Looks like this is what the board are trying to achieve to dampen the demo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_ruleProbably the oldest trick in the book and you and the trust members must get off the fence or your heads out of the sand.
Whatever it may be.
In politics and sociology, divide and rule (derived from Latin divide et impera) (also known as divide and conquer) is a combination of political, military and economic strategy of gaining and maintaining power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into chunks that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy. In reality, it often refers to a strategy where small power groups are prevented from linking up and becoming more powerful, since it is difficult to break up existing power structures