Jim: I am not sure what point you are making here; I honestly think you are a bit confused by the experiences you relate, with which I am fully sympathetic and which I can well see will have influenced your attitudes & opinions.

What I can't make out is whether you, yourself are explicitly recognising and admitting that this background & these experiences are responsible for your entrenched attitudes, leading to your inability to judge the truth or otherwise of the SPECIFIC ALLEGATIONS with which this thread is concerned, objectively & on their own merits. Or are you leaving it to me to point this syndrome of attitudes and responses out to you because you haven't recognised its effects for yourself?

Whichever, I genuinely believe this to be the case.

~M~