You've pretty well summed up my thoughts on the whole bloody mess.
Things should have never gotten to the point where the witnesses did what they did. It's mismanagement and short-sightedness.
I can't read Ned's or Justin's minds but I can see the fruit of their actions and it's callous and uncaring and selfish...IOW's capitalism! And saying that doesn't make me a communist as I reject that the state should own the means of production.