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I sincerely hope you will reconsider.

Someone pointed out, about 675 posts back, that there are indeed subtle and malevolent people who come over here from DU specifically, at the invitation of degenerate personalities like Moby and Michael Moore and the late and very unlamented FR poster Eschoir, a liberal Democratic DC lawyer (is there anything lower?) whose numerous avatars once drove JR to seek relief in a court of equity, to make life difficult for posters like you precisely because of your principles and your ability to articulate them.

Please don't be discouraged by all this into withdrawing from the public forum, even a corner of it like FR. On a personal note, I've been glad to see your posts myself and I know the place -- or rather, the virtual space -- will be poorer without your well-spun electrons.

When the adversaries of well-meaning people try to substitute mere cleverness for virtue, voices like yours are needed to point out the difference.

As for critics of Great Britain, which -- truth in advocacy here -- raised up my mother who fortunately for me decided to take a chance on a Yank, a lot of us noticed when the President of Mexico, so recently feted with pomp and circumstance in America's capital as our newest "best friend" (wot, cried the Canadians -- we're chopped liver now?), retired to his ranch while columns of smoke trailed over Manhattan and the Pentagon; but the prime minister of Great Britain stuffed his pockets full of brass knuckles and ran toward trouble instead, and was sitting in the gallery of the House of Representatives when President Bush addressed the nation on the terrorist attacks.

Funny how, when things get ugly, the same old faces always show up.

Behind walls of oak or Leigh-Mallory's big wings, Britain has always been safe from tyrants, and anyone who reaches out a claw for Britain gets to withdraw a bloody stump. That's always been your reasonable policy, mate -- and you know it's ours, too. Will it be stumps all around, then? Right, who's next?

Please reconsider, and stick around, friend. Tony Blair did.