A most excellent and inspired posting, Great FoW...a classic really, one of your best. I sincerely hope that you and the like-minded citizens of your once-great republic will be able to reclaim your land and send those who would deter you packing off to, oh, I dunno, Belgium or something. (not to imply that you would forcibly send them there, but rather anticipating that they would flee on their own accord, the bureaucracy being so convivial.) Or they could come to the states and register as democrats. No, I'd rather not even kid about that. You are courageous, gifted, and astute, and if it were in my power I'd make you an honorary U.S. citizen. (Actually, I know a senator so let me get back to you on that one. You and Winston Churchill sharing the same honor...I may be a little ahead of the curve on this matter but not, I trust, by much.) Anyway, I'll be back to click on paypal unless I discover you're independently wealthy.