I'm not exactly clear what the heck Conrad is advocating, Don....and, believe me, I've been trying to figure it out, but he seems to talk in circles.

What I am questioning is your hysterical overreaction to him which appears to me to be verging on some kind of bizarre obsession. You seem to want to equate him, Conrad, with every form of fascist political evil you can dredge up out of past history, and I've no idea what basis you have for doing that. What exactly has Conrad said or done that terrifies you so?

Your notion that I am showing colorless neutrality is laughable and utterly without foundation. ;-) It's hilarious. I keep hearing it from you and it indicates to me that you simply don't comprehend anything I say...or you're too impatient and intent upon your own arguments to bother even trying to understand what I'm driving at.

What am I colorlessly neutral about when it comes to politics? I detest fascism, I always have despised it, I detest the Republicans, I am utterly against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan whether Bush pushes them or Obama does, I'd like to see the major USA banks that just got bailed out nationalized, and their boards of directors put in jail for defrauding the public. I'd like to see Bush and Cheney on trial as war criminals. You think I'm neutral? Ha! I'm about as neutral as Che Guevara, mister. I despise the political right and the goddamn corporations who engineer war and I long for the day of their utter demise.

But I don't regard Conrad's confused ramblings on this forum as being important enough for anyone to get upset about. It's a tiny tempest in an even tinier teapot. I think you're emotionally addicted to fighting with a few specific individuals on this forum that you've identified as "one of THEM" (the evil people), Don, and that you achieve nothing by so doing except stressing yourself out, stressing others out, blowing off a lot of hot air, and creating longstanding and profitless feuds with a few people that can never be resolved and that won't achieve one useful thing in terms of human rights, free speech or anything else that actually matters.