Linden Lab had been working quietly for months to solidify their legal case against Woodbury University, aided in part by the League and the information we had gathered. If the promise by Bellino to Linden Lab to change and sanitize the Woodbury University presence in Second Life and stop the active support of known criminal elements within their midst had been upheld, none of what happened to Woodbury would have transpired.

In knowledge that action by Linden Lab was a likelihood, Bellino and friends orchestrated a “hit” against the Justice League, hoping to ruin their reputation with Linden Lab and the public and relieve the pressure by silencing the League. This backfired, resulting in the loss of everything – their estate, their right to represent the real world Woodbury University, their SLChan board, and the right of those in charge to even access the grid.

It is true that consequences cannot be evaded. But in this case, it was obviously the Woodbury gangleaders who had to be made to answer for their actions, not the League. The community at large seems to be experiencing a new renaissance now that its people are not expending noteworthy portions of their available resources in the daily management of Woodbury troublemakers, and hearts are light everywhere we go.

The public reaction toward the League has been surprisingly good in the aftermath. The Woodbury sockpuppets have been very successful in the public portrayal of the League as being the primary source of their woes. When Woodbury fell, rightly or not, the public attributed its utter destruction to the efforts of the League. We’re being hailed as the heroes of the grid, thanks in large part to this.

In this case, right makes might.