GPA neutrality dispute

Facts / Documents
Incident logs, made available by Bilrow.

A non-GPA user, using the name Bilrow[AIDS], was silently sitting in the public IRC channel of the Green Protection Agency on October, 13th, 2007. Two GGA Triumvirs, Bilrow[GGA] and Jonathan_Brookbank then logged in and asked the GPA moderator OverlordXenu to take action against Bilrow[AIDS]; the GGA position was that the name itself was offending towards the GGA's Bilrow. OverlordXenu (not a member of GPA Government) was the GPA moderator present in IRC at that time; he did not ban Bilrow[AIDS], under his interpretation of what the GPA Neutrality required in such a circumstance. Xenu's position was that the name was not offending.

For this position of the GPA moderator, the GPA has been accused of allowing OOC insults in its IRC channel; as a result, the Grand Global Alliance, the New Pacific Order and the New Polar Order pulled out of GPA's Declaration of Neutrality. The Independent Republic of Orange Nations later pulled out of the DoN over a separate incident, but cited this event as a contributing factor toward their decision.

The GPA later responded with many apologies; Xenu actions were examined and condemned by the GPA Government, and Xenu himself was expelled from the GPA.

Two days after the incident was resolved, The Phoenix Federation decided to withdraw from the GPA Declaration of Neutrality too, because of the incident.

Further details
The alleged offence, according to the GGA parties involved, consisted in the very "Bilrow[AIDS]" name. At the moment the GGA started blaming the GPA, Bilrow[AIDS] had in fact not said anything at all, though he and other users later engaged in what the GGA also called reprehensible actions / statements.

GPA Neutrality contested
Said GGA Officials also accused the GPA of no longer being neutral, for allowing attacks against foreign leaders to be perpetrated in their IRC Channel. Antonio Salovega VI, GPA MoFA at the time, disclosed that the GPA cabinet opinion was that Xenu had been guilty of aiding, or abetting hostilities. This has been interpreted as a confirmation of the GGA's accusations by some, but as proof that the GPA adhered to its neutrality standards (by punishing the offending member) by others.