Ray,

1) had you been a manager at Gibson and done that you would have been arrested for inciting violence and resisting lawful authority. The proper place to fight this kind of injustice, which it definitely was IMO because otherwise I would not have brought it up, is a three pronged attack in a court of law, in the court of public opinion, and through the use of lobbyists.


2) You simply have no idea of Marco Polo do you. The ONLY reason Marco Polo could even travel the silk road was because of what is known as the Pax Mongolia which placed almost all of it under the rule of the Mongols...who kept it mostly safe for travelers and traders, and the only time he traveled by water was on the way home...on a Mongol ship. BTW, if you really know your history, you would admire the Mongols for what they accomplished, and the influence they had in spreading knowledge and know how from East to West and West to East. You would admire them for their tolerance for all religions too. You may not like how they got there, but war and conquest is an ugly business, one in which they excelled. Once they did however, they ruled their empire reasonably well.


3) Gee Ray, you are mostly right there...but I lived those years and things were, by and large pretty good. Since 1994, for 21 years now, it has been mostly flipped and Republicans are in control. Why has it not been fixed? In fact, things are worse now then when they started in 1994


If writing ever becomes work I think I'm going to have to stop