Steve Gardham: "Okay, I've seen one of the threads that has just been closed.
Points
I personally don't think this particular forum is the right place for discussing judiciary matters no matter how strongly people feel.

If they were to be discussed they are surely nothing to do with folk music. Yes, Rolf was involved on the fringes of the folk scene in Britain but as far as we know these issues do not concern his folk involvement."

However, 'folk music' VERY OFTEN incorporates social issues, so methinks it not inappropriate to 'hash out' social/political issues.

Though my personal outlook is in agreement with the lyrics of this folk/rock song...especially the fourth line, third verse(actually all the third verse).

For What It's Worth

    'For What It's Worth'

There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away
We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

Enjoy(?)

GfS