I guess the past few responses to me have made it clear that people on this thread don't want to discuss or solve things, but merely make strawmen and misrepresent the reasonable statements of others.
It would have been quite different if you came here and instead and said: here are the technical reasons why I and some Developers of the Bitcoin protocol feel that Op_return 80 is unwarranted, why we are not partial to Counterparty as a protocol, and supported this with actual discussion of technical facts.
The fact that you hold certain positions within the community is no doubt, and should continue to be on account of the positive role you play in the community, but it certainly should not be used as leverage to empower yourself above others and excuse yourself from any reasonable presentation of facts.
Instead I think that you came to this forum basically using very strong words
Victims,
Abuse, the pronoun
Us to phrase
your arguments - these are
not strawmen, this is the attitude that you and in part Jgarzik adopted for addressing the members of this forum, users of the Bitcoin protocol, users of the Counterparty protocol, and it's developers.