[JesseK]

Heh, this isn't 'war'. It's a robotics forum. Sure, it's a place to air out dirty laundry from time to time, but to 'wage war' against FIRST is to undermine the entire reason you volunteered in the first place ... right? So what you don't see eye to eye with the organization in everything it does. It isn't the first, and won't be the last. Such is life as an engineer, and you should learn to get over it.

Of course this is only my menial, unofficial, ambiguous, and otherwise fully c.y.a.'ed and caveat'ed opinion. It's even slightly uninformed because after the first paragraph I thought "dear God, it's another rant that goes on for ages" ... so I didn't even read the rest.