I don't think these people have ever threatened you or your livelihood in any way.

Irrelevant.

Do you think that the meat you eat grows on a tree behind the supermarket?

What an idiotic question.

a whitecoat hunt that hasn't been practiced in thirty years and which has been illegal for 18

So why is it happening now?

much worse outrages being committed by your own country

It's not my own country -- are you so stupid to think I make policy here?

Whatever.