BaNosser, fade away if you must but that would be a shame. I don't think anyone will dispute anything you said in your post as far as the facts are concerned. I think gcduck would agree (correction welcome), along with sge and borredo, even though it has been vehemently and quite unfairly claimed that sge and borredo support the BoD, simply because they don't see the point of attacking the BoD on anonymous public forums. I think that they, like me, see any attempt to unseat BoD members by any means other than the usual democratic ones as pointless at best and counter-productive at worst.
Furthermore, to label anyone as "apologists" is to indulge in revisionism, plain and simple. And, to unfairly label posters here as "apologists for the BoD" is to indulge in that same kind of emotional name-calling that led you to set up your Yahoo Board in the first place. Seems to me that agoracom is the place to turn for sober second thought these days, if you don't mind me saying so.