LoD were pacted with you for a long time I believe, and they were not attacking you. I didn't think BL had any enemies in the North either until they broke the NAP with Phoenix?
I will stick to the point I raised earlier, he wasn't active, insulted the alliance on his return and declared he didn't care what happened to the cities and whilst I didn't see how it panned out I guess there would have been different views on it.
1) Would you think he could have successfully managed it - we saw nothing to suggest he could manage anything which is a shame because I believe he can play
2) Would you listen to the demands from a player who had acted in the way he did? If it had been my place I would have pm'd him and got it off the forum but by the time I logged in again he had left the alliance.
The point you raised earlier is that you would be miffed if your alliance did not listen to your choice on where your cities went if you had to leave is interesting not just your view but I have played in a number of worlds and despite the general consensus in Paros I haven't seen many alliances supporting a decision that one of their players will handover cities to another alliance.
However as this seems to run on and on I have looked at the facts.
He had 12 cities, on the 10th September he gave a city to Phoenix
sereton from the alliance Black Legion has lost the city PAM x to pamela13. on 2013-09-10 at 15:24
On the 11th 2 cities were conquered by Black Legion prior to him leaving the alliance, the first was;
sereton from the alliance Black Legion has lost the city 43 Sereton Base to ScottPimpin. on 2013-09-11 at 09:04 (over 12 hours later).
A further city went to an ex LOD member in BL around 10 minutes earlier than this post, when he posted this message and saw what was happening in his command list that is wasn't fair that BL didn't respect his wishes this is what happened with the remaining 8 cities;
2013-09-12 04:41:03 43 Pet055 482|368 BatVanio sereton Truculence 8526
2013-09-11 20:29:13 43 D. ESMZ 410|322 Alfredik sereton Black Legion 7956
2013-09-11 18:27:09 43 LadyShow 405|324 ladyShow sereton Phoenix 10258
2013-09-11 17:15:28 53 RHOKO 511|347 Tagitus sereton Phoenix 10276
2013-09-11 17:04:46 43 Guitar Heaven 486|349 jolietjake2 sereton Phoenix 9465
2013-09-11 14:16:34 43 18 ShawCity 499|385 007BADBOY001 sereton Black Legion 8063
2013-09-11 13:34:37 43 depasmd 408|344 depasmd sereton Phoenix 9905
2013-09-11 13:23:11 43 Paros West 412|347 Vloedramp sereton Phoenix
Now I have suggested that it was fashionable to blame BL for everything wrong in the world (and Naxos ;-)) but does this look like Black Legion immediately decided lets have them all (remember the times he left the alliance and posted this message.
I like the emotive plea;
Although some are clearly claimed by other people, they do not respect my decision, and they are taking them all.
Is that actually true? Is that what was actually happening when he posted or do we actually have someone who had a temper tantrum and decided to post with an ulterior motive?