If either of you had asked me in advance if the messaging hierarchy gave elevated peers the power to isolate nodes I could have cleared up a lot of false conclusions before you started jumping to them.
You didn't answer my question about ordering. You mentioned that ordering doesn't matter; I say ordering is the only thing which does matter.
edit: working through the following will be informative:
* Given some historical data transaction data for this system, how can any given node joining the network objectively judge that what they're being presented with is not fraudulent data? If you can answer that without having to resort to asking other nodes the correct state, then we can talk more seriously about your design.