The point is. this law is aimed directly at all kinds of other people, not just those who go in for whatver we might mean by folk music. In this respect we are part of an ethnic majority, made up of all the people of all sorts who are going to find their way of life interered with.

The trouble is, until it's too late, nobody seems to believe it's for real, and that it is likely to affect them. And that goes for most folkies in my experience.