So the old moderation team members have suddenly and simultaneously lost the ability to talk to us.
First they make rules specifically to ban any thread that questions moderation at all and paints them as anything but the second coming of jesus, then they get to work banning anyone who they deem a threat to their image of perfect, flawless moderators.
Crusade and Thingie were moderators and had more knowledge about what was going on behind the scenes more than anyone else and even testified in public about what was going on, they spoke out and thus were considered a threat and were removed as soon as a decent excuse became avaliable.
Crusade's ban had nothing to do with "racist remarks" and had everything to do with him being someone who was willing to testify against moderation. If the ban had anything to do with racist remarks then he would have been banned while the old rules were in place and within days of posting it.