Well it now doesn't matter whether Justin and his crooked witnesses thought they were doing something honest or that code was law:

Even if it did matter, Justin was very strong in his language that he thought there was theft by hackers taking place, both when his stake was frozen to try forcing him into a dialogue on his statements regarding destroying Steem. Then again as he compared what he did (a false comparison) in outright stealing Steem to the idea that the airdrop for the new chain excluding others was a form of theft. He is on record multiple times explaining he was seeing theft everywhere, so by his own admission he is a thief. None of which is comparable, although I do wish instead of freezing his stake the fork to a new chain could have been the first move. But even with that move, it wasn't an attempt to steal anything. It was more of a WTF did you just say you were doing to this chain and our community with stake that was supposed to be for development, not to rule.

The whole thing is sickening, and I do hope that Justin reaps the karma from his actions. The judicial system here has a track record of equating justice with wealth. A side problem for those stolen from is how to proceed without doxxing themselves (if they prefer anonymity) to the world. This is wrong on so many levels it makes me sick.