@atpg: As hinted at in my small game, I will be extremely busy this week, so 1 post a day max will have to do.
On Bounty hunters in general, if they are willing to work for the town, and have wealth victory condition or survive, then they will so easily work for the mafia too, and 'sit on the fence', or play both sides. They IMO need to die regardless. I'm up for using them if they are willing, but we need to be cautious of them being double agents.
If buddha is darkside aligned (likely, from the scan and no denial), then its highly unlikely he has an innocent VC. If I add my continued susipicion from previous days (gut, and his bandwagon vote on daveshack), then I will vote: Buddhafish.
I'm not sure of the case on Earthling. But I completely disagree with autolynching Ninja if Earthling flips town, likewise for Mergle.