I respect your position and agree without the arbitration forum up and running, we're missing a critically important key for this system to function properly, but I'd also so we _do_ have something different in place from other blockchains in that we can temporarily prevent these funds from moving around until the forum is set up and a ruling is made. That's technically something we're capable of doing as BPs to protect that property which is inline with the spirit of the "law" of this blockchain, even if **all** the tools to do it aren't in place yet, and we'd prefer not to do anything at all until those tools are in place.

Once the arbitration forum is in place, any attempt to do something like this in the future would be clearly fraudulent and the BPs participating would be voted out. As it stands now, I think it shows the BPs do actually care about protecting property and creating time for the arbitration system to exist and respond. To tell a victim of theft or fraud that the provable evidence they provided is irrelevant because a bureaucratic system isn't in place yet is a hard pill to swallow. If the token holders want us to take that hard stance, we can and will, but it's a tough one considering we have tools in place for a short delay while things get organized for a proper ruling.

Edit: Relates to this discussion: <a href="https://steemit.com/eos/@lukestokes/let-s-make-the-eos-constitution-an-actual-contract">Let's Make the EOS Constitution an Actual Contract</a>