Mary & Others,

The true situation is always more complicated and less important than the press makes it seem. I can cobble together some emotionally-charged video footage and out-of-context quotes and use them to prove – well, just about anything as long as it makes people pay attention (and money) to ME. It’s a case of “Who are you going to believe, me or your own lying eyes?” I’m surprised anyone has to be told that.

The big problem with multiculturalism is that it inhibits honest discussion of problems involving “special” groups. It’s as if the “experts” in government and elsewhere don’t want public debate on the issues because they don’t trust the citizens to come to a reasonable concensus. Like the people who elected them are nothing more than a lynch mob waiting to happen. Kind of paranoid – especially in Britain, which if I understand correctly has historically been less susceptable to that kind of violence than the US. Not sure what it’s all about – what the appeal of multiculturalism is.