If you wish you can relate everything that people talk about to folk music, or sex, or politics, or baseball or aphids. So please, please stop using the silly argument that "Folk is about everything therefore we can talk about everything and we will still be talking about folk." I'm not saying this is a lousy topic, clearly I'm reading it so I was interested enough to look, but it is not about folk or blues music its about people and ethical considerations. Please don't argue that folk and blues is about people and ethical considerations, ALL artistic expression is about people and their concerns, only the language is different. Forums or discussions where all the guidelines about content go out the window end up being led by personalities, good or bad but always somehow forceful, not topics. TTCM's imputation of cliquishness probably stems form this.

So to get back to topic. I do not consider myself to be part of a clique, I don't think of myself as one of the forceful posters in this forum, more often I feel I am ignored and powerless, but I was taught that you must always speak truth to power even when that can be difficult, so I'm speaking my truth to the powers here on this forum.