Swampy, great story (I love reading the backstory of what was going on while I was but rising up in CN from my newbie state), but I'd like to correct one of the finer points, one in which I was very intimately involved with.
The impeachment was more because due process was not followed. In fact, the two of us who pushed hard for impeachment both wanted the MDP gone (Atlashill can attest to this fact) but also felt that people should've been more pissed that the proper processes weren't followed. Since then... I learned that charters which are limiting suck major $@! and also regret that mistake, for it was arguably the #1 reason why that MDP was never canceled (since VL didn't want to do a 3rd vote).