Little Hawk has given a concise summary of my meaning, he is perhaps the most insightful person that I have ever had the good fortune to encounter.

You should all be ashamed of yourselves, to denigrate someone so obviously fair minded and pacific.
He is a much better person than I.....you bite him and he will patiently attempt to explain his meaning or defuse the aggro with a touch of the whimsical humour that is all his own.
You bite me.... and I bite your fuckin' head off.
That's how I am, brought up the hard way; and try as I might I dont I'll ever change.

I don't really think you are stupid people always requiring explanations, you all know what I mean, your stance is just another way of giving yourselves the opportunity to twist my words and meaning.

Mr Peekstock says that I stated "AIDS was a gay disease" that is a downright lie. I cited a group of homosexuals in Los Angeles who were campaigning to have AIDS re- designated as a "Gay disease", so that funds and energy can be concentrated on the link between homosexual practice and Aids,and hopefully a cure related to that link, found.

What I did say, was that the link was obvious, Keith earier produced figures which suggested that if homosexuals comprised 10% of the population, they were 400 times more likely to contact the disease.
Homosexuals in fact, make up 2-3% of the population, I leave you to draw your own conclusions.

I am indeed familiar with Phil Ochs excellent song, he expresses the same sentiments as I do, yet I hear not a word against him from the "mob".

"the consequences of bringing a dangerous and destructive lifestyle into mainstream society."
We are travelling full steam ahead integrating homosexuals into mainstream society, without any medical study being undertaken as to why the link between homosexual practice and aids is so massive, homosexual marriage, fostering of children by homosexuals ect are all devices to normalise homosexuality, before we know anything about the medical consequences. As I have said before on many occasions, people who engage in incest or polygamy are refused their "right to marry", the first group on health grounds....are they basically any different from homosexuals?

Don.. correct me if I am wrong, but did the Dems not support the invasion of Iraq en masse and did they not continue to support funding of the war well after it became obvious that Saddam had been "set up" and the prosecution of the war had become a disaster?
After it had become obvious that there would be no WMDs and no new sparkling "democracy"?
After it had become obvious that we "Liberals" would leave Iraq in a much worse state than when we entered it?...and that was after eight years of sanctions.

In conclusion, I don't need to defend my left wing credentials to you people...you only play at politics, you wear the liberal label, but in reality you are more wedded to the system than the neocons you despise so much.
I've lived and bled for socialism, risked losing my job and my home for being a "Commie"......just like some of the old time folkies to pretend to revere....Hawk is so right! you are a half dozen Don Quixotes on your knackered steeds tilting at windmills.....and if you need anyone to explain that analogy just go ask yer maw!