The letter posted earlier was not written by a 'local leader' or a 'letter writer'.
It was written by a Talmid Chachom and a Rav of one of the largest Shul's in the world, please get your facts straight before spewing your rant.
You might not understand every Rav or every letter but your public disrespect and bashing of Rabbanim and Daas Torah is nauseating.
I see. So only that letter writer has a right to bash other Rabonim and Daas Torah. Some of which are arguably at least as great as he. I know who he was referring to; actually more than one of the great Rabonim in town.
Great Rabbis don't write this way about their colleagues. It doesn't matter if he has the greatest shul, at least in quantity, in the world. No Rabbi talks or writes that way. He must have gotten flack for this. That is the reason for letter 2.
Regardless, if this Rov and his congregation are the most machmir in the world on the Mitzvah of V'nishmartem, does he go on the same campaign about smoking and vaping? Does he blast his congregants who smoke? Does he blast other shuls who allow their congregants to vape? That is much more studied and well proven to be dangerous. Even going on some roller coasters are more dangerous than having a safe minyan. (They are now admitting the ban of these minyanim is an extra-step gezeira). Does he allow his congregants to go to amusement parks? All of a sudden now everyone needs to take on his chumra of V'nishmartem or they suffer from yuhara.
The truth is, I would not mix in or comment how a Rabbi runs his congregation. I even understand why a Rabbi would ban minyonim and that is not my issue. It is the tone of his letters and the bullying tactics which are being used against other Rabbis (which you might not be aware of). There is no place for that.