I think it was been well versed here already, but my ultimate frustration with the decision made is primarily the fact that there are some punishments in recent memory that felt too harsh but head office and the appeals committee stated "Rule book is what it is, we can't retroactively change it." but in this scenario we have more or less been told, "Yes the rulebook says this, but I arbitrarily have decided it did not actually refer to this scenario, therefore we are not following the rulebook."