the members went their own ways. Most of them have left the game now, and the ones who remain are members of many different alliances with many different political views. VP was a kind of fusion between dissatisfied UJP players and NpO sympathisers in the first place. Now that UJP-type alliances have come to control the game and NpO has fallen out with them, nothing like VP will ever exist again, especially in an age when moralism is dead. It's a bit of a shame really, it was fun while it lasted, but all good things come to an end and ultimately there are more important things in life than an internet game in its final stages.
Rubbish. The era of good guys and bad guys is long over.. stop trying to fit a completely new political dynamic into an old framework.