man your tact is quite brilliant, trying to praise one set of people while quickly labeling another without knowing any of the intricacies of a place or people. Genius strategy, you should work for the state department.
If you want to know who runs the place just ask around at the next show instead of posting anonymously to a board. This way you actually get to meet people instead of just looking at them and deciding what their intentions are.
You are making one hell of a commute to support these groups (which is rad), don't diminish your enjoyment of it by pissing people off.