We don’t need name-calling which distracts from the discussion. Related precedents do tend to get weighed into the picture. Is this absolutely cookie cutter? Well no, in the sense that Bellei was a gingerbread man and Cruz is a round cookie, but otherwise it looks like it.
I offer my sincere and heartfelt apology to traderrob6. I spoke my mind out of emotion and frustration, and agree that the insult was uncalled for. I repent, and truly am sorry. traderrob6 is likely an exceptionally intelligent person, skilled, wise, and rational. That he has a blind spot on this point is understandable, common, and innocently arrived at. We all have blind spots, and as a matter of sticking on labels, I too am an idiot, likely on many issues.
But not on this issue.