The Tcherionthetopover says...

   Let us assume that a certain chasidishe rov is found guilty as charged.  Then what?  He has already surrendered his public offices, and his own home is untouchable by the communal authorities.  He cannot be imprisoned by any beis din, nor can he be given community service, nor can he be ordered to step down as the rov of his own kehilla.  He cannot be ordered to leave town, however desirable this may or may not be, and although he could be placed under a cherem, no-one would be obliged to adhere to it. 
   The question of compensation could possibly arise, although it didn't need a special beis din from abroad - at ludicrous expense - to pronounce on this aspect or to determine amounts, and he could be stripped of the title "rov", which also doesn't require a Sanhedrin.  All in all then, blogging about this particular subject is bitul zman.  The real issues of the day are being side-lined by this sordid saga.
   Punters down at the Slap & Tickle have been reduced to describing themselves as "machmir" on various issues, such as the GG eruv.  They are not undermining the LBD, they are just "being machmir". 
   This is not true.  Various rabbonim from the UOHC actually declared that the eruv was ossur, must not be used.  DCE had already paskened that it could be used.  He didn't order people to use it, so that those who are machmir don't have to; but he has not forbidden it. 
   Reb Chuna and others, on the other hand, took away the option to be machmir - they attempted to overrule an internationally renowned dayan and talmid chochom by declaring it to be breaking shabbos if one used the eruv.  This is going a bit further down the line than just being machmir.
   Ironically this undermining of DCE has landed on its head, as this esteemed gentleman has now been involved in the case bringing down his one-time critics.  Happy purim!!
   But all of this is somewhat by the way.  My real point is that banning the eruv was a "reactionary" ruling by Union rabbis who cannot move away from Jewish life as it was lived in pre-war Europe.  Most of their rulings are in this vein.  DCE was paskening as Head of the LBD, which is rooted in "present-day" Jewish life.  Herein lies the difference between the Union and Anglo-Jewish orthodoxy.  It is all very well to knock the mainstream because its values are not those of the Union, but at the end of the day the values of the latter organisation are not above question by any means.  It is just that its members have opted NOT to question or challenge their rabbonim for fear of being put on a hit-list.  "Machmir" my foot! 
   Jewish life doesn't need to be as stringent as the far right have made it.  We don't need to tell bochurim who are have trouble with emunah that they must control their yetzer or that they are possibly suffering from OCD (as per "Seeking Solutions" in Hamodia a few weeks ago, which I wrote about at the time).  It is okay not to be a malach.  When we want to be maikil on anything we give ourselves a heter, so we can stop being so super-human to appease the rabbonim.  Then we will have fewer sexually malfunctioning individuals needing/offering marriage counselling, or people seeking pleasure where they will or falling into child abuse; we will have homosexuals living their lives, and straight people - for whom homosexuality is proscribed (ie forbidden) - being good straight people; and we will have youth looking happy and relaxed instead of always "over their shoulders" (for fear of not being guilty about something).
   Anyone who thinks this blog has gone too far can retire now back to the Slap & Tickle.  Everyone else - l'chaim! (And here's to Women Not Being Pencilled Out of Pictures in the Yiddishe Press For Heaven's Sake).