Staying silent instead of taking the opportunity to clear the situation and to prevent further hostility? Staying silent when a threat has been made about your destruction if you stay silent? That is like shouting "Shoot me in the head!". Your logic is amusing.
As I see, the ECG have and have had their opportunities, several opportunities to deny said "reckless accusations". Apparently they seem not to deny, rather accept them, proudly, so to say, and with no little disrespect towards the Elders it seems.
I was never denying their malevolent behaviour against the Corsairs. I know they've been collaborating with the ZA, even. The point that's being addressed, though, is not about ECG, but the Elders, who disregarded the more evidently supported report of an indi/low ranked Order| member and proceeded to "roleplay troll" him without barely even addressing the subject of the report itself. They rather focused on traits belonging to the character of said indi/low ranked Order| player, while the Order| faction leader's post which had very vague evidence, went through without much critical thinking on the Elders' part.
It's basically an accusation of kissassery and bias between the Elders and Order| official faction leader, so to say. ECG's eventual motives judged from the screenshots aren't of much important; the fact they're very unclear in them is what matters, yet they're taken for granted.