Calling them silly names doesn't accomplish much, but don't think for a second that the vast majority of them are anything but unethical opportunists. They are harming their fellow pilots at TSA and thoughout the industry and for what? A little short-term selfish gain for themselves.
The original freedom airlines guys (FAGs for short) took upgrades and bigger equipment out of seniority for a number of months until Mesa ALPA was able to get freedom under scope. The fags and every other pilot at Mesa is now living with the contractual sacrifices that were made to get the scope that was necessitated by this handful of deviants. The rest of the regional industry is suffering as numerous companies try to baseline their operations and labor costs to the "Mesa Standard".
None of these people have any excuse, least of all ignorance. During the freedom battle, students from Mesa's PFT program were offered jobs at freedom...even the majority of these 250 hour kids knew enough to NOT take a freedom job, even though they had no other aviation employment prospects. If they knew better, what excuse does an ATP have?