Anyone with moral clarity has a conscience.
gator has moral clarity.
I suspect gator is hiding, out of shame and embarassment for all that he wrought.
Personally, I always found that 'Moral clarity' schtick to be one of the most irritatingly stupid things about CU. Particularly as personified by Gator, it usually didn't have anything whatsoever to do with morality or clarity, just arrogance, ego, and an apparently-baseless feeling of superiority.
As far as the second part goes, I have never seen anything to indicate that Gator was actually
capable of shame or embarassment...every time he laid a big steaming turd on the rug (which was frequently) he would loudly proclaim it was the morally correct thing to do and the rest of us simply lacked the moral clarity and sophisitcation to understand the 'plain-spoken native truth' of his act...whether it be for various bannings, his hatred of Israel, gratuitously insulting Kharis, his idiotic pot-stirring on the Civil War, or what-have-you.