Okay, folks, I think this has run its course. It'd be okay to let it run out of its own steam except that we're now introducing items in an effort to politicize the topic as opposed to trying to discuss it sans politics.
Brian, thank you. I really do appreciate your leeway here. At a time when it seems we all needed to talk about it, I'm very grateful that we were allowed this safe haven. We'd be hard pressed to find as civil a forum anywhere else on the web. Brian, you need to confirm this but I think the leeway stemmed from the magnitude of the particular incident and not from any permanent loosening of TUG's normal restrictions on debate of contentious topics. In other words, it's back to normal from here on out. Right? Right. Good.
One last thing - the topic in the other thread is the press coverage and not this incident. Please do not continue this discussion in that thread.