Maybe one of the mods can move this thread to the Politics and Religion forum. I admit I too am guilty for helping forward the political angle of this thread but I'll not post anything more on that until the thread is moved... and even then I'm not sure I will continue to participate. I wonder if there is a way to split an existing thread so that once it has strayed outside the boundaries and has established itself in a new light, we could simply move all posts beyond a certain point into a new thread.