LM, a few weeks back you told me that you thought the effort in January to ratchet down the tensions on the Illegal Alien threads had been fairly successful, and I concurred.
That's still my impression, and I wonder if it's still yours?
If so, then a thread to that effect probably should have been posted. It didn't occur to me to mention it to you at the time, but an acknowledgement of the efforts of a lot of people in the forum to change things for the better would be a good thing.