....the fact is that they created more room that could easily be occupied by the shul. Did they finish the expansion? Of course not. But they certainly started and did a great deal of the work, and showed that it would be very easy and within reach to finish. It's a shame that fear of remote consequences and hatred of the bochurim prevailed over sechel in the "authorities'" response to that work.
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Here's the part I still don't get.
I'll accept that you actually believe in your alternate reality and ideology, where all authority is to be hated and the secret answers you are getting from igros (which you didn't share) are the guiding force behind what was almost a very successful project--supported by a "silent majority"--to expand the incredibly peaceful and calm shul at 770, where, until the moment Mario and Luigi popped out of the underworld, no one has ever been hurt or threatened (the testimony and impressions of other DDF members with known real life identities notwithstanding).
What I don't understand is how you can call this excavation (I'll use whatever term you want) an almost completed job to create another room in the shul. From the dimensions I read and the pictures I saw, the ceiling would be way too low, (5 feet at time of discovery?) So the entire women's section would have to be raised to accommodate it. So digging (or to use your preferred term, removing dirt) out that spot was a tiny part of the proccess, raising the building is so much more.
Now forget the complete lack of permits, electricity, exits or entrances, and destabilizing the whole building.
How can you call it "very easy...to finish?"
You also mention "hatred of the bochurim". If bochurim were involved (and I'm assuming the translation here is yeshiva students. Not bachelors.) wouldn't their administration be relevant? Why would you say
I'm not sure why you're analyzing this story from a bochurim/hanholah lens, as Hanholas Hayeshiva was not involved at all.
Like, if some guys at the Yeshiva Gedolah near me started breaking the wall of the basement of the shul next door, I'd assume people would ask where their Rosh Yeshiva stands on the matter, especially if they say that al pi halacha and the principles of the Yeshiva, they must liberate that cholent from its internment in the kitchen.