Granted, it is sometimes possible to prove a negative. But it is not logically required of the respondent.

As I pondered rummaging around in another country and trying to locate the egg on their faces, it occurs to me that this might be equivalent to the matter addressed in the Fourth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution: unreasonable search and seizure. Who's going to decide whether or not there is probable cause? The U. N. Security Council? Or George W. Bush and Company?

Oh, crap!!! Here we go again!

By the way, not to be a nasty old pinch-penny, but since the American taxpayer is having to buy the last round, who's going to pick up the tab for this one?

Don (heavy sigh) Firth