Fatman has been in league with Vitalik since the get-go. He knew Vitaliks sins coz Vitalik recognized him as a holy farther to whom he confessed not only of wrongdoing but of everything he had on his hugely innovative mind including but not limited to, knowledge about insider trading, price manipulations and the truth about the dao hacker. Lets say if fatman knew that Vitalik hacked the DAO which spurred the fork, he, fatman, would very fast come to realization that vitalik has plans on ETC.
Best result of that fork is, that all those nuts have been moving away from ETH and now are rallying round ETC.
It has been such a nice clean up operation.
I've often thought that. All the really nutty zealots are now outside of the community rather than inside. It was like taking a potent laxative.