Thanks for putting motives in mine, a standard practise of yourself, CarolC.

I merely observed your frequent tactic of muddying an issue or blunting the point of a thread by introducing your pre-arranged array of societal grievances, thus distracting from the original point.

Your frequent accusations of others' cynicism is actually a display of your own. It is far easier to make a blanket appeal to human rights in general than to address the denail of human rights to one group of poeple in particular, in this case the people who wish to exercise their rights to democracy in Iran. In other forums you have defended the words of Ahmadinajad, and the fairness of the voting process in Iran, ignoring the fact that Iranian elections are overseen by an unelected board of religious judges, in essence a power elite.