Paul, There's been plenty of traffic on scnforum.org and that's the forum Geir's talking about. The blog is something different.
Alanzo, you did NOT break anything and you did not do anything wrong. You were a bit provocative in some respects, but that's part of debate. IMO, you behaved in a restrained manner when all kinds of people were totally fucking with you and attacking you.
You guys know that I've criticized critics many times for the way some of them sometimes behave and dogpile venturing CofS members and Free zoners and such. It happens all too often, IMO. But, if you look at some of the commentary on scnforum.org, you will see that Indie and FZ Scientologists do the same thing when someone with a minority point of view (particularly if that person argues back, pushes some buttons, is kind of mischievous at times) as those others whom I've criticized. I have to ask myself why. (or at least, I want to!) Is it because this is a subject about which people are passionate? Well, yes. But I think you could find that on political fora and I was told by a net friend that some of the computer techie oriented boards sometimes have major flame wars that would make most of the Scn critic ones pale by comparison. So is it the nature of the beast re fora? Probably. But that doesn't make it right.
I wish Geir all the success in the world. He's a very nice guy and I've enjoyed getting to know him a bit. He has to do what he thinks is best not just for other people but for him. I do get that. But I'd be lying if I were to say I wasn't a bit disappointed.
Al, the fact that you want to apologize at all speaks much about your goodness but really, I don't think you did anything wrong, FWIW.