Several points need to be made. Since no one else is doing it, I'll bite the bullet.
1. Icterus isn't young, either by strict chronology or in maturational terms. He's older than the overwhelming majority of the commenters. More mature, too, by a long shot.
2. He is certainly not a fan of CI-style conspiracy theories, that much is clear. But how many of the conspiracy theories popular hereabouts have even a whiff of substance? Answer: precious few.
3. Is he adamantly opposed to entertaining any conspiracy theories, even fact-based ones? Answer: Who knows? Certainly not I! Look at it this way: how many such get advanced hereabouts? One a year? One every two years? Fewer?
Of course, as anyone who has looked at my older comments can see, I am by no means averse to regarding Jєωιѕн subterfuge and sabotage as the great unspoken and unspeakable facts behind essentially every undesirable aspect of modern life. So, yes, clearly I wish that Icterus had been rather more sympathetic to this concern. Still, since I hadn't amassed the data to embrace and support this outlook till I had reached my early fifties, I think it would be uncharitable of me, at the very least, to sneer at those younger than I am who still haven't had the sand rubbed out of their otherwise bright morning eyes.
(It's odd, too, what happens when people hereabouts who seem willing to indulge virtually any fantasy see one of their pet organizations called out for wilfully evading hard facts. This happened recently when I suggested that a certain hyperlong, poorly researched, and dreadfully written "article" sourced from the radical sedevacantists at Novus Ordo Watch was worthless because the article blamed all the present-day institutional Church's problems on Masons and liberals and global warming and sunspots … and essentially everything BUT the descendants of the mob that chose Barabbas from column B instead of Our Blessed Lord. The sanctimonious howls from every self-anointed Internet Pope around here can still be heard. Most of the screamers were the same ones whose Twitter friends agree 100% with them that planetary epicycles are waaaaay cool and wasn't that horrid Copernicus just a creep?)
4. I could easily spell out an item 4 and 5 and 6, but I think I've advanced enough material to make the only real point I want to make. It is this: I think that Icterus's alleged crimes are all petty stuff—misdemeanor material at most. Even his fits of ill temper, more evident of late than formerly, can be laid at the feet of the smugness and arrogant ignorance that regularly greeted everything he wrote. Some of the resident halfwits here drove him (as they sometimes drive me, too) to resort to less-than-temperate speech. But face facts, ladies and gentlemen: when one spends too much time in the company of folks who scorn introspection, who treat plausibility and probability as synonymous, who spout truisms and call them truths, and who tart up their crassness and know-nothingism in the fancy dress of faux-piety, it's all too easy to write things one regrets.
Frankly, I think Icterus doesn't mind being given the boot. (Cf. Ecclesiasticus 27:13 [in Douay; 27:12 virtually everywhere else].) Until I too leave, croak, or am similarly kicked out, however, I will miss him. I frequently didn't agree with him, but he was seldom dumb and never dull. May the good Lord protect him!