1) The fact that Freetrade was removed so easily (took only a few hours) shows that all the claims (including my own a few months ago) that he has the power to do whatever he wishes with the voting, were wrong.
2) I'm sure that even Freetrade himself understands that the coin needs active officers and since he was AWOL for a while, the community did the right thing and replaced him with an energatic & motivated CEO (which comes to show that the community is very much alive and participates in the voting)
3) I'm absolutely certain that Freetrade won't call for a trade stop as this is not big enough news... He already contributed a lot to the coin and this step only made sense at the current time. I'm also certain that when he finds the time to come back to the coin, he will be reelected easily to the CTO / CEO role.
4) Newmine - I liked your idea to motivate idle officers (Fasan and Belltown) by running against them and giving out the salary to the community - but you're way wrong here and this is simply FUD.
Let's let this thread die peacefully and not try to raise panic... Are you trying to buy cheap?

Good luck.