Brookfield's profile says he is Private Messaging as of 5:29PM. When I was banned, I was unable to send private messages nor even access my User Control Panel to do so, how can he?
It really seems like he is still not a normal member with the same privileges we have and David has given him special permissions to send messages whilst banned. I know this is possible from my vBulletin admin panel demo.
What a farce.